Module EDUM039 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EDUM039: Secondary Chemistry Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module introduces students to current thinking in the teaching of chemistry and develops students’ pedagogic and academic subject knowledge in the field of chemistry education. Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that key elements of the module include:
• Lecture and Seminar Programme: This covers the theory and practice of secondary science pedagogy.
• Directed Online Study Programme: This covers the theory and practice of secondary science pedagogy.
• Peer Teaching: These sessions give you an opportunity to practice your teaching in a safe and supportive environment.
• Seminar Days: Five days when students return to the university to share school-based work experiences and develop the links between the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching chemistry.
On the Secondary PGCE, you will learn and reflect on the skills and knowledge required by the programme’s credit-bearing and non-credit bearing modules throughout the year. You will need to think about the modules in relation to each other. To facilitate this, the learning and teaching activities and guided independent study described below are scheduled to occur across all three terms both in the context of your university taught course and in the context of your applied professional experience in schools.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 101 | 199 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 78 | Lectures; Science Lecture Programme |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | Peer teaching |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 12 | Seminar Days |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 1 | Tutorials with academic tutor |
| Guided independent study | 199 | Independent Study |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Web based and electronic resources: see PGCE Secondary Science page on ELE ( http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/ )
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Alsop, S., Bencze, L. & Pedretti, E. (2005) Analysing exemplary science teaching: theoretical lenses and a spectrum of possibilities for practice. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Bishop, K. & Denley, P. (2007) Learning Science Teaching: Developing a professional knowledge base. Maidenhead: Open University Press
Driver, R. (2015) Making sense of secondary science: research into children's ideas. Abingdon: Routledge.
Jones, A., Reed, R. & Weyers, J. (2012) Practical Skills in Biology. Harlow: Pearson. Kind, V. and Taber, K. (2005) Science: Teaching School Subjects 11-19. London: Routledge
Kulgemeyer, C. (2018). Towards a framework for effective instructional explanations in science teaching. Studies in Science Education, 54(2), 109-139.
Liversidge, T. (2009) Teaching Science: Developing as a Reflective Secondary Teacher. London: Sage.
Millar, R. (2005) Teaching about energy. University of York.
Nott, M., & Wellington, J. (1993). Your nature of science profile: an activity for science teachers. School Science Review, 75, 109-109.
Osborne, J. & Dillon, J. (2010) Good practice in science teaching: what research has to say. (2nd Edition). Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Ratcliffe, M. & Grace, M. (2003) Science education for citizenship: teaching socio-scientific issues. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Taber, K. (Ed) (2012) Teaching Secondary Chemistry (2nd Edition) London: Hodder Education
Toplis, R. (Ed) (2015) Learning to Teach Science in the Secondary School (4th edition) (London: Routledge)
Wellington, J. and Ireson, G (2018) Science Learning, Science teaching. (4th edition). London: Routledge
