Esmeralda Campos is a guest researcher at the Research Section for Physics Education. Her research interests include students' conceptual understanding of electric fields and how teachers use AI for planning their instruction.
Abstract
At the University of Vienna, the Austrian Educational Competence Centre (AECC) focuses on the didactics of natural science. It is divided into biology, chemistry and physics education, which is the focus of this seminar. The goal of the AECC physics is researching, developing and advising in teaching and learning of physics as well as being active in teaching and further education. This means that we do physics education research, we train physics education students for teaching at lower and upper secondary, and we advise in the curriculum development for physics in secondary education.
In physics education research, we have a variety of projects that focus on the further development of physics instruction for all school levels, as well as the training and professional development of teachers. The group has developed a number of highly effective teaching concepts based on educational reconstruction, for example, for mechanics, electricity, and electromagnetic radiation.
In physics teacher training, we support pre-service physics teachers in bachelor’s and master’s specialization for physics education. For in-service physics teachers, we offer an annual professional development week for physics and chemistry teachers and publish the practical journal Plus Lucis. We cooperate closely with teacher training colleges, other physics education working groups, and physics teachers' associations in Austria.
In addition, we play a key role in the development of competency-based physics education in Austria, for example in the development of curricula. For instance, we participate in the curriculum working groups, which design and review the learning programs at the university.
Coffee and tea will be served.
The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series usually on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.
The seminar will be maximum one hour and is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce participants to new ideas, reflection, and discussion within a broad spectrum of educational topics.
Presentations need not be mature and polished – on the contrary, we hope that as many as possible want to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.