Presentation shared by authors at the 2015 EDEN Open Classroom Conference "Open Discovery Space: Transforming schools into innovative learning organisations" held on 18-21 September 2015, in Athens, Greece. Find out more on #OCCAthens here: http://www.eden-online.org/eden-events/open-classroom-conferences/athens2015.html

1. Science Teaching
in Secondary
Special
Education
Nikolaos Nerantzis
PhysicistinSpecialEducation
(Greece)
EDEN OPEN CLASSROOM 2015
ODS CONFERENCE
TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS INTO INNOVATIVE LEARNING
ORGANISATIONS
19.Sep.2015
Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens

3. https://twitter.com/UNICEFLive/status/642796487701696512/photo/1
EDUCATION

4. EDUCATION
https://twitter.com/UNICEFLive/status/642796487701696512/photo/1
SECONDARY

5. EDUCATION
SECONDARY
https://speduser2.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/panoramic-photos/
12-14
15-17
12-14…17+
15-17…20+
>> autonomous specialschools
>> inclusionclasses
milddifficulties
severe difficulties
SPECIAL

6. A learning disability is a neurological condition
that interferes with an individual’s ability to store,
process, or produce information.
EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
Learning DisabilitiesDefinition
Learning disabilities can affect one’s ability to
read, write, speak, spell, compute math, reason
and also affect an individual’s attention, memory,
coordination, social skills and emotionalmaturity.

7. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
Learning DisabilitiesDefinition
…whilst excluding other causes such as
incomplete schooling, cultural deprivation,
mental reta- rdation, autism spectrum
disor- der, visual impairment, hearing
impairment,etc.

8. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
core scientificideas
student‘sideasare universal
mathematics
…& not easy to be modified*
difficultiesin memory
X
(short term / working / longterm)
* …“old ideas stay alive in particular
contexts. Usually the best that could be
achieved was a peripheral conceptual
change”

9. t – aɪ – ɡ – ə – (r)
ti – ger
tiger
phonems
syllables
thewordasawhole
tiger
Dyslexia /dɪsˈlɛksɪə/

10. analytical thought
language
science
logic
mathematics
creativity
intuition
music
art
holistic thought
Dyslexia /dɪsˈlɛksɪə/

11. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
Learning Difficulties& Disabilities
& typicalclass’ Teacher
>> DiscrepancyComponent
schoolperformance

generalintelligence
>> Responseto
academicinterventions

12. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
Learning Difficulties
& typicalclass’ Teacher’s judgments
…91 % of the LD group,
…100% of the Low IQ group,
…95% of the LA group.
…can help to early, valid
& reliablediagnosis…

13. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
Learning Difficulties
& typicalclass’ Teacher’s judgments
…Difficultiesin Learning
…Difficultiesin SchoolPerformance
…Difficultiesin Behavior
mentalretardation,autism,brain damage
specificlearningdisorders
(in writing,in reading,in arithmetic/math)
psychological,emotional,social

15. EDUCATION
SPECIAL
SECONDARY
SCIENCE TEACHING
discuss
understand
collaborate
repeat
support

16. • InquiryBased Science Education -
extendphase
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SCIENCE TEACHING

17. • InquiryBased Science Education -
extendphase
http://4myfiles.wordpress.com/
SCIENCE TEACHING
• International Educational Practices

18. • InquiryBased Science Education -
extendphase
http://4myfiles.wordpress.com/
SCIENCE TEACHING
• International Educational Practices
• Repositories / Connections

19. • InquiryBased Science Education -
extendphase
http://4myfiles.wordpress.com/
SCIENCE TEACHING
• International Educational Practices
• Repositories / Connections
• Metacognition / Metamemory
• Brain NetworksinLearning

20. • InquiryBased Science Education –“7E
model”
SCIENCE TEACHING
elicit
engagement
exploration
explanation
elaboration
evaluation
extend

