Topic | Reading assignment (1)a (individual, short) | Planning assignment (3)a (small groups, long, individual reflection) |
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Goals of biology teaching | – | A-P1b: Analyzing the learning goals and teaching strategies in one of the teachers’ learning activities, planning and explaining changes in the activity and/or goals, and describing the relations to the biology curriculum goals |
Promotion of students’ interest in biology using students’ questions | A-Rb: Pre-reading of an article on students’ interests and questions in science teaching (Baram-Tsabari & Hagay, 2009) | A-P2b: Planning a teaching and learning unit based on students’ interests as indicated by their questions prior to learning, including analysis of students’ questions and alignment with the national curriculum |
“Learning for understanding” (Perkins & Blythe, 1994) and formative assessment | – | A-P3b: Discussion in small groups, and submitting, individually, one of the following: a. planning a teaching unit according to the “Learning for understanding” approach (Perkins & Blythe, 1994), b. planning and using concept maps as an understanding performance or formative assessment, c. analyzing an example of formative assessment used in class in the “Learning for understanding” framework |