Teaching Physical Science

Prerequisites: 15:256:551; nonmatriculated students, permission of instructor. Helps pre- and in-service high school physical science teachers acquire pedagogical content knowledge and skills that are necessary to teach physics and chemistry (with a primary focus on physics). Includes the analysis of high school physics curriculum, detailed development of teaching strategies for most of the topics with the adjustment for different students, lesson planning, and design of formative and summative assessment tools.