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Welcome to the module Conceptualising Teacher Development (EDPD807).

The purpose of the module is for you to reflect on the concept of teacher professional learning in a scholarly way that links to your own experience of learning to become a teacher.

• Understand some key concepts in teacher learning and professional development and use these in discussions, writing and reporting.
• Describe the different discourses that underpin different models of professional development.
• Identify and understand the different theories that explain teacher learning.
• Understand teacher development in/through a social, professional and personal frame.
• Examine policy documents that regulate professional development and identify the concepts, discourses and assumptions that underpin them.

Welcome to Foundational Chemistry (EDPS110), a module dedicated to developing your knowledge of chemistry with a particular focus on Analytical and some aspects of Inorganic Chemistry. Completing the module will equip you with the necessary skills in chemical reaction analytics, critical aspects of secondary science teaching.  

Introduction

Physical Science Education 4: Electricity & Atomic Structure

This learning site is developed to facilitate online teaching, learning and assessment in this module through the following resources:

• Electronic notes.
  
• Pdf versions of lecture presentations.
• Links to online textbooks and websites that may be useful to support your learning
  
• Videos or links (where the file size is too big to upload) to videos on the internet to explain or illustrate phenomena 
• Embedded online computer simulations, as well as their web links for investigating phenomena
• Tutorial problems and solutions.
  
• Past test/examination questions with memoranda from 2021 and 2022.

All notices related to the administration of this module (dates and details of lectures/assessments) are posted here in the Announcements forum and automatically emailed to your student email account.  Please check these frequently so that you know what is happening in the module.

• Lecturer:     Dr Xolani G Mbuyise
• Email:           MbuyiseX@ukzn.ac.za

This is a second didactics module based on teaching and learning Physical Sciences for secondary secondary schools. It builds from EDPS211 and takes the issues of teaching and learning science from the theoretical perspective and positions these within the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) in the South African context.  

Assessment tasks

·    Assessment 1: Assignment (50%) (Due: 27/March/2024)

·    Assessment 2: Online 1^st Quiz (25%) (Due: 17/April/2024)

·    Assessment 3: Online 2^nd Quiz (25%) (Due: 08/May/2024)

·    Examination: (100%) (Due: To be confirmed by the Exam office)