Course Identification

Title:

Didactics of Chemistry

Code:

20255063

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Dr. Ruth Waldman

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2025

Semester:

Full Year

When / Where:

Thursday, 09:00 - 12:00, Science Teaching Lab 1

First Lecture:

07/11/2024

End date:

03/07/2025

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching -Teaching Certificate: Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 0.00 points

Comments

In-person course

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

10%

Assignments:

50%

Final:

30%

Other :

10%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

1

Syllabus

High school chemistry curriculum, including the chemistry laboratory program
Skills such as: inquiry, asking questions, argumentation, knowledge integration by concept maps, etc.
Alternative assessment methods.
Diversity of methods for integrating computers in the teaching and learning process.
Problems of misconceptions and strategies for coping with this problem.
Class managment

Learning Outcomes

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

Master basic schools Chemistry curriculum.
Fill-in a matriculation exam related to high schools chemistry curriculum.
Repeat chemistry laboratory experiments according to the teaching program.
Demonstrate a variety of teaching and assessment methods

Reading List

Textbooks which are taught at the basic chemistry level in high school.
The document of the high school chemistry curriculum
The booklet of the Inquiry-type chemistry laboratory program.

Website

N/A