During the course, pre-service teachers practice pedagogical methods and technologies based on the activation and intensification of students' educational activities, diagnostics, and assessment in biology teaching using STEM approach. Pre-service teachers master the subject content through projects in which scientific knowledge and design, information technology and mathematical calculations are naturally integrated. Pre-service teachers explore the methodology of the organization of STEM learning, discuss the stages, apply various research methods in the practice of teaching STEM learning, and design STEM research. Pre-service teachers form their skills in integrating research into teaching practice in various types of learning environments. Pre-service teachers who demonstrate competence can: • carry out the selection of pedagogical STEM–learning technologies and effectively implement them in the practice of teaching school academic disciplines in the classroom and in extracurricular activities; • design STEM learning, considering the diversity of students; • apply various methods and technologies of pedagogical diagnostics used in evaluation of the quality of results and content of the educational process; • perform consistent, planned actions to improve the practice of teaching and STEM learning; • develop their research skills, direct them to improve the quality of education and their functional literacy; • develop a plan for the implementation of research on the practice of teaching STEM learning; • conduct systematic evaluation of the results during STEM training; • evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of STEM education.
Goal of the discipline: Teaching future teachers conceptual methods and technologies based on diagnostics, assessment in teaching biology using STEM
Learning outcomes:
· Тo develop and apply methods of teaching, education, assessment in various types of educational environment, taking into account the principles of student-centered, competence-based, inclusive approaches;
· Тo integrate knowledge of related sciences necessary for everyday professional activities and the formation of functional literacy of students;
· Тo create and offer solutions to non-standard problems, to model and carry out biological and pedagogical research using the skills of academic writing, the principles of academic honesty.
Teaching methods: Classes will be held mainly in the form of lectures and practical classes consisting of group discussions and the acquisition of practical and research skills, in the form of abstracts, presentations, etc