EDUC3221 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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Explain the 5e approach to teaching and learning in science. Outline the role of the teacher and students in this approach. Revision of week 3 stem: national stem strategy. The strategy identifies five key areas for national action through which school education has the greatest leverage: 1. Increasing student stem ability, engagement, participation and aspiration: 2. Increasing teacher capacity and stem teaching quality: 3. Supporting stem education opportunities within school systems: 4. Facilitating effective partnerships with tertiary education providers, business and industry: 5. Share in groups what each of these might mean and give examples. A constructivist instructional model of teaching and learning designed to facilitate conceptual change. There are numerous models of learning based on constructivism that have the following features in common: orientation, elicitation of ideas, restructuring of ideas, application of ideas, review change in ideas. Explore: hands on, look at rocks, guest speaker. Develop science explanations for experiences and representations of developing conceptual understanding.
