Taking part
As with all UYSEG projects, we want to involve practising teachers, working closely with university-based science educators, in the development and trialling of materials. We recognise that teachers find it increasingly difficult to be released from school for development workshops, so we plan to work as far as possible through on-line discussion groups and electronic exchange of materials and ideas, working in collaboration with the National STEM Centre.
Working groups, consisting of a member of the UYSEG team working with four or five teachers, will develop a teaching module of around 12 lessons for a topic. Starting from an initial list of intended learning outcomes, they will test, refine and extend this by developing an item bank of questions and tasks that could be used by teachers to provide evidence of students’ learning. The working group will then, as a second stage, outline a teaching sequence for the module, drawing where possible on research evidence, and develop some ‘key teaching activities’ that teachers could incorporate into their own schemes of work.
There are two ways to take part in the project:
Join a working group
Joining a working group will commit teachers to taking part in the process of writing and revising the learning outcomes, the assessment items, and the teaching activities for a topic. Once some material has been developed, teachers will try them out with students and provide feedback.
Trial materials
During 2012 there will also be opportunities for other teachers to trial draft modules of work with their students and feedback on the materials.
If you would like be part of this project, then send us an email at uyseg-yorkscience@york.ac.uk, telling us something about yourself including your name, subject specialism, school address, and how you would like to be involved.