TEACHING SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Catalog description

This course is designed to facilitate the development of preservice middle and secondary school science teachers. Fundamental to middle and secondary school science teaching is an understanding of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and methodologies appropriate for science learning in secondary school. During this course students participate in hands-on activities, group discussions, presentations, pedagogical analyses and curriculum development. This course particularly focuses on nature of science, conceptual change and student misconceptions, ambitious science teaching, engineering design and STEM, issues-based instruction and teaching diverse learners and using technology to plan, teach, assess and analyze assessment data.