Workshop 1
 Contents
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Section A Exploring current practice
Activity
A2 Evaluating current practice |
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Aims
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To evaluate your existing teaching about energy.
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To identify particular areas of existing teaching
that you would like to address.
Background
You may have already identified aspects of teaching
about energy that you think are problematic, and that you would like to
try to address. This activity may help to clarify these and to identify
others. Before looking at new ideas about the teaching of energy it is
helpful to look at problems with existing approaches. The new approaches
may or may not address the problems that you identify, but by defining
your own agenda, it will help to put the new ideas in perspective.
What to do
1. Working as a group, identify those aspects
of your existing teaching of energy which work well.
2. Now try to identify as many problems
as you can in the teaching of energy. These may relate to a number of factors,
for example:
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pupils’ difficulties in the understanding of the
concept
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inconsistencies in the approaches used in different
textbooks or within the same textbook
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problems with the way that the science is dealt with
at school level
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your own difficulties in understanding the science
or in explaining the science in a way appropriate to pupils
3. From your group’s list, choose one or two
that you as an individual consider to be the key difficulties.
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