I want to determine the general basis for grading the quality of a modern science lesson.
The qualities of an excellent 21st-century science lesson
1. Make The knowledge relevant
2. Teach through the disciplines
3. Simultaneously develop lower and higher-order thinking skills.
4. Encourage transfer of learning
5. Teach students to learn how to learn
6. Address misunderstandings directly
7. Promote teamwork as a process and outcome
8. Make full use of technology to support learning
9. Foster students’ creativity
The qualities of an excellent 21st-century science lesson
1. Make The knowledge relevant
2. Teach through the disciplines
3. Simultaneously develop lower and higher-order thinking skills.
4. Encourage transfer of learning
5. Teach students to learn how to learn
6. Address misunderstandings directly
7. Promote teamwork as a process and outcome
8. Make full use of technology to support learning
9. Foster students’ creativity
An excellent 21st Century science lesson is not limited by time, location or role stereotypes. It is an opportunity for students to develop their understanding and capabilities through inquiry where they are guided by a teacher but the also have a degree of autonomy. There is a common purpose but also room for individuality. There is a hard science content but it is blended with soft social skills.
Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman added a reply
1 day ago
Get students to test hypotheses?
What about creating hypothesis? Is it only the teachers' task?
Today's students are highly developed users of media and demand high quality visual and practical stimuli to engage them.
1) highlight the relevance of the work to be undertaken to their real world ’why does it matter to me’
2) students are engaged, enthused and excited to know and record the outcomes
Hi Moses. When engaging students you bring their world to them and magnify it for them. They want to be ’edutained’ I called it when I was a Principal. There are many ways. One of the projects I got involved with was a space project.
Black hole data was constantly collected and students were engaged to see what it was. 😮
Interestingly it was broadened to an arts project.
Look at the interest of primary students when they were part of Tim Peake’s programme.
They require layers of learning and media offers this. Show them how their phones work via communications and track it back to the genesis of communications. It's so exciting. The java cable races across the Pacific.
In biology the opportunity f exploring plant growth and having an allotment. So good for the less engaged. They can have a slow cam frame by frame growth of potatoes and the rivers. Watching how sinflowrsreact to light. Yet we continue to serve them up a stidyidet and wonder why they get board.
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