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Notes
on Section H Evaluation
The main aims of this section
are:
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To report back to the
group about their experiences
in teaching using a computer simulation or model.
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To evaluate these
experiences taking account of the
factors that affect the transformation of curriculum innovation.
Notes on the activity follow:
After teachers have had an
opportunity to teach a
trial lesson using ideas from the workshop, it is very important that
they
be given the opportunity to evaluate the lesson and to share their
ideas
with others. The activity gives explicit criteria against which the
lesson
should be evaluated. These criteria relate to the ‘Stories of
transformations’
from workshop about ‘Content’, ‘Beliefs about learning’, ‘Values’ and
‘Contexts,
customs and constraints’. Teachers are thus encouraged to make explicit
their evaluation. This may be difficult for some teachers for whom this
kind of process is not part of their usual practice. Eliciting this
kind
of thinking should be a major focus for the trainer in this activity.
In preparation for
the next workshop, after teaching
the trial lesson, teachers should evaluate the lesson against the given
criteria, and may be given case study material drawn from the STTIS
research
(Activity Resource 1)
to consider in the light
of their own experience. These will be discussed in Workshop 2.
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