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Unit Title: Didaktik Analysis of Secondary School Physics Unit Summary: Pre-service physics teachers seek ways of enhancing the teaching of specific content secondary school physics. This is done through didaktik analysis as it would help improve pre-service teachers, not only, their physics content knowledge but also students’ understanding of the secondary school physics concepts. After a teacher lectures, brainstorming and class discussion are held to assess pre-service teachers’ understanding of the specific content knowledge. Then, pre-service teachers form a group of four or five to assign a task according to the components of didaktik analysis. Individual pre-service teacher in a group is allocated a specific task to be carried out based on the stated checklists of the components of didaktik analysis. Using the Seeing Reason causal mapping tool, pre-service teachers model their developing understanding of the specific physics concepts, and then map the factors that influence physics conceptions. A list of topics of specific physics content is determined /given by the teacher. During the tasks, each pre-service teacher is encouraged to discuss with a teacher of what he/she is doing, any difficulties arise, and recommendations. At the end of the task, each individual pre-service teacher requires to present his/her work in the form of PowerPoint presentation, written lesson plans, staging ‘teaching sequence in a microteaching’, and reflection orally and verbally. Questioning is used to assess pre-service teacher’s knowledge and his/her understanding of the specific physics content. The estimated timeline for this project is about six weeks. GRASPED ( Goal ; Role ; Audience ; Set of Tasks ; Products ; Evaluation ; Duration )

Curriculum Frame Questions:

Essential Question: Does teaching methods make a different?

Unit Question: How can a pre-service teacher develop didaktik analysis to make sure specific physics content learnt better?

Content questions:

What is didaktik analysis? How do you analyze physics curriculum specifications and physics textbooks on specific physics content? How do you analyze a review of literature on students’ conceptions of specific physics content? How do you develop a daily lesson plan based on your analyses of curriculum specifications, physics textbooks, and literature review on specific physics content? How do you develop your teaching procedures or sequences for specific physics content? How can reflection on analyzing physics curriculum specifications, physics textbooks, literature review, and teaching procedures help you to make teaching specific physics content better?

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