Science Teacher Training
in an Information Society
Teaching about energy
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Science Teacher Training
in an Information Society |
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Workshop 1
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StoriesA I’m not sure how we were expected to implement this change in the teaching of energy. When the National Curriculum first came out, I don’t think that we really noticed what was being said, and we certainly didn’t understand it. There wasn’t any supporting documentation or any training to help in a new approach. Even if there was, I’m not sure we would have had time to have taken advantage of it anyway.
B I have read a lot about how to teach about energy. I am keen to implement this new ‘energy transfer’ approach, but this is not the way that it is done in my school’s schemes of work. I am new to the school, and so I don’t feel very comfortable about departing from them. I don’t think it would be very easy to persuade the department to change the schemes of work either.
C The ‘forms of energy’ approach was the way that I was taught about it when I was at school, and I have taught it this way myself now for several years. I now feel quite confident about teaching energy which I certainly didn’t when I started. I’m always quite keen to try out new ideas, but I’m reluctant to change my teaching about energy as it seems such a difficult topic.
D Basically, I think that we are very influenced in our department by the textbooks that we have. When it comes to teaching about energy, they all seem to have their own particular approach, so this makes it quite difficult to choose what to use from different books without confusing the pupils. All the ones we use seem to talk about forms of energy, so if we didn’t teach pupils about that then they wouldn’t understand them. We also have to think about what is in the exam board’s syllabus and in the exams.
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