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| astro300_f13:day13 [2013/11/13 03:27] – [The Hidden Curriculum (50 minutes)] f.fornasini | astro300_f13:day13 [2013/11/14 01:02] (current) – [The Hidden Curriculum (50 minutes)] f.fornasini |
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| ====General Takeaways==== | ====General Takeaways==== |
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| - blah | - Physics and astronomy courses seek to do more than teach content. They seek to teach a way of thinking but that is not always what is tested/taught. |
| - blah | - Student expectations about scientific knowledge and how they are expected to approach scientific material may not be in line with the professor's. Therefore, it's important when designing a course to not take the hidden curriculum for granted, but rather to spell it out (for the professor at least) and use it to drive how the course is structured, assignments, assessment, etc. |
| | - In order to help change student expectations about scientific thinking and to change how they think about science, it is useful to help them become aware of their own thinking process. Schoenfeld's questions are one way of doing that when students are given problem-solving tasks. |
| | - A student's self-image can greatly affect their performance. To help students fight personal insecurities, gender threat, and racial threat, we can try to help them foster a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset about intelligence (i.e. intelligence is not an innate gift but something that needs to be developed and worked for). |
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| =====Section Recap (20 minutes)===== | =====Section Recap (20 minutes)===== |
| =====The Hidden Curriculum (50 minutes) ===== | =====The Hidden Curriculum (50 minutes) ===== |
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| Discuss the following questions, first in small groups, then as a class: | Discuss the following questions: |
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| - What does Redish define as the "hidden curriculum"? He gives an example for a physics class, which is also appropriate for upper-level astronomy courses. What do you think should be on the hidden curriculum be for an introductory astronomy course? | - Class: What does Redish define as the "hidden curriculum"? |
| - Redish identifies three stages of "knowing" when discussing student expectations of learning science: a received stage, a subjective stage, and a consciously constructivist stage. Which of these, if any, have you noticed among your students? How can we help students transition from thinking of scientific knowledge as received vs. constructed? | - Small groups: He gives an example for a physics class, which is also appropriate for upper-level astronomy courses. What do you think the hidden curriculum should be for an introductory astronomy course? |
| - What did you find most shocking/revealing/surprising from Table 3.2? Do you expect the same trends might exist for your course? | - Class: Redish identifies three stages of "knowing" when discussing student expectations of learning science: a received stage, a subjective stage, and a consciously constructivist stage. Which of these, if any, have you noticed among your students? |
| - Redish talks about metacognition and an example of how to foster it in the classroom. Do you think that Schoenfeld's questions could be used in astronomy classrooms to help students become aware and control their thinking processes? | - Small groups, class share: How can we help students transition from thinking of scientific knowledge as received vs. constructed? |
| - What role do you think showmanship plays in a classroom? It is superfluous, nice if it happens, necessary, or crucial? | - Class: What did you find most shocking/revealing/surprising from Table 3.2? Do you expect the same trends might exist for your course? Why? |
| - | - Small groups, class share: Redish talks about metacognition and an example of how to foster it in the classroom. Do you think that Schoenfeld's questions could be used in astronomy classrooms to help students become aware and control their thinking processes? Ideas of other ways to foster metacognition? |
| | - Class: What role do you think showmanship plays in a classroom? Is it superfluous, nice if it happens, necessary, or crucial? |
| | - Class: How can we help students who feel like they just can't do physics or math (for self-image reasons, including gender threat)? |
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| ===== Homework For Next Time===== | ===== Homework For Next Time===== |
