Method of Teaching Informatics III

Academic unit or major

Teacher education courses

Instructor(s)

Toshiki Matsuda / Naoko Kuriyama / Kazuhiko Hatano

Class Format

Exercise (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

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Course Code

LAT.I301

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3-4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

- In this course, after revising the year plan of "Information Study I," exercises to design a unit-plan, a lesson plan, instructional materials, and a method of learner assessment are given while choosing specific unit of “Information Study by the Scientific Approach” or “Information Study for Participation in the Community,” then discussion of lesson improvement is conducted based on a microteaching. Finally, a home-work exercise to improve and complete the materials necessary to perform a lesson is given.
- Aims of this lesson are to cultivate practical problem-solving ability required as teachers in charge of “Information Study.” Every students experience the role of teachers in the microteaching once, and acquire skills of instruction including practical use of ICT as an instructional tool.

Course description and aims

Students are required to achieve following objectives:
1) Can make an appropriate year- and unit-plan and lesson plan by integrating fundamental knowledge on informatics education learned in “Studies on Method of Information Study I & II” to the method of instructional design and assessment learned in “Educational Technology for Curriculum and Lesson Design” while taking consideration with the “Warp and Woof Model of Problem Solving.”
2) Can generate various lesson plans while taking considerations with several learners’ situations and referring to a textbook, reference books, and web pages, etc., then choose better one from them to achieve learning objectives defined in the National Course of Studies effectively.
3) Can carry out the lesson according to own lesson plan while utilizing effective skills of instructions, understanding students’ situations, and making an appropriate judgment based on the teacher's decision model.
4) Recognize innovative instruction required to solve current issues and needs of Information Study education, and can make a lesson plan corresponding to the needs.

Keywords

Unit plan, lesson design, development of instructional materials, microteaching, skills of instruction, warp and woof model of problem-solving, informatical and systematical ways of viewing and thinking, internal knowledge, external knowledge, assessment criteria

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

This course consists of three 4～5-hours lessons. Students are required to complete each homework assignment until the next class. Class activities are focused on presentation (or microteaching) and discussion of the homework. Check "http://www.et.hum.titech.ac.jp/~matsuda/informatics3.html" and contact by an e-mail until the deadline.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

・National Course of Studies for the Upper Secondary Schools. (In Japanese)
・Guidebook of National Course of Studies for the Upper Secondary Schools: Informatics. (In Japanese
・Textbooks of Information Studies　(In Japanese)
・Toshiki Matsuda, Atsuko Hoshino, and Kazuhiko Hatano (2013) Lesson Improvement with Learners: Instructional Design, Method of Instruction, and Educational Assessment. Gakubunsya (In Japanese)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

・Gaming instructional materials developed in my laboratory for Information Studies
・National Institute for Educational Policy Research (2012) Sample Materials for Developing Assessment Criteria and Improving Evaluation Method of Academic Achievement: Upper Secondary Schools Level

Evaluation methods and criteria

・Students will be assessed based on ratio of attendance, exercises in the classes, homework exercises.
・Students who did not submit a homework before the class, did not improve all homework assignments after the classes, or were absent more than once lose their credit.
・Students need to attend all classes.

Related courses

• LAT.A203 ： Educational Technology
• LAT.A206 ： Curriculum Design and Management
• LAT.I201 ： Studies on Method of Information Study I
• LAT.I202 ： Studies on Method of Information Study II
• certified as “Information Study” in the teacher promotion program

Prerequisites

・Students are required to earn every credit (or have successfully finished in the same term) for related courses of LAT.
・Students are required to earn more than 18 credits for more than four areas of related courses certified as “Information Study” in the teacher promotion program.
・Students are required to send an application e-mail that includes ID, name, major program, and e-mail address to following contact address until required date announced by bulletin board and Web page of Teacher Promotion Program other than the formal application to university office.
・Part-time students who can take this course are only graduates of Tokyo Tech.
・Students who have already taken a credit of a similar course cannot take this course.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

info-ask[at]et.hum.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Please send an e-mail for appointment.

Other

・Students are required to have own facilities and abilities to perform homework by means of Office software.
・Students need to make instructional materials with paying attention to intellectual property rights enough.