Syllabus
1. Project teaching - principles, advantages and difficulties, the role of teacher and student, definition of terms
2. Research-oriented teaching at home and abroad
3. Project day for school - methodology and experience from implementation, function of coordinator of environmental education
4. Projects focused on energy saving, Recycling
5. Projects focused on cooperation and relationships in a team, international program Eco-school (Ekocentrum Tereza)
6. Modeling of scientific research of the surroundings, field teaching, international program Globe (Ekocentrum Tereza)
7. City in your pocket - Microclimate around the school (Ekocentrum Koniklec), regional teaching and locally based learning
8. Forest in school, school in forest (Ekocentrum Tereza), regional textbooks, peer learning
9. Composting in school gardens (Ekodomov)
10. Creation of students' own projects - design, introduction, theoretical preparation
11. Presentation of projects, feedback and reflection (possible verification within pedagogical practices, cooperation with faculty teachers) In the case of online teaching, there will be up-to-date information and materials in Google Classroom
Annotation
The course develops the knowledge and skills acquired in the basic lecture Didactics of Biology and Natural History and in the Exercises in Didactics of Biology and Natural History. Students will get acquainted in detail with the principles and methods of project teaching and research-oriented teaching and other activating teaching methods, the principles of locally grounded learning and selected methods of critical thinking development.
They will learn to apply the knowledge in a suitable way in the teaching of science subjects. They will try activity-oriented and research teaching in the presence and online way.
They will also get acquainted with the possibilities of using project teaching in the teaching of interdisciplinary relationships, cross-sectional topics and in environmental education, as well as with suitable ways of evaluating school projects. They will get acquainted with examples of international programs (eg Globe and Eco-school), short-term, medium-term, long-term and school-wide projects and with the possibilities of cooperation with eco-centers and ecological education centers.
During the course, students will design their own project, to which they will receive feedback and possibly try to implement it according to current modern trends in teaching. Students will also acquire competencies for distance and online teaching, digital competencies and competencies for practical experimental teaching.
Current development of the subject, including materials, can be found by students in Google Classroom.