Thursday, 16 February 2017
Thinking about NOS
It has become very clear to me from my short time here at Wildlands being immersed in real life science that teaching students science really is far more than learning knowledge. Knowledge can be learnt or perhaps even sourced furthermore, students will have many opportunities to gain knowledge in whatever area they need. However, it is the students ability to question, critique the knowledge that I understand to be lacking especially around science. I have been reading around the capabilities and think they will help teachers to understand the skills students need to learn rather than going with the more knowledge based approach to teaching science. The capabilities also link to the NZC key competencies .
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Critical thinking and the process of questioning (what I know, what I need to find out, how does it connect? does it make sense? what else do I need to find out?) is already embedded at Cockle Bay - as our the key competencies. Last year we encouraged teachers (through science snippets) to use practical science investigations to assess relevant key competencies by looking at the capabilities (especially at report writing time when these are to the fore), but this needs to be given much more focused attention throughout the year - thanks for the reminder
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