Teaching Methodology and Didactics in Biology WB-BI-SP-DSB2
Topics:
- Student-Centered Methods for Teaching Biology.
- Making Labs Fun and Interesting.
- Technology in the Classroom.
- Testing and Grading Students.
- Understanding your teaching style and writing a teaching statement.
- Developing a learning activity,lecture, or lab in a well informed and systematic way
The final mark is a comosition of presenting two practical lessons; works placed on googledocs platform; the mark in practicy book and test concerned with main ideas presented during classes.
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
General educational effects:
Students should:
1. possess psychological and pedagogical knowledge,
2. possess knowledge of methodology and didactics and practical influences,
3. possess ability and competences to carry out school's tasks concerned with didactics, carrying and bringing up,
4. be able to study himself and improve his own pedagogical demands,
5. be able to communicate through different techniques and use them in learning processes,
6. be ethically sensitive to others needs, open-minded, reflexives and responsible,
7. be well prepared to do teachers job,
Bibliography
1. Alavi, Christine (Ed), (1995). Problem-based Learning in a Health Sciences Curriculum. Routledge, 228 pp.
2. Barrows, H. (l996). What Your Tutor May Never Tell You, Springfield, IL: SIU School of Medicine.
3. Barrows, H. (l988). The Tutorial Process. Springfield, IL: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
4. Nickerson, R.S., Perkins, D.N., Smith, E.E. (1985). The Teaching of Thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, London.
5. Marjorie Louisa Gardner. Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education (Chap. 3 "Biology Education Research: A View from the Field") 366 pgs.
6. Wilkerson, L., & Gijselaers, W.H. (eds) (1996). Bringing Problem-Based Learning to Higher Education: Theory and Practice, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers
7. Shawn M. Glynn, Russell H. Yeany, Bruce K. Britton. The Psychology of Learning Science (Chap. 8 "Children's Biology: Studies on Conceptual Development in the Life Sciences") 272 pgs.
8. Clyde Freeman HerreidDon't! What Not to Do When Teaching Cases http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/teaching/dont.html
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