Ease the transition to teaching science to secondary pupils during the COVID-19 pandemic with online and offline approaches.
- Duration2 weeks
- Weekly study3 hours
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Teaching for Home Learning: Secondary Science
Overcome the challenges of teaching science remotely to your secondary students
Due to COVID-19 related school closures around the world, many teachers are having to adjust their teaching.
Whilst teaching remotely may be new, this course will help you to develop new online and offline teaching strategies for supporting learning at home and at a distance. You’ll consider the issues of student engagement, time management, assessment and feedback, and the role of parents, as well as how to keep up with practical science activities.
You’ll draw upon the resources you already have, use a variety of asynchronous teaching and learning tools, and collaborate with other teachers in designing teaching sequences.
Syllabus
Week 1
From 1 Jun 2020
Asynchronous learning
Setting expectations
Being clear about expectations, and involving students and parents in your planning, can ease the transition into remote teaching. What does the research say?
Blending synchronous and asynchronous learning
Different approaches to remote learning suit different types of content and students. How do we get the mix right?
Asynchronous teaching
How can we structure asynchronous activities to make best use of the advantages, and support students with some of the difficulties?
Teaching strategies: asynchronous
There are some teaching techniques that we use a lot in the classroom. How can we carry out an online version of these activities?
Week 2
From 8 Jun 2020
Independent learning and practical science
Teaching strategies: synchronous
How do you structure a live online session to meet the needs of students?
Assessment for learning
Supporting students to work independently can improve learning outcomes, focusing on getting students to reflect on their learning and the progress they’re making.
Virtual experiments
Science is a practical subject. How do we continue to develop enquiry-based skills?
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Design an approach to teaching secondary science, with offline and online activities to support students learning from home
- Evaluate a range of teaching strategies and tools, appropriate to your teaching context and teaching remotely
- Develop assessment and feedback opportunities to support home learning
- Reflect on the role of parents in supporting home learning
Who is the course for?
This is a professional development course designed for teachers of science to students aged 11-19 years who are providing support for students to learn at home.
Heads of science departments may also find this course useful for devising their approach to home teaching.
Who will you learn with?
I taught science for ten years and was Head of Science for three years, before becoming a subject specialist at the National STEM Learning Centre.
Online CPD Coordinator, STEM Learning. MEng MA Senior Certified Learning Technologist. I work with expert authors to design impactful CPD for teachers and STEM Ambassadors www.stem.org.uk/online-cpd
Who developed the course?
National STEM Learning Centre
The National STEM Learning Centre provides world-class professional development activities and resources to support the teaching of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.
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