UNISA Short Course in Teaching Biodiversity: Life Sciences Grades 10-12)
At the end of this programstudents will …
- Subject Knowledge and Learning (Theory): Show improved understanding of environment and sustainability subject knowledge in the context of a specific Subject and Phase.
- Pedagogical Knowledge and Learning (Practice): Show ability to use appropriate teaching methods and assessment approaches for a specified subject knowledge, skills and values
- Situated Knowledge and Learning (Context): Relate subject specific environment and sustainability content knowledge to broader issues and contexts
- Practical Knowledge and Experience (Work Experience): Design, develop, implement and reflectively review a lesson plan / sequence of lesson plans relevant to an environmental and sustainability content focus in a particular Subject and Phase/ Grade.
With regards to Biodiversity Grades 10-12
The target groups for this training are Grade 10-12 Life Science teacher educators, subject advisors and teachers who have to provide guidance or teach biodiversity in the CAPS curriculum
1 year
English
December 2015, January, February 2016
Distance and workshops(Four days)
Learners are assessed as follows:
Aportfolio of evidence comprising the following tasks:
Formative assessment:
- know your learners pre-course task
- Know your subject assignment
- Improve your teaching practice assignment
- Improve your assessment practice assignment
Summative assessment: A final portfolio of evidence with the following:
4Completed Assignments
- Introductory Core text
- A changing environment
- Know your subject
- Improve your teaching practice
- Improve your assessment
- Methods and Processes to Support Change Oriented Learning
- Information transfer methods
- Experiential methods
- Investigative methods
- learning by doing
- Deliberative methods
- Teaching Biodiversity:
- Unit 1 – what is biodiversity
- Unit 2 – the roles of biodiversity
Unit 3 – causes of biodiversity loss and emerging human responses to biodiversity loss
Dr S. Shava
BSc Hons, MEd (Environmental Education), PhD (Environmental Education)
Expertise: Environmental Education
Department of Science & Technology Education
AJH van der Walt Building, 7-37
Tel: 27 12 429-4782 Fax: 27 86 659-6865
Cell: 0786954153
E-mail: shavas@unisa.ac.za
Lynette Ramango
Centre for Continuing Education and Training
AJH Van Der Walt Building 7-16
Tel: 012 429 4627
Fax: 012 429 4800 / 086 548 9968
