Innovative methods of teaching 0800-M-NOTEPROZ

1. Traditional categories of didactical principles. Didactical tools. DIdactical methods.
2. Traditional student laboratories - examples and limitations in didactical efficiency.
3. Practical implementations of textbooks - foreign examples
4. Principles of hyper-constructivitic didactics.
5. Neo-realism: simple didactical objects.
6. Hyper-constructivistic workshops and laboratories - experimental set-ups for electromagnetism.
7. Laboratory of modern physics - from simple objects to on-line experiments.
8. Computer-guided experiments - principles of group work, basic technical standards, interfaces and sensors.
9. Ideas and implementations of interactive didactics - musea and exhibitions.
10. Multimedia text-books (Zanichelli)
11. Implementations: quantum mechanics in short.
12. Multimedia implementations in culture, history of arts, tourism.
13. Interdisciplinary methods in teaching science.
14. Teaching and language: language as the way of reproducing and shaping the reality.
15. Education as a part of culture.

Total student workload

90 working hours: 45 hours in class + case study (own work)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

W1 - knowing the fundamental concepts, principles and theories in didactics W2 - knowing the constructivistic principles of pedagogy and didactics W3 – knowing modern tools and methods of didactics W4 - fundamental knowledge of natural sciences W5 – understanding cultural environment of education

Learning outcomes - skills

U1 - ability to explain simple interdisciplinary issues on natural science, using a proper methodology U2 - ability to conduct didactics in constructivistic manner U3 - ability to find autonomously information in national and international scientific journals and in popular literature, and in internet

Learning outcomes - social competencies

K1 - knowing limits of own knowledge, ability to complete in a permanent way the own knowledge K2 - understanding the complexity of educational and pedagogical problems K3 - ability to get involved listeners, on both humanistic and scientific subjects.

Teaching methods

Open-dialog lecture Group laboratory Interactive exhibition Conversation

Observation/demonstration teaching methods

- simulation (simulation games)
- display
- exhibition

Expository teaching methods

- discussion
- narration
- problem-based lecture
- participatory lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- experimental
- WebQuest
- expert panels
- observation
- round table
- classic problem-solving
- field measurement
- case study
- brainstorming
- laboratory
- seminar
- biographical
- practical
- panel
- project work

Online teaching methods

- content-presentation-oriented methods
- methods referring to authentic or fictitious situations
- games and simulations
- integrative methods
- exchange and discussion methods
- methods developing reflexive thinking

Type of course

elective course

Prerequisites

Knowledge of fundamental issues on didactics and on science

Course coordinators

Grzegorz Karwasz

Assessment criteria

Activity in class (2/3). The case study (1/3)

Practical placement

None

Bibliography

• Monk M., Dillon J., Learning to teach physics, The Falmers Press, London, Washington, D.C., 1995
• Kruszewski K., Zmiana i wiadomość - perspektywa dydaktyki ogólnej, PWN, Warszawa, 1987
• Szydłowski H., Nauczanie fizyki a wiedza potoczna uczniów, WN UAM, Poznań, 1992
• Rogers E.M., Physics for Inquiring Minds, Oxford University Press, 1962
• Resnick R., Halliday D., Physics, University course
• Heller M., Philosophy of science - introduction, Petru Kraków, 2009 (in Polish)
• Bereźnicki F, Dydaktyka kształcenia ogólnego, Impuls, Kraków 2007
• Hewitt P G, Concpetual Phsyics, Gooreads, 2006
• Wróblewski A K, History of Physics, Wyd. Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2006 (in Polish)
• Karwasz G, Więcek M, Fizyka współczesna. Toruński po-ręcznik do fizyki, Materiały dydaktyczme Zakładu Dydaktyki Fizyki UMK, Toruń, 2011
• Karwasz G, Sadowska M, Rochowicz K, Toruński po-ręcznik do fizyki. Mechanika. Gimnazjum I klasa, Wyd. Naukowe UMK, Toruń, 2010
• Jerome S. Bruner In serach of the theory of teaching, 1964

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