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Module TEACHING AND LEARNING CHEMISTRY WITH JUNIOR SCIENCE

Module code: EDM632
Credits: 2.5
Semester: Year-Long
Department: EDUCATION
International: No
Coordinator: Angela Rickard (EDUCATION)
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This module offers students an opportunity to expand their knowledge of the curricula and their subject area specifications, syllabi and assessments at both junior cycle and senior cycle levels. It will enable them to develop an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of active approaches to teaching and learning and their application to their practice in real contexts. Students will explore ways to apply a cross-curricular approach to their lessons through, for example, Development Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Science Technology and Engineering, Arts and Maths. (STEAM). Through individual and group based work it will advance their pedagogical content knowledge and their knowledge of the range of methodologies applicable to their subject area(s), developing their understandings of what constitutes and contributes to high quality teaching, learning and assessment.
The module focuses on:
• How to plan lessons and units of work that are appropriate to the needs and interests of learners and curricular demands,
• How to integrate innovative methodologies and a range of resources for differentiated learning, progression, formative and summative assessment
• How to integrate theories of active learning and teaching into practice
• How to integrate theories and tenets of cross-curricular approaches into teaching, learning and assessment practice
• How to access, adapt, develop, create and use resources and supports for their subject area to scaffold and challenge learners
• How to participate in communities of practice to develop, critically analyse and integrate new pedagogical insights into practice

Open Learning Outcomes
 
Open Teaching & Learning methods
 
Open Assessment
 
Open Autumn Supplementals/Resits
 
Open Timetable
 
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