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https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=EMNK20&collegejaar=2025&taal=enOmschrijving
Teaching Physics 2 deepens your knowledge of Physics in secondary education. You will learn more about how to teach Physics to students from different backgrounds and learning strategies.Central topics are:
The teacher as a designer. The design of a standard and a modern practicum and making use of a modern beta-didactic approach in physics practicum and assignments are discussed. The student carries out a number of assignments for this part and reports on the results achieved in the class.
Physics testing/assessment. Assessment occupies an important place in education. During this part, various test forms are discussed, as well as assessment and evaluation thereof. Criteria for targeted testing and evaluation, for product and process are discussed. The student takes a test, assesses the test and evaluates it in school practice.
Teaching methods and differentiation. Work continues on the repertoire of working methods in the physics lessons. The student learns to introduce subjects from modern physics to the students in an activating way. Inquiry-based learning and gamification as a basis for differentiation is elaborated for the learning of physics.
Modern resources. The physics teacher is confronted with modern technology and developments that have also entered education, such as the use of videos, applets and games as teaching strategies. The students will learn about ‘How do you deal with this’ and ‘what can you do with it in your lessons?
Socio-scientific Issues (SSI)), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Citizenship Skills. Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are controversial societal issues related to science. SSI (e.g. climate change, genetic engineering, the use of laughing gas among young people, etc.) are incorporated into science education to promote scientific literacy. It emphasizes the ability to apply scientific and moral reasoning to real-world situations.
In 2015, The SD Agenda set out 17 goals, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), aiming to guide all countries in the world for a better and more sustainable future. SDG- 4, Quality Education, addresses the quality of education and aims to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed for SD and global citizenship by 2030 Education is the essential means of helping to curb SD issues in the upcoming years. Implementing SSI into science lessons and developing citizenship skills (e.g. argumentation, reasoning, and evidence-based decision making) are suggested by several researchers as an effective way to achieve the SDGs. After this part, the student can develop a lesson using current socio-scientific issues to educate the SDGs.
In this course, some assignments need to be enacted in a secondary education class. Therefore, having an internship or access to a class (e.g. previous internship, personal contacts, etc.) while taking this course will be necessary for the students to be able to complete the assignments.
Doelstellingen
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:- formulate a vision for teaching physics and act accordingly.
- demonstrate familiarity with different types of assessment
- construct and analyze various types of exercises/tests.
- use different activating teaching methods with different beta-didactic principles effectively in their physics lessons.
- demonstrate familiarity with modern physics in the physics curriculum and can design an appropriate and activating lesson
- design, implement and evaluate (modern) practicum for physics in secondary education.
- give and receive feedback on their own actions in the classroom.
- demonstrate familiarity with socio-scientific issues (SSI) and can use SSI to promote understanding of scientific content and citizenship skills within physics practice.