The Art of Teaching for Preservice Teachers is a comprehensive 20-hour introduction to the essential knowledge, skills, and mindsets required to begin a successful teaching career. This course supports educators at the start of their professional journey by exploring the foundations of pedagogy, learning theories, assessment, classroom management, and technology in education.

Participants will understand what makes an effective teacher, how students learn, and how to plan, deliver, and reflect on meaningful lessons. The course also examines learning styles, multiple intelligences, the TPACK and SAMR technology integration frameworks, and the importance of professionalism in the teaching role.

Audience

Preservice teachers, new educators, student teachers, teaching interns, and education students preparing for classroom practice.

Course Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
✔ Receive targeted guidance for starting their preservice teaching journey
✔ Understand the components that contribute to effective teaching
✔ Recognise diverse learning styles, multiple intelligences, and strategies to address them
✔ Apply the three major learning theories—Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism—to classroom practice
✔ Create purposeful lesson plans, from preparation to delivery and reflection
✔ Strengthen critical thinking through Bloom’s Taxonomy, analysis, reasoning, and problem-solving strategies
✔ Define and differentiate diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments and their tools
✔ Implement classroom management practices that reinforce positive behaviours and student responsibility
✔ Integrate technology effectively using TPACK and SAMR models, and evaluate advantages and challenges
✔ Apply professional guidelines relating to safety, diversity, confidentiality, and ethical conduct

Modules

1. What is an Effective Teacher?

2. Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

3. Overview of Learning Theories

4. Lesson Planning and Delivery

5. Critical Thinking

6. Introduction to Assessment

7. Classroom Management

8. Technology in the Classroom

9. Code of Conduct