Workshop 1
 Contents
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Section G Planning
Activity
G1 Using the new ideas |
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Aims
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To plan, teach and evaluate a lesson drawing on the new ideas introduced
in these workshop materials.
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To prepare for the next workshop session by reading case-study material.
Background
Before the next session, you should try to implement in the classroom some
of the ideas that you have learned in the earlier activities. In planning
and evaluating your lesson, try to think about the ‘stories of transformations’
and how these relate to your own practice. You will be discussing
this at the next session. You will also be looking in more detail at case-study
material about teachers involved in the research on transformations of
innovation, and it will be useful to read this material before the next
session.
What to do
1. Using ideas that you have learned about in Section B, plan a lesson
about energy that fits into your existing scheme of work. Make some notes
that justify the choices you have made. Think about the ‘stories of transformation’
that you looked at in Section C, D, E and F, and how your choices have
been influences by factors such as the subject content, your beliefs about
learning, your values, and by customary practices and constraints.
You might like to look at the scheme of work for key stage 3 that has
been produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for some ideas
about teaching energy. Some extracts from this publication are given on
page 2 and page 3.
For each of Years 7, 8 and 9, two extracts are given. The full publication
is available at:
http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_science/
2. After teaching the lesson, make some notes about your evaluation
of the lesson. In the next session, you will discuss your lesson and your
evaluation with the other members of the group. You should include the
following criteria in your evaluation:
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How well do you think the scientific ideas fitted in with the other work
about energy that pupils study?
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Did the pupils appear to understand the ideas?
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What criteria did you use to assess whether pupils understood the ideas?
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Do you think that these ideas are important for pupils to learn?
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Do you think that the work helped pupils in preparation for test and examinations?
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Did you find that you needed to adopt new classroom strategies to implement
the approach?
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Did you feel uncertain about your own understanding of the scientific ideas?
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Were you limited in what you could do because of constraints in resources?
3. In preparation for the next session, it will be useful to read
one of the documents that contain case study material about teachers implementing
the innovations. One of these documents (Activity
Resource 1) relates to the ‘Energy Transfer’ innovation, and the other
(Activity Resource 2) relates to the ‘Energy
and Change’ innovation. |
