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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 some aspect
of energy.
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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 or 2) to consider in the light of their own experience.
These will be discussed in Workshop 2.
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