Berufsfeldbezüge Physik (practical relevance of compulsory physics lectures)

• Students receive support in understanding the relevance of content in a specialist lecture of experimental physics (compulsory lectures) for teaching in school.
• "Silent" videos of key experiments provide students with opportunities to practice in order to prepare for a professional demonstration of experiments.
• A (digital and interactive) web platform with cross references and links to school physics including a collection of links is being set up.

The teacher training for physics teachers to-be provides students with a sound and comprehensive preparation for the specialist requirements of the teaching profession. However, concrete references to the teaching profession - e.g. regarding key experiments - are not sufficiently revealed to students during the first study phase. Therefore the project focuses on the introductory lectures in experimental physics for various teaching degrees (teaching at secondary, middle and grammar schools).

Presenting and demonstrating experiments at school proves to be an issue for many physics teachers during their second stage of teacher education (teacher training at school). This is how the project tackles this problem: With the help of soundless, "silent" videos students learn how to present selected demonstration experiments based on a profound physical and subject-specific didactical knowledge. They produce the voice-over for the video clips that are provided in the internet and in a next step embed the finished clips in a lesson plan, which they put together themselves based on subject-specific didactic concepts and models. To this end the videos show optimised and school specific set ups and executions of the key experiments. The objective is to provide students with a repertoire of standard experiments which they can adequately present and explain to pupils by the end of the first training stage.

The concept considers aspects of content as well as the areas communication, gaining of knowledge and subject-specific demonstration presentation formats. Another important aspect is a pupil-friendly approach to working methods in physics, e.g. working with diagrams and tables regarding the topics dealt with. School- and lesson-relevant supplements as well as handouts are provided and discussed in the seminar. The web platform with cross references and links to school physics including a link collection (-> QR-Codes, see 2.05) is accessible not only to students but also to teacher trainees and in-service teachers.

Project homepage:

http://www.didaktik.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lehrerbildung/lehrerbildung_lmu

Project execution:

Physics Didactics: Prof. Dr. Raimund Girwidz; OStR Matthias Schweinberger