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on Section A Exploring current practice
The main aims of this section are:
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To review how energy is currently taught throughout teachers’ existing
science curriculum.
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To evaluate their existing teaching about energy.
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To identify particular areas of existing teaching that they would like
to address.
Notes on the activities follow:
Teachers will bring with them to the workshop their own views about energy
and how, and how not, to teach it. The views will influence the way they
react to new ideas introduced, and they will certainly want to discuss
these views with others during the workshop. This activity is therefore
an essential starting point for the workshop, as it allows teachers to
raise issues that they want to raise, to set their own agenda, and to relate
the remaining activities in the workshop to their own practice.
This activity focuses on teachers identifying problems in their existing
practice. Most teachers find energy to be a difficult topic to teach, and
many have strong views about the nature of the difficulties; it should
not be difficult to identify areas that they would like to address in their
own teaching arising out of the workshop. Indeed, it is possible that they
will identify these issues without specific prompting in the course of
Activity A1, and if this is the case then this activity could be omitted. |
