Course title
総合的な学習の時間の指導法   [Teaching method of comprehensive learning period]
Course category teaching profession licensure courses  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department Faculty of Agriculture  Year 1  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code V0027
Instructor(s)
朝岡 幸彦   [ASAOKA Yukihiko]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
“Period for Integrated Studies” is the most suitable area to practice “Active Learning”. “Active Learning” is the teaching method for learners to learn more actively. Schools provide the learning tasks that are considered to be appropriate for achieving students’ goals by utilizing the community’s feature. In most cases, school students decide the theme independently. In this class, participants will consider the educational effect of “Active Learning” by considering the better teaching method, make a teaching plan and practice the plan at zoo.
Expected Learning
Achieve the skill of making and practicing the teaching plan that fits the objective by considering what ability that can be cultivated and by understanding how to practice activities at “Period for Integrated Studies”.
Course schedule
(1)What is “Period of Integrated Studies”? Learn about “Period of Integrated Studies” at junior high school and high school.
The first goal of “Period of Integrated Studies” at high school is “To aim nurturing attributes and abilities of identifying and solving problems considering one’s way of life. They will nurture those abilities by practicing cross-sectional and integrated studies by functioning the sense of exploration”. Also, “the ability to find problems through social involvement, setting tasks, collecting and sorting information, and expressing it” is required. Participants of this class will understand the aim of “Period of Integrated Studies” and will learn how to make the teaching plan, contents and evaluation.
(2)Experience nature environment activities.
(3)Participate, observe, evaluate Zoo learning program. This program will be conducted in some groups.
Participants will experience program for visitors (children and parents) of zoo and will observe and evaluate the program.
Learn about the animals in zoo.
Understand the manner, rules and the way to correspond in emergency situation.
(4)Discuss about the evaluation, teaching guidance and improvements on “Period of Integrated Studies” and summarize your opinion.
Prerequisites
Participating the field study at zoo and Zoo-education in zoo is mandatory.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Educational guidelines (elementary, junior high and high school)
References
Yukihiko Asaoka et al. (2016) “Introductory to new practice of environmental education” Tsukuba Shobo.
Assessment/Grading
Assignment will be given in each section of the course.
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2/25/2020 11:15:26 AM