Abstrakt
Workshop as part of Summer School Teaching STEM knowledge, skills and attitudes Initial Teacher Education for future science and maths teachers. The aim of this workshop is to present a conceptual and pedagogical improvement of teaching chemical reactions, a teaching, which is able to transfer the meaning of chemical reactions as exciting elements, raising interest among students and show them ways to apply gained knowledge to understand life in its very substance as well as form attitudes towards complex issues such as nuclear reactions.
The main focus be to transform learning chemical reactions into rich learning experiences which nurture the development of key competences. First, future teachers reflect on the necessity of promoting the development of key competence when teaching chemistry.
They learn to support the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes through concrete examples concerning chemical reactions in everyday life, and in support of sustainable development (industry, agriculture, transport etc.). Then, in order to provide a basis for the module, O6 introduce future teachers into the educational approaches supporting the key competence approach.
They will learn to give their students an active role and use real-life contexts, which also connect different disciplines. Typical examples for chemical reactions from biology are the CO2 cycle and photosynthesis.