TEACHING RESOURCES INFORMATION
TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Recent Trends in Natural Science Education
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
many authors - Anthology from International Conference
NAME OF PRODUCER
Pedagogical faculty, Department of Chemistry, Trnava University, Trnava
DATE OF PRODUCTION
October 2012
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Downloadable material
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium, Advanced
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Problem solving, Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Primary School, Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Czech, English, Polish, Slovak
DESCRIPTION
This publication is an Anthology from International Conference - Recent Trends in Natural Science Education which took place in Smolenice – Slovakia, October 15.-17., 2012. The anthology is divided into 11 sections with a total number of 64 contributions. Section 1 is devoted to plenary lectures and it includes 5 entries. Section 2 is about research oriented science education. It includes 6 contributions. Section 3 with 4 entries deals with a research of student science phenomena visions. Section 4 contains 5 presentations on the topic of education content and experimental methods. Section 5 covers the area of education programs and systems. It has 6 submissions. In section 6 one can learn about the graduation exam and feedback means presented. The topic is presented in 5 different ways. Section 7 informs about the use of digital technologies in science education. It contains 5 presentations. 10 presentations from section 8 are devoted to poster presenting. Education materials are dealt with in detail in 9 submissions of section 9. The topic of section 10 is training and praxis of science teachers. It has 5 posts as well as section 11 devoted to the evaluation of teaching and non-formal education. While this was a scientific conference each entry has an abstract, references and biography in English. The whole anthology is available in pdf form online. All contributions can be read and commented on here. If wished, authors can be contacted. Teacher training is a topic discussed in detail in section 10 as well as mentioned in few other sections, 3 articles focus on chemistry teacher training.
COMMENTS
One of the key publications on the training of teachers in science subjects aimed primarily at teaching chemistry while the conference organizer was the Department of Chemistry at the Pedagogical Faculty of Trnava University. In terms of project Chemistry needs the anthology covers all project area from student motivation through teacher training to the use of ICT in teaching chemistry. The first section presents a few key lectures on the topic of teacher training e.g. Dydaktyka chemistry, Chemistry teacher preparation for the implementation of project teaching in relation to the promotion of chemistry, Teacher that turns learning into a joy of learning science, as well as Computer-supported school chemistry experiment as a tool of research-oriented teaching (the authors are not mentioned because the information can be looked up). In section 2 the examples are: Implementing research-tuned concept of science education in teaching chemistry at secondary level of elementary schools, Experience and perspective of the implementation research-tuned concept of science education in Slovakia and neighboring countries, and so on. In Section 4 it is for example: Model experiment: the way to refine generally reported errors in chemistry as well as special tasks in the laboratory classes of analytical chemistry etc. Many contributions are from other sections e.g. sections 7, 8 and 9, for example: The use of interactive board in elementary school chemistry teacher work, Iron, ferrous alloys and their products - the multimedia teaching system, Evaluation methods and feedback tools of project teaching etc. All contributions are not mentioned, it is not necessary while they are all available in the anthology and can be found out and commented on.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
TRANSFER Slovensko
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