COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOLOGY TEACHING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYL 5007 INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOLOGY TEACHING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Biology Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ERKAN ÖZCAN

Offered to

Biology Teacher Education

Course Objective

To learn interdisciplinary teaching approach and action plan, design, coding and robotics studies, Scientix project, innovation, innovative thinking, entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development and career choice, interdisciplinary learning cycle, career planning, inquiry-based interdisciplinary teaching approach; project based learning; interdisciplinary teaching approach is to develop lesson plan, to prepare activities, scientific attitude, to learn ethics and values.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn to prepare interdisciplinary teaching approach and action plan.
2   To be able to perform design, coding and robotics studies in other sciences with biology.
3   To be able to learn innovations, innovative thinking, entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development.
4   To be able to learn project-based learning, lesson plan development, activity preparation, scientific attitude, ethics and values through interdisciplinary teaching approach based on inquiry

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scientific literacy
2 Basic characteristics of science and scientific knowledge
3 Characteristics of science literate individual
4 The importance of the science of biology and its place among other disciplines
5 Basic concepts, principles, theories and relations between them in biology
6 Scientific practices, scientific process skills
7 The nature and philosophy of biology, the historical development of biology concepts (cell, genetics, classification, systems, evolution etc.) and the methods used by scientists who play a role in this development
8 General Review, Course Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9 Interaction between biology, technology, society, culture and environment
10 Genetic literacy
11 Biological technologies, up-to-date biological applications and their impact on collecting and environment
12 Personal decision making process, bioethics, attitudes and values
13 Environmental, social values
14 Career planning, lesson plans, project development and presentation, drama.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Karademir, Interdisciplinary Skill Interaction in Instructional and Instructional Science Education, Pegem Akademi Publishing, 2017
Johanna Pretsch, Andreas Müller, Wolfgang Schnotz, Heidrun Ludwig, Alexander Kauertz, Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, 2015

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, presentation, demonstration, discussion, experiment, observation techniques, preparing power point presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Course topics according to learning outcomes will be assessed via midterm, homeworks, and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendence rule is 70% for the lectures and 80% for the laboratory section.
Attemps to cheat may result in disciplinary actions.
The instructor has right to make quizzes. The scores obtained from quizzes may be added to midterm and final grades. Students will be informed at the beginning of the semester.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ridvan.kete@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 13:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Preparing presentations 1 13 13
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 97

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.134113353222
LO.243222252231
LO.344232243222
LO.444223252331

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