BIOLOGY EDUCATION BCB HONOURS 2011

BIOLOGY EDUCATION MODULE DESCRIPTOR

27 June – 1 July 2011

PCK as an approach to teaching

1)    Lee Shulman (2009). Those who understand: Knowledge Growth in teaching.

2)    DoE (2011) CAPS: Life Science

3)    Life Science Concepts in FET syllabus

4)    The Lorax _Dr. Seass

5)    DVDs available in the library

Assessments:

1)    Story retell on “The Lorax”

2)    Applying the story to a modern day example

Conceptual Change

1)    Learning styles, who are our students (generation what?)

2)    “What is Biology” – one page write up by Lorna Holtman

3)    Evolution survey

4)    Conceptual change from Lorna’s PhD dissertation

5)    Conceptual Revolutions – Paul Thagard Chapter on evolution

6)    Watch DVD on MDR TB on Evolution DVD

5E model

1)    5E model: Example of footprints activity

2)    Lamarck, Darwin and Wallace articles on applying the 5E model

3)    Published article on using the 5E model

Week of 5 July 2011

ITC integration

1)    Andre Daniels various tools and concept map software

Curriculum design and Assessment and Norms/Values

1)    Teaching and Learning Policy

2)    Graduate Attributes

3)    Assessment Policy

4)    Bloom’s Taxonomy and assessment and evaluation (including observations)

5)    Using rubrics and providing feedback to large classes and to individual students on learning

6)    Curriculum design and lesson planning (lesson plan format and examples)

Assessment

1)    Collect an example of a question paper from any undergraduate course and apply what you have learnt above and provide an opinion of whether the higher order levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy have been used in the development of the question paper.

Week of 11 July 2011

Case studies

1)    What is a case study and examples

2)    How to write a case study

3)    Worldmapper, TED, The Times and Gapminder as a source of data and information for case studies.

Assessment

1)    Writing your own cases and designing a lesson plan to teach it

Week of 18 July 2011

Wrapping up