If you wish to take part in any of the opportunities below, or need more information, please email lasar@canterbury.ac.uk
Many of these projects have been adapted in response to the request from teachers to provide support to engage all students in a home-setting. Any data gathered will be used to develop support further and to share strategies to maximise all student engagement with their learning.
- PRIMARY (Year 5-6) or KS3
Physics project: this is an adapted version of the department’s Physics and Big Questions Project. Teachers can run simple, engaging investigations with their students in order to develop their observational skills and understanding of the power and limitations of science and multidisciplinary contexts. Structured resources are available for teachers to use with their students, where each project is aimed to be used over a week’s period (approximately 4 lessons).
- PRIMARY (Year 5-6):
Ecology, variation and evolution teaching in primary: Teacher CPD to support and/or replace traditional Y5-6 teaching.
- SECONDARY (Age 13-19)
Permeable Walls: The permeable Walls project offers an opportunity to provide you and your staff with free CPD, to support your students’ understanding of the distinctiveness of science, religion and other disciplines and how they interact. This will provide you and the staff support and resources to deliver a minimum of four innovative sessions with year 7 or 8 over four to six weeks. Helping students to recognise the distinctive contributions different disciplines make to answering real-world question supports them to understand their curriculum and their understanding of career options. In taking part in the research schools will be provided with a certificate of participation in national educational research, and students will receive a certificate and opportunity to share their work at one of our events in 2020-21. This research will be co-created with our participating schools, we want to understand what it looks like for your students (online or in school).
New Generation Teachers: this is a project of approximately 6 sessions with videos and live webinars, giving teacher training tips to teenagers who are interested in teaching and/or have a younger sibling and/or are disengaged with learning. This project is multi-versatile: (i) can provide young people with a general taster of teaching; (ii) can be used for older students to use their experiences as part of an EPQ or research publication; (iii) can provide a focus for Year 11 students; (iv) can provide students with an epistemic insight into education; (v) can provide support for families trying to support home-learning. Note: Having a younger sibling is not a requirement for doing the course. (www.newgenerationteachers.com )
- SECONDARY (KS4-5):
A bridging course for university study: A taster Foundation course (in development). Teachers (at school and university lecturers) will collaborate to provide students with a taster of university life from the different subject disciplines’ perspectives. One aim here will be to target students in disadvantaged groups, who are losing their usual school and outreach contact, in order to encourage them to consider university after school.
N.B. student consent forms will be supplied to schools so that individuals can choose to opt-out of sharing their data for research purposes.