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 can see that the materials put an emphasis on developing pupils’ understanding of a wide variety of different kinds of change. In this respect, they have the potential for being useful across a whole range of topics. I’m probably being too cynical, but my concern is that increased understanding of fundamental ideas is not what tests and exams are actually testing.
B One thing that these materials have done is to help me develop my own understanding of some scientific ideas that I have not really thought about for a long time. I suppose this should mean that I am able to teach these things better, but I’m not sure it always works out that way, as teaching concepts to pupils is a very different thing. Sometimes knowing more just makes me realise how badly I’ve been teaching a topic, without helping me to do it better.
C I think that it will be necessary to have a departmental approach to the activities. Unless they are integrated into the schemes of work so that everyone is required to do them, then I think only the more committed teachers will do them. But I think it is the committed ones that will have to try them out first, so it really means that the activities will need to be incorporated a bit at a time, rather than by a radical overhaul.
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