Course Identification

The students are expected to practice the real life of a teacher as well as the academic experience of designing teaching materials. To do so the course is divided into two main parts: school life part and a project part. The course is scheduled for two academic years.

During their teaching certificate studies the students become familiar with the curriculum, didactics aspects, educational psychology, and ways to assess students. All of those aspects become real when the students experience them in real life schools.

The project part is the academic part of the practicum. This part is unique to the Weizmann Institute of Science. The students who are experts in the discipline are expected to design teaching materials for students. Each student will be associated with an expert from the Department of Science teaching, or, from the Davidson Institution to be his/her mentor while developing the material.

Upon successful completion of this course- students should be able to:

1. Organize the theoretical material they have studied and associate it to real school life.
2. Present the knowledge gained in the theoretical studies of the teaching certificate courses.
3. Design lessons by: defining the subject matter of the lesson and its goals.
4. Demonstrate theoretical knowledge while presenting a subject matter.
5. Differentiate types of exercises and link them to the classroom.
6. Break down the information to be taught into pieces, organize it, categorize it and illuminate important aspects.
7. Synthesize pieces of information so that their students will understand the whole concepts.
8. Design exams and assess their students.
9. Analyze results of exams and assessments in order to determine students' problems in the subject matter.
10. Present and discuss events occurred in class and associate theoretical ideas to these events.
11. Analyze and assess colleagues' description of events.
12. Associate content knowledge with pedagogical content knowledge.
13. Demonstrate new aspects using laboratories, computers and other technological software.