Learning Goals
- Explain or describe the difference between teaching science as facts versus teaching science as a set of ideas, concepts, and practices.
- Understand that this course features principles founded on education research.
Summary
In Module One (Part 1), trainees will be introduced to the concept of active learning through a classroom case study. In the classroom case study, trainees will be analyzing two different approaches to learning about salts and solubility in two different science classrooms. The first approach emulates a lecture-based and teacher-centered class. Students are directed what to do, procedural-based, and individually focused. The second approach emulates an active learning and student-centered classroom. Students collaborate with one another and are encouraged to explore. Trainees will be asked a series of questions that compare and contrast student learning, classroom activity, and ideas and concepts learned in both classrooms. By the end of the module, trainees should be more familiar with the nature of science (NOS) and active learning, as well as how NOS can be taught to students through active learning.