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Teacher Training

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Oliver Ellingham

To hone my teaching skills and learn useful practices I have started following a number of established teaching blogs. These include:
Thoughts on chemistry and education;
Reading for Learning;
Newton’s Laws of Learning;
Mr T’s Blog: Keeping it simple!;
The Fruits Are Sweet and;
BUNSEN BLUE.

September 2019 was the start of the school year, as well as the start of yet another year of University for myself! This will be my 8th…

I am training to be a teacher of science (particularly biology) in secondary schools on a PGCE (post-graduate certificate of education) course at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU).

In a cohort of roughly 140 student teachers, we are lectured on subjects like the history of education, child development, how children learn, health and safety, safeguarding, and lesson planning and observation. We regularly divide into our subject groups and while with my 50 other fellow scientists (30 biologists, 15 chemists, and 5 physicists) we discuss how to teach science, the national curricula, and whether practical classes are important to science education.

Aspects of teaching to have stuck with me particularly thus far include linking syllabuses to aspirational job roles and epistemic insight – a new insight to teaching with a cross subject approach by answering ‘big’ questions from the perspective of different subjects.

 

Enjoying a little calm in CCCU's Mediterranean courtyard.
Enjoying a little calm in CCCU’s Mediterranean courtyard.
We all love to solve riddles!
We all love to solve riddles!
Important theorists in child development.
Important theorists in child development.
Practical classes can be rewarding for students.
Practical classes can be rewarding for students.
Experiment to test different colour skittle dyes for diffusion.
Experiment to test different colour skittle dyes for diffusion.
Science lessons...
Science lessons…
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About Oliver Ellingham

PhD student at the University of Reading. Working on ID techniques of powdery mildew Fungi. Interested in mycology, plant pathology and arboriculture.
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