Guide
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Introduction
to Trainers' Guide
The Overview section at the beginning of these materials
gave some brief information about the nature of the innovations and the
research, and about the workshop materials. These ideas are expanded on
below with references to the trainers’ Briefing
Sheets and the teachers’ Activity Resources
where more information can be found. These notes also address the rationale
of the workshops, the aims and structure of each workshop, and include
detailed notes on the individual activities.
In STTIS's research framework any act of communication
is necessarily transformative. Communications are not simply 'received'
but are re-made, re-constituted, transformed by the receiver. The project's
main objective is to investigate science teachers' transformations of educational
innovations. Small-scale intensive studies in the participant countries
have led to the elaboration of some rules of transformation of innovation
and in the development of relevant materials for teacher training. Further
information about the STTIS project can be found in Briefing
sheet 1 ‘About the STTIS project’.
The training materials presented here are based
on research into the nature of teachers’ transformations of two innovations
in the teaching of energy. One is the large scale introduction of the concept
of 'energy transfers' in the National Curriculum for England and Wales.
The other is the smaller scale curriculum development project 'Energy and
Change'.
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