Welcome to PD3 Course!
Welcome everyone! Since you are attending this PD3 course, it means that you have now delivered at least a full year 30 lessons from the ALFA and Friends Little Scientists program, and you are now ready to equip yourself to use the observational protocols available within the programme, and by working with the scaffolded and spiral structures of the programme, you will be able to use the tools available to you flexibly. You will be required to make judgements of the students’ knowledge and skills acquisition, compare these judgements with your peers and defend the judgements based on observational evidence, thus enabling you to describe the learning journey of the students.
Goals of the PD3 Course
The overarching goal for this course is to build your confidence and capability with the Little Scientists Programme.
The Broad Learning Intentions are:
- To describe and classify teaching experiences with the program since participation in PD2, clarify misunderstandings and reflect on implications for practice
- To be able to describe the scope and sequence of the program recognizing and exploring where opportunities exist for knowledge and skills to be scaffolded for learning growth
- To be able to describe and classify how students perform individually and with peers through lessons and activities applying judgements to surface evidence of learning
- To evaluate both reflectively and with peers how observations and perceptions describe a picture of student learning that can be shared and compared
PD3 Course Structure
We think this course will take you approximately 3-4 hours to complete. We strongly encourage you to complete this course over multiple sittings – not all at once – to avoid a brain overload.
In this course, there are four sessions altogether as shown below:
Click Session 1 to begin the course.