TEACHING SCIENCE: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
| Title | ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΩΝ: ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΑΞΗ / TEACHING SCIENCE: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE |
| Code | ΥΕ-7 |
| Faculty | Education |
| School | Primary Education |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Fani Seroglou |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Inactive |
| Course ID | 80003905 |
| Academic Year | 2016 – 2017 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600039307
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Class Schedule
| Building | Παιδαγωγική Σχολή (Πύργος) |
| Floor | Όροφος 1 |
| Hall | ΑΙΘΟΥΣΑ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ 1ου ΟΡ. (177) |
| Calendar | Παρασκευή 12:00 έως 15:00 |
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
- Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600039307
- Other: http://atlaswiki.wetpaint.com
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
After the end of the course student-teachers are able to:
1. Study, analyze and evaluate recorded science teachig activities performed by pupils and themselves or their colleagues.
2. Design and perform science activities in the classroom.
3. Work smoothly with pre- and in-service teachers in a primary school in order to prepare and teach in science courses.
4. Design and develop teaching material and use it in the science classroom.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course consists of workshops that introduce future teachers to science teaching, to the norms, the rhythms, the conditions of didactical transpositions elaborated in science classrooms through the use of a variety of teaching strategies.
The course is carried out in three phases. In the first series of workshops, future teachers attend, discuss and analyse videotaped science lessons taking place in greek primary schools in real classroom situations. In the second phase, they prepare their own science sessions and teach them in greek primary schools. Finally, in the third set of workshops future teachers attend, study and analyse their own videotaped sessions.
During the course the theories of science education are gradually realised and tested in classroom applicability providing fruitful feedback for theory-practice didactical adjustments.
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Book
- educational wiki
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
During the lectures powerpoint and prezi slideshows are presented as well as videoptated teaching sessions form science classrooms. Students produce audiovisual teaching material and audio- or video-tape their teaching sessions in the classroom. During the semester all communication about the course is supported by an educational wiki and by e-mail.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 9 | 0.3 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Seminars | 15 | 0.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Laboratory Work | 15 | 0.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 20 | 0.7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Internship | 30 | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interactive Teaching in Information Center | 10 | 0.3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Written assigments | 20 | 0.7 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Artistic creation | 30 | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| presentation | 1 | 0.0 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 150 | 5 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students are evaluated for the design, application and self-evaluation of a series of activities for the science classroom that they have developed. After teaching in a real classroom they present a portfolio with the designed activities, the developed teaching activities, a self-evaluation report and audio or audiovisual files of their teaching intervention.
Student Assessment methods
- Oral Exams (Formative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Report (Formative, Summative)
- activity design and classroom teaching (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Τίτλος συγγράμματος: Διδάσκαλοντας φυσικές επιστήμες
Συγγραφέας: Michael Matthews
Εκδοτικός Οίκος: Επίκεντρο
Κωδικός βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 14931
Additional bibliography for study
Σέρογλου, Φ. (2006) Φυσικές επιστήμες για την εκπαίδευση του πολίτη, Επίκεντρο, Θεσσαλονίκη
Σταυρίδου, Ε. (2000) Συνεργατική μάθηση στις φυσικές επιστήμες: Μια εφαρμογή στο δημοτικό σχολείο, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Θεσσαλίας, Βόλος.
Last Update
20-12-2016
