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The
structure of the workshops
The first workshop is designed to help teachers to
plan and teach a trial lesson about energy using materials related to the
innovations. In a second workshop they will evaluate this trial lesson,
drawing on research findings. They will build on the experience of the
trial lesson about energy in order to plan more extended sequences of lessons
within the schemes of work.
To support teachers’ in planning the trial lesson,
in the first workshop they will:
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review their current practice on the teaching of
energy;
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learn more about the curriculum innovations;
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review some of the research findings through 'stories'
about teachers' implementation of the innovation;
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plan a trial lesson that takes account of the aspects
above.
The activities in this workshop are grouped into
the following sections:
To support them in evaluating the trial lesson and
in further planning, in this workshop they will:
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review and evaluate the trial lesson;
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learn more about research work through examples of
case studies, relating these and their own experiences to the general findings
of the research;
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consider again the factors that affect their planning
choices and review the appropriateness of teaching sequences on energy.
The activities in this workshop are grouped into
the following sections:
The following notes on each of the sections give
additional information to the trainer on running the teacher activities.
The activities themselves are accompanied by extensive notes addressed
to the teacher on the aims of each activity, background information and
rationale, and detailed instructions on what to do. These notes do not
repeat this information, and trainers should read the notes alongside the
activities themselves. The purpose of these notes is to point to specific
aspects of each activity that should be brought out in discussion. The
notes will refer at appropriate points to the Briefing
Sheets that trainers can draw on for additional information.
As far as possible, activities have been designed
to be as independent as possible, in order that trainers can adapt and
select activities as appropriate to the interests and needs of different
groups of teachers. Where activities do require earlier activities to have
been done, then this is indicated in the notes below. In this set of materials,
two curriculum innovations are addressed, and the activities have been
designed so that it is possible to use them in workshops that address either
one of the innovations, or both. For the activities related to the
‘Energy transfer’ innovation, which are relatively modest in scope, each
of the first and second workshops should last about half a day. For the
‘Energy and Change’ innovation, where learning about the innovation itself
takes a substantial amount of time, the first workshop would require a
whole day session or two half-day sessions, with another half-day for the
second workshop.
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