Pedagogy Map

Pedagogy Map

1. Literacy

   • - Students comprehend and compose texts that provide scientific information and facts, events, recount experiments, present opinions, theories or claims - Use literacy skills for comprehending and making logical sense of data representation eg. reading graphs, using legends in graphs, tables, models, maps and animations - Use to give descriptions of observations, formulate hypotheses, construct evidence-based arguments - Students identify language and literacy usage in different (science) context - Use and understanding of scientific vocabulary eg. photospectrometry, synthesis, glucogenosis, hydrolysis etc. - Literacy is ESSENTIAL to link words/texts > concepts > student understanding
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

2. Numeracy

   • - Particularly evident in Science Inquiry Skills - Practical measurement, collection of data, representation of data as well as interpretation of data collected - Students introduced to certainty and reliability of measurements - Collection of quantitative and qualitative data - Graphical representation of data - Identifying trends and patterns in observations and data - Use of mathematical relationships to predict and calculate data
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

3. ICT Capability

   • - Researching skills using internet - Presentation of scientific findings - access scientific information, collect, analyse, representing data, modelling and interpreting models and relationships/trends/patterns - Digital simulations may allow for scientific experiments that may not be available materially in schools allowing for increased access to information and data
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

4. Critical and Creative Thinking

   • -Problem- based learning to generate and evaluate knowledge - use prior knowledge to build understanding of scientific concepts - posing questions, hypothesising, predicting, speculating, solving problems - forming evidence-based ideas and making decisions - planning of scientific inquiry - formulating conclusions using variety of information sources -critically reflect on students own process of information gathering, analysing and evaluating - student explores creative scientific inquiry, flexible learning, open-minds to speculate and formulate facts - design creative experimental and authentic experimental modes and styles, giving students personal space for creativity
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

5. Personal and Social Capability

   • - Developing of communication skills, initiative, goal setting, teamwork and interacting with wider audiences, decision making and collaborative working - Expands students ability to question, exploring and expanding curiosity in the science field -students gain insight into the relevance of science in their everyday life
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

6. Ethical Understanding

   • - develops student's ability to make ethical judgements with relevance to science - consideration of codes of conduct, ethical use of information and applications - students consider ethical impact of their experiments on environment, ecosystems and organisms as well as the wider community -use ethical knowledge to inform complex judgements on social, environmental and personal issues eg. clearing of natural land habitats to allow agricultural farming
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy

7. Intercultural Understanding

   • - students are exposed to the contribution of diverse cultural groups and their perspectives on science today - students gain insight and practise with cultural sensitivity, acknowledging that some scientific debates require cultural sensitivity - understanding of the diverse "richness" of scientific teams, valuing of diverse opinions and contributions in order to address worldwide issues
     • Low End Pedagogy
     • High End Pedagogy