Course title in Estonian
Keemia didaktika praktikum I
Course title in English
Practical Training in Chemistry Didactics I
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lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
- Develop students’ ability to plan and carry on studied knowledge and practise them at school.
- Support students’ subject and methodology based knowledge in real school situations.
- Compose the opportunity to develop teaching methodology and skills implement in basic school.
- Introduce different possibilities of teaching chemistry and accord them to practice at school with teacher in different lesson phases.
Brief description of the course
Students practise studied knowledge in the real school situation. They create 5 different subject based exercises/ problems, based on the course material and they get feedback from the tutor, fellow students and lecturer. Exercises carried on the school according to the individual plan (agreed upon to the tutor from the school).
Work in the classroom is in seminar form. Additionally students have to realise/carry on exercises at school.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the aims of the basic school curricula and are able to choose the methods, tools and forms for accomplish the purposes for students;
- acquaint herself/himself with education legislative documentation (PGS, RÕK, school reglementation), knows her/his duties (is able to create concept map of the general demands). With the tutor of the school familiarize with the equipment of chemistry class and lab (lab equipment, lab ware, reading material, students books etc);
- with the help of tutor, students create a work scheme for the basic school class;
- is able to create interdisciplinary connections and follow leitmotif in chemistry classes;
- follows the tutor in two school days, for recognising different parts of the lessons and make the analyse of the lessons;
- acquaint himself/herself with different information channels (e-mails, telephone, e-school ITC tools etc);
- is able to found expressive and vital exercises, prepare demonstration experiment;
- gives parts of the lesson (guidance by the tutor from the school: for example solving exercise with the class, present some demonstration experiment to the class or introducing a new theme to the students).
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