Programme

Registration at Hotel Lobby

11^th November 2024 Monday

12th November 2024 Tuesday

13th November 2024 Wednesday

Cultural Visit - Excursion

14th November 2024 Thursday

15th November 2024 Friday

Livestreaming using Zoom 

Workshops

(Tentative: 14 November 2024)

Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Facilitators:    Dr Narendra D Deshmukh & Dr Sandhya Thakur

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mumbai, India

Expected Participants: Teachers or pre-service teachers or teacher educators or researchers.

Overview: This hands-on session will give an introduction of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) concepts; impact of PCK; how PCK is developed; and a theoretical model of PCKs and Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TSPCK). The professional learning of teachers is an ongoing process of knowledge building and skill development in effective teaching practice. Lee Shulman (1987) defined pedagogical content knowledge as teachers’ interpretations and transformations of subject-matter knowledge in the context of facilitating student learning. In this session will examine how Teachers or pre-service teachers or teacher educators or researchers transform their content knowledge for teaching into representations, analogies, models and explanations. The session will include research articles, videos, web resources and presentation content. Designing activities and lesson plans, participation in discussion forums and short assignments on various components of TSPCK will be incorporated to help the participant’s form better understanding of various concepts. In this session we explore various methodological skills that enable structuring of a topic for purposes of teaching. 

Multimodal Instructional Approaches in School Science

Facilitators:    Dr Narendra D Deshmukh & Dr Sandhya Thakur

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mumbai, India

Expected Participants: Teachers or pre-service teachers or teacher educators or researchers.

Overview: In science education, students are encouraged to acquire practical scientific skills. Students should experience science education as more fun and exciting rather than a burden and boredom. Innovation in science education is the need of the hour for the development of a nation. Science education sector must change along with globalization, technological & knowledge revolution. Innovative practices are not just providing ideas leading to discoveries and achievements. We have designed the activities using the existing resources, in an innovative way. Most of our activities are experimented during the teachers training programme by teachers at our science education research centre. These activities are for empowering the students to create their own performance. We focussed on following objectives:

1. To teach science in an innovative way using existing resources.
2. To create memorable classroom experiences for students and teachers
3. To establish connections between the learning scientific concepts and life skills
4. To enhance students’ active thinking and creativity
5. To keep students more engaged in science lessons and increase interest in science.

During hands-on session we will use following innovative activities-

1. Play dough- Play dough was home-made, low cost and so affordable.
2. Role play technique to make biology concepts interesting, keeping in mind the popular television programmes as well as some interesting dialogues.
3. Preparation of Biological models which are easy to prepare, long lasting, foldable, require minimum space and low cost.