Innovations in Geography Teaching (NMG1O1)

  • Level of study master academic studies
  • Teacher: Ph.D. Ljiljana Živković
  • Subject status: obligatory
  • ECTS: 8
  • Semester: I
  • Number of classes: 4

To form at students skills methodical work (teaching skills and knowledge transfer). To enable students to carry out an adequate selection of didactic and methodological solutions in studying geography.  This means that students applied: different teaching methods in the teaching process: methods focused on teachers (teaching methods, illustrations, demonstrations ...) methods aimed at students (cooperative learning, learning through problem solving, interactive learning) methods aimed at curriculum (structuring content and interdisciplinary communication), innovative forms of work and teaching aids in the teaching process, in order to achieve maximum mental and practical activity of students in the classroom through a multimedia source of information in the teaching of geography.

To train students in the choice of content related to the analysis of teaching lessons at school and develop the pedagogical and methodological skills in working with students.

Application of innovations in teaching geography, Programmed instruction, Team teaching, Multimedia package, Research, Action of research, Micro Research, Realization of forms and methods using computers, The model-based approach to the use of computers in teaching geography, Selection forms of work, Choice of methods of work in learning by computer, Map as a means of gaining self-knowledge, Methodology and research methods, Research results, Didactic experiment for treatment of regional-geographical elements, Didactic experiment, research methods and the resultant of the experiment - testing, Model Active learning in geography, Active Learning, Geography contents and active learning, Production scenarios time for active learning in geography, Problem approaches in the study of geography, Activity and independence of students work during the application problem teaching, Role of teachers in problem solving, Problem-solving task in teaching geography, Aim, objectives and result research, Features and models of application of group work, Cooperative learning and quality of knowledge in geography teaching, Collaborative group work and in pairs, Students' activities in a cooperative teaching, The role of teachers in cooperative teaching, The advantages and disadvantages of cooperative teaching, Didactic value of cooperative learning in teaching geography, Development of cooperative learning, cooperative learning models, Project teaching as a form of active teaching, The difference between traditional and project-based learning, Advantages and disadvantages of project-based learning, Educational tasks of the project classes, Methods, aim, objectives and phases of project, Process independent acquisition of knowledge in the teaching of geography, Mental flexibility of students, Creativity and critical thinking, Motivation of students, Didactic games in teaching geography, Models of didactic games on computer to learn geography, Use of media in the modernization of the teaching of geography, The educational significance of media, Representation and media's role in the modernization of the teaching of geography, Methods and results of the research, Use of the press in teaching geography, Geographic magazines, Children and young press, Popular science magazines, Travel magazines, Daily and periodical press, Role of homework in the teaching of geography, Role of geography in the development of environmental awareness of students, Role of the teacher of geography in the formation of environmental awareness of students, Environmental education, School and family as a factor in environmental education, Strategy ecological education, Use of methods of learning through discovery in the study of ecological content in the teaching of geography, NGO in the function of non-formal environmental education of young people.

Živković, Lj. (2016). Inovacije u nastavi geografije – skripta. Beograd: Univerzitet u Beogradu - Geografski fakultet.

Živković, Lj., Jovanović, S, Rudić ,V., (2015). Metodika nastave geografije. Beograd: Srpsko geografsko društvo.

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Obradović, Lj. (1993). Primena inovacija u nastavi geografije u osnovnim i srednjim školama. Zbornik radova Univerziteta u Beogradu – Geografskog fakulteta. br. 42. Beograd.

Živković, Lj., Perišić, Z. (1997). Faktori moderne organizacije nastave geografije u osnovnoj školi, Teorijsko-metodološki problemi nastave geografije. Institut za geografiju Filozofskog fakulteta Univerziteta Crne Gore, Geografskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu, Nikšić-Beograd.

Jovanović, S., Živković, Lj. (2005). Upotreba medija u modernizaciji nastave geografije u Srbiji. Srbija i savremeni procesi u Evropi i svetu. Naučni simpozijum-Tara. Beograd: Univerzitet u Beogradu -  Geografski fakultet.

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