Category: Teaching physics
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 5 – Empirically-based instructional design
So far in this series of blogs, I have discussed some theoretical frameworks and then, using the properties of matter strand of physics looked at how the policy and programmatic curricula in a jurisdiction could be set out to support effective classroom curriculum making by teachers and groups of teachers…
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 4 – Matter matters!
In this blog I would like to consider the purpose and content of a properties of matter strand in a science curriculum. It follows on from the previous blogs in the series where I set out some theoretical background, a case study from early in my career, and some observations…
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 3 – Learning from elsewhere
In the first two blogs in this series, I have discussed some of the theoretical frameworks that can be used in curriculum and instructional design and then a case study describing the development of a research informed unit on the particle theory of matter. In this blog I would like…
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 2 – An early case study
In my previous blog, the first in a short series, I set out some background to the process of curriculum making and instructional design. In this next instalment I will describe a significant piece of research-informed curriculum and instructional design I undertook relatively early in my career in the early…
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 1 – Some background
This is the first in a short series of linked blogs where I muse on curriculum making and instructional design. I will provide some theoretical background as an introduction and then in subsequent blogs delve more deeply into some aspects in detail. Reflecting my background, most of the detail will…
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Learning from the other side of the world
In October, alongside a trip to see my daughters in Australia, I arranged to visit in person several people from the education world in both Australia and New Zealand who I had met previously, mostly online. They in turn arranged various visits and meetings where I was able to meet…
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Scotland’s unconventional turn on electric current
Every now and again amongst Scottish physics teachers the topic of why electron flow rather than conventional current is commonly used to teach electric circuits flares up. This post is a summary of some investigations I made to try and find out what might sit behind that decision. Probably the…
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