Mth3004 Lecture 10

  • Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) means knowing how to teach subject content - a blend of pedagogy and subject knowledge.
    • Understanding where misunderstanding certain topics come from - knowing why they’re easy/hard.
    • Knowledge of the relationship between content and the children - common conceptions, misconceptions, and difficulties.
    • Knowledge of the relationship between content and the curriculum - sequence and structure of content.
    • Knowledge of the relationship between content and teaching - strategies, pedagogical techniques, and ways of modelling/representing/explaining knowledge to address learning needs.
    • Helps understand key points that need to be questioned and strengthened without assuming student knowledge.