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26 Thinking About Physics and Chemistry through Feedback: A Path for Gifted Students

This session will present several concrete, field-tested proposals that may help educators, especially when teaching science. It will introduce not only possible methods of evaluating students but also the advantages of making educational experiments. The central part of the presentation will focus on a form of student evaluation frequently used at Charles University, explain its purpose, demonstrate how the information gathered can help teachers reflect on their own teaching styles, and explain its importance when teaching gifted pupils. Additionally, the session will discuss how to obtain information from educational experiments and how to verify them. Finally, the impact of gathering gifted students´ feedback on education will be discussed.

Author(s):

Martin Konecny
mkonecny@matfyz.cz
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
Czech Republic

Mr. Martin Konecny works as a teacher at Grammar school in Prague, where he teaches Maths, Physics and own concept subject-Science. He studied Physics with focus on chemical physics, biophysics and subsequently teaching of Chemistry, Physics for Secondary Schools. As a part of his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, he focuses on teaching physics to gifted students, especially on the use of experiment in Physics. He performs regularly at conferences with presentations about practical teaching, conducts seminars about gifted students, leads future teachers on teaching practices with gifted students.