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Application of non-formal education in teaching physics classes. MRS. NICOLETA CÎNDEA PRESIDENT OF Youth for Future 2006.
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Application of non-formal education in teaching physics classes MRS. NICOLETA CÎNDEA PRESIDENT OF Youth for Future 2006
Physics, as a branch of exact sciences , that attempts to elucidate natural phenomena, creates difficulties in perception, especially for the pre-university students, although their curiosity to intelge what surrounds them is very high and very creative! A significant challenge , due to the the explosion of information and IT development, has occured.Thus, trying to capture their attention on the importance of studying physics and after my participation in training courses of international exchanges of experience, where methods of non-formal education have been used and the results are obviously positive, we decided to apply this method in the physics classes that I perform at the C. Brancusi high-school, in Petrila.
As the first step,I have decided to apply those lessons-learned within revising hours and the students have been separated in groups. Each group has had a chapter to debate for a time-frame of 15 minutes, then a representative of each group has had to present the group’s decision. These decisions have been analysed and/or aproved by colleagues. At the end I have drawn conclusions which overlapped the lesson objectives
The effectiveness of the method is obvious and the involvment of studens has increased, I have diversified the method, starting to ask question about phenomena in nature in order to establish, as a common conclusion, the title of the lesson, actually starting from the conclusions.
IT development and the constant interest of the students in using computer equipments in order to create movies have generated the idea to present themselves the lesson. So the first lesson, teaches by the students for students, has come. To be more specific
The subject of the lesson has been “mechanic work ”, the students had to bring everything they could find on this issue, in order to perform together, as a joint team, the lesson. To my surprise they have made a power point presentation which has contained all lesson objectives, and presentation with animation!
Then I have asked them to make the same for the “energy” lesson, the presentation has been made upon their ideas and this new presentation is very nice. Other students have been interested on such presentation, so, as a result of competition, the best possible and complex presentation have occurred
On this occasion I found that the students from the technological branch, who were trying to obtain hydrogen from water electrolyze as an energy source came to show me how did they experience at home after documenting from the net .Other students brought me images of holograms and showed images obtained after they began to wonder how to get these pictures so, because I have explained them, they became interested in optics.
Others told me that they had to find a week in order to each the material, but in the meantime they found other interesting phenomena such as: the speed of the darkness, about the Material behind the brain, they managed to understand the liaisons between Chemistry, Physics, Biology and that there is now a need to study them all to find solutions to save the planet.
So when I started to divide students in groups of two or three to prepare lessons, I have presented once the Galileo vs. /Inquisition case and a student has made the statement that there is no stand by stat , I put him to make a presentation about this idea to have trained staff and class as the Inquisition, the student in question has had the right to a defender. So I managed to train the students in discussions on the pros and cons and the presentation was a real dispute giving rise to brainstorming
In summary method shows the advantages of developing students' skills on the use of IT, English, etc. and teamwork spirit, the interest in Physics has developed. Disadvantage however is that they are not attracted by the math, just because they get high marks for hard work but not so high when solving Physics problems! Why Physics laws should have mathematical beauty? So the method can be improved?
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