21. • InquiryBased Science Education
SCIENCE TEACHING
…averyimportantphasefor
-fordeepunderstandingofcorescientificideas,
- forknowledgetransfer and
- thedevelopmentofeveryday lifeskills.
extend

22. • InquiryBased Science Education
SCIENCE TEACHING
Shadow
extend
Shadow
Economy
Shadow
Puppetry

24. • InquiryBased Science Education
SCIENCE TEACHING
Light
extend
Art
Planets’(only?)
Auroras

25. STEM STEAM

26. http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/edu-object/aurora-borealis-13547
http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu/node/107349
https://youtu.be/hC7QroiDVQw

27. SCIENCE TEACHING
• International Educational Practices

28. Educational PracticesSeries
International Bureau of Education
• Teaching as a purposeful means toan end
• Core scientific ideas
• Deep scientific understanding
• Complexity of learning
• Active construction of scientific knowledge
• Science content and students’ interests
• Expectations for learning
• Students’ anxieties and conflicts
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/services/online-materials/publications/educational-practices.html

30. • Repositories / Connections
SCIENCE TEACHING

31. A didactic proposal to introduce the concepts of “energy flow”,
“wave”, “oscillation” and “disturbance”
(Nerantzis, Bezergiannidou, Mandiliotis, 2013)
SCIENCE TEACHING
3rd prize at IEP’s / PATHWAY’s on IBSE contest:“The Pathway toInquiry
Based Science Teaching”(266624/SiS-CT-2010)

32. >> The scenario includes the “water cycle  DC electrical circuit” & the “matter  energy”
analogies,energy chains, storyline, posters, ICTs…

33. …scientific questions and experimental inquiries with experimental setups and 1D, 2D
and 3D pendulums,
* Theactivities proposal can be found also on UDLnet inventory.

34. On simple DC circuits
(Nerantzis, 2014)
• 1st prize to 2014 GoLab’s nationalteacher contest
SCIENCE TEACHING
* The initial idea was to emphasize the dialogue of reality
(experiments)andmodels(virtuallaboratory)

35. >> The scenario Includes (in the ILS) virtual lab & hands-on experiments with “low
cost” materials, the use of smartphone/ tablet for initial and final wireless recording
students'responses, energy chains, comics, posters…
CIRCUIT’sPOLYGON

36. Experimental (open) inquiry with low-cost materials, on the
simultaneous freefall of two different bodies from the same height
(Nerantzis, Mandiliotis, 2015)
SCIENCE TEACHING
1st prize to 2015’s GoLab’s nationalteacher contest
BigIdeasofScience

37. >> This, IBSE proposal, aims students with disabilities and/or special educational needs
(SEN), in order to investigate whether two bodies arrive simultaneously or not at the
ground, using “low-cost” materials, posters, interactive whiteboard (IWB), photo and
video editingsoftware via a GoLab’s Inquiry LearningSpace (ILS).

39. Environment& STEM Education from(Nerantzis,
Mpezergiannidou, Tozakidis, Mandiliotis, 2015)
SCIENCE TEACHING
a highly commented entry at GreeNET’s “How to shape environmental
education for young people, so that their interest in the environment
sector of theeconomy rises?” competition

40. >> As a starting point we set citizenship and we constructed a didactic proposal with
three ILS (on watersheds, on waste & on wetlands) aimed at active learning, "framing"
theconcept of environment with theknowledgeof European and Greek law.
>> We tend to provide teaching tools and good teaching practices (e.g. posters, comics,
video from Educational Television, GoLab/Graasp, metamnemonic questions, outside
the classroom" activities etc.) based on STEM education, while integrating principles of
inquiry learningand ICTs.

