Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
STEM Teaching: Teaching Science Beyond The Boundaries
This STEM teaching course provided a practical insight into how interdisciplinary science teaching can be developed and supported within a school, and how it can be used to enrich the curriculum for all students
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Lynda Dunlop
Senior Lecturer in Science Education
University of York
Peter Fairhurst
Curriculum Specialist in Science Education
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the nature of science, its place in society and on how we form rational decisions on big societal questions.
- Explain the role of interdisciplinary teaching in equipping young people with skills necessary to make evidence-informed decisions.
- Discuss what successful interdisciplinary teaching looks like and how barriers, which prevent it, can be overcome.
- Describe how interdisciplinary teaching could be successfully embedded into your own practice or school.
- Apply resources and approaches from the research project ‘Science Beyond the Boundaries’ to explore a big societal question, or questions, through an interdisciplinary approach with your own learners.
Syllabus
- Introduction to interdisciplinary teaching and its impact on how students respond to the sciences and their place in the human decision making process.
- Strategies and practices that lead to successful interdisciplinary teaching to address important societal questions.
- Challenges to interdisciplinary teaching and how these might be overcome.
- Interdisciplinary teaching in practice - real examples from the research project ‘Science Beyond the Boundaries.’
Issued on 26th May 2024
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