THE ART OF EFFECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHING by mehwish dc

HOW TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH SCIENCE THROUGH PEGAGOGIC STRATEGIES

anidadecastro — 2018-05-03 13:52:46 UTC

It is with saying that pegagogy is how a teacher promotes the art of teaching to his/her students.

One strategy is by incorporating an open discussion with the students and creating an idea of an open and free environment in order for students to warm up to the concept of learning science.

Another is integrating instructional materials especially through the use of media in creating a new perspective for the students.

Several models and replicas can be introduced in order to promote collaboration and generation of new foundations of knowledge for the students which grants them the opportunity to walk in the shoes of an actual experience with the models to be presented.

And lastly, the teacher needs to be equipped with the strategy of being not only flexible but fluid. It is with saying that flexibility is the ability to bend against the current. But add in fluidity into the mix where one can contain itself in any form, a teacher os granted to become a jack of all trades which creates a viewpoint for the students to understand that a teaher is human too but is the facilitator and shepherd, so to say, of the class.

anidadecastro — 2018-05-03 14:23:52 UTC

anidadecastro — 2018-05-03 14:36:03 UTC

Creating Art through Science

anidadecastro — 2018-05-03 14:39:34 UTC

A teacher must thoroughly prepare and pace herself for the lesson to be taught.

The first strategy can be done by researching for the best ways to introduce her craft to her students. For example, the types of stars can be her subject and research can come through these two parameters: creating a visual presentation of the stars or create a physical model of the stars.

Creating Art through Science

anidadecastro — 2018-05-03 14:47:12 UTC

Science = art. They are the same thing. Both science and art are human attempts to understand and describe the world around us (Dave Featherstone, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, on Quora).

According to Featherstone, acquiring the actualization of art is something our human brain is hard wired to do in order to find our place and purpose in the world.

In the classroom, every student wants to fit in. In any circumstance, the student tries to comply with any of the requirements to earn a reward or grade.

As a new giver of perspective, the art in science now is not only the reward but also the process.

The second strategy is to create a neutral ground for students to become one with the process. Teachers should not scare away her students but rather encourage them to become silly but within common grounds.

The teacher should attempt to loosen up her students and create an environment where all attempts in engaging is encouraged.

ARTICLES CONCERNING SCIENCE ISSUES TODAY

anidadecastro — 2018-05-11 23:57:08 UTC

● Still cultivating change (From The New Scientist)
End the irrational opposition to genetically modified crops.

They could help subsistence farmers, says Mark Lynas

PRO-SCIENCE types, while lambasting those who campaign against genetically modified crops, often point out that no one has ever been harmed by the food produced from them. After 3 trillion meals, they insist, nobody has credibly reported even so much as a headache. August science bodies all agree. Perhaps I am the first person harmed by dealings with a genetically modified organism (GMO). During a recent trip to see GM maize in a trial in Uganda, I got quite a severe sunburn. But the maize looked impressive. With an insect-resistance gene called Bt, it was clearly better able than non-GM maize to fend off pests. It also has a drought-tolerance trait. While there, I spoke to a farmer called Lule Monica. She told me she was “praying” for the day when the modified maize, produced under the banner of the philanthropic Water Efficient Maize for Africa group, would be available. She worries about fall armyworm, a pest that has hit maize crops in Uganda and
elsewhere in East Africa.