43. Lasers & Bubbles
(Nerantzis, Mandiliotis 2014)
• Top-5 at ISE “LearningwithLight”2015 Competition
SCIENCE TEACHING
* “We repeat the activities with the same five students, whom also
carriedouttheexperimentstwoyearsago”

44. BigIdeasofScience
The project has the followingPhases
Phase I (pre-activities)
 Remembering2013’s experiments.
 Atoms  River Stonesanalogy
or How light…jumps!
 Activities at the Laboratory Centerof Science - LCS
(Serres)
lasers, total reflection, fiber optics, Morse code, bending
light with sugar, …

46. Phase II (mainactivity)
 Experimentation- playing
 Mainactivity at LCS
PhaseIII (post-activities)
 LCS’ activities (red-cyan 3D, eye doctor)
 Visit to “Heraclitus” sciencemuseum.

47. * Theactivities proposal can be found also on UDLnet inventory.
Phase IV (discussion/conclusions/extend)
>>…ancient philosophers on nature of light”,
>> GoLab’s remote lab The color of the light,
>> Eye resource & “Eyes' hidden secrets”,
>> Aurora Borealis & Aurora Australis colours,
>> Light pollution,
>>Newton’s mistake.
aether
air
fire
water
earth

52. SCIENCE TEACHING
• Brain Networks inLearning
• Metacognition/ Metamemory

54. after20 min
ofsitting
20 minutes
afterawalk

55. Metacognition
elicit
engagement
exploration
explanation
elaboration
extend
evaluation
>> What I did likedin this research?
>> What was difficultfor me in this research?
>> How did I worked?
>> Am I satisfiedwithmy performance?
>> Am I satisfiedwithmy group’s performance?
evaluation

57. Metamemory
Ease of Learning
Judgments of Learning
Feeling of Knowing
EOL
JOL
FOK

58. TASKprior after
What doyou think, isthisan
easyTASK ?
So, at the end, it was an easy
TASK ?
elicit
engagement
exploration
explanation
elaboration
evaluation
extend
So, in the future, how difficult it would be something like this
TASK ?
evaluation

59. Three majorbrainnetworks involved in learning…
• the recognition network
• the strategicnetwork
• the affectivenetwork
http://live.v1.udesa.edu.ar/files/programas/NEUROCIENCIAS/Brainresearch_learning_and_emotions_Hinton.pdf
…receives sensory information from the environment and transforms
it into knowledge
…identifies and categorizes what we see, hear or read.
…is recruited for planning andcoordinating goal-oriented actions.
…is involved in emotional dimensions of learning such as interest,
motivation andstress.https://4myfiles.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/hmerida-01-apr-2015/

60. recognition
network
strategic
network
affective
network
CAST
How
What
Why

61. UDL
Guidelines

63. • The educational activities presented here, involve SEN
studentsworkingin teamsand asresearchers;
SO…

64. • Theeducationaloutcomes(amongothers) are:
>> knowledgeon thecorescientificideas,
>> betterrelationships(teachers& students),
>> boostof students’ self-esteem;
SO…

65. • …integratedthe emotioncomponentin learning._
SO…

66. • The first pillar is to remove any “obstacles” and to offer
studentseducationalactivitiesin order
>> tofacilitatetheirlearningand
>> toprovidethem theexperiencesfor
lifenecessary.
AND…

67. • The second pillar has been the design of innovative
educationalactivities…
AND…

68. …a process that has been facilitated with the participation
innetworks,such asGoLab,ODS,ISEand UDLnet…
AND…

69. …(and) the participation in teachers’ contests, face to face
trainings (such as workshops and summer schools) and
teachers’exchangeof resources,practices& expe-rience._
AND…

70. • All the above are objectives to an effort for an inclusive
education and they were developed with use of “open
access scholarships and open educational resources” (UN
2014).
AND…FINALLY

71. Mydreamis (atleast!) oneofmy students
will goto
…and (atleast!)one ofmystudents will
stand forhuman life–like
r.L.Gen. Romeo Dallaire
Mars

72. 4myfiles.wordpress.com
abc57001@gmail.com
Thank you

73. References
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