Grant Description

Teachers from K to 12 will be offered an online class on weather. Through shorter lectures, outdoor activities and interactive discussions the students will feel like real active participants.

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Description
Online schooling has been a very challenging change for many. Teachers and students are equally struggling due to the new format and expectations. Teachers feel they need to do triple the work; students feel frustrated as they often don’t understand what their task is. The end result is the loss of valuable time and knowledge, and it is hard to predict when it will change. This project aims to address and improve online schooling. The class Science of Weather will be offered to teachers who are doing their Master’s program at NMT. This class will be re-developed to satisfy the new form of online teaching. Shorter, crisper lectures will be followed by interactive online discussions. For example, the students will have an opportunity to read articles on climate change from professional journals, popular journals and from media. Through the virtual discussion among themselves and a teacher (myself) they will understand what is scientific language and how media sometimes doesn’t get it right. They will get to offer their own solutions and think how to create similar discussions in their classrooms. The assignments will be focused on outdoor, for example: taking pictures and identifying clouds. Through this class the students who are teachers themselves will learn how to do proper online schooling, how to set up clear lectures, assignments and goals. With the newly gained perspective of being an online student themselves, they will learn how to teach in their virtual classrooms.

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