Methodologies and Practices for Understanding Pedagogy

1. According to what Chris argues, a necessary condition for effectiveness as a teacher is regular reflection on the three elements that make up teaching practice:

1.1. The emotional and intelectual selves of the teacher and students.

1.2. The conditions which affect classrooms, shools and students, learning and achievement.

1.3. The conditions which affect classrooms, shools and students, learning and achievement. The experience of teaching and learning.

2. Formative assessment is investigated by Beverley Bell and Bronwen Cowie because it is one of the important teaching areas for teachers as it influences what teachers and students see as direct actions in a teaching and learning environment.

3. The achievement of efficiency in practice is achieved through observation, reflection and investigation of pedagogical practice favoring the teaching-learning process.

4. Max´s highlights the value of exploring new ways of seeing pedagogy through the eyes of students.

5. Jeff Northfield, teaching is something that requires the consent of students to want to learn.

6. Metacognition.

7. Experimentation.

8. Increase Awareness.

9. Stimulation.

10. Promote Evaluation.

11. The teacher must have different ways of teaching and approaches that adapt to the particular ways of learning.

12. Research and Practice

13. Alister's examines teaching intentions and teaching actions

14. Practice and research are linked to achieve clear approaches in the educational field.

15. The teacher must be trained to plan, monitor and evaluate.

16. Researching Teaching for Understanding

16.1. Some teachers are insecure about educational theories because they do not help them with everyday teaching concerns.

16.2. Knowledge of the curriculum.

16.3. Knowledge of the degree of understanding of the students.

16.4. Understanding of strategies for teaching.

16.5. Strategies to assess the degree of learning.

17. Teachers must be trained to match previous knowledge with new ideas and educational findings.

18. The research has four stages: planning, implementing, observing and reflecting.

19. “Reflection is effective when it leads the teacher to make meaning from the situation in ways that enhance understanding so that she or he comes to see and understand the practice setting from a variety of view points”. (Loughran, 2002, p.36).

20. Investigating teaching through context

21. Richar White reflects on his involvement in teaching research and how methodologies and practices have changed over the years and the importance of this change in developing our understanding of the complex nature of teaching and learning.