LESSON PLANNING GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

  G.A. Boszhigitova (Astana, Kazakhstan) |    Download article

Lesson planning for student teachers is often regarded in technical terms, merely as the means to ensure effective classroom performance. This approach limits the possibilities that the process of lesson planning offers to the development of professional competence among student teachers. In particular, student teachers need to develop their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), the capacity to make pedagogical choices that are logically derived from content and contextual knowledge. Knowledge how to plan lessons is often regarded as technical or instrumental knowledge.