Individual course details
Study programme			General Physics
Chosen research area (module)
Nature and level of studies			Undergraduate Studies
Name of the course			DIDACTICS OF PHYSICS
Professor (lectures)			Dr. Andrijana Žekić, Associate Professor
Professor/associate (examples/practical)
Professor/associate (additional)
ECTS		3	Status (required/elective)	required
Access requirements	General Physics 1, General Physics 2, General Physics 3, General Physics 4
Aims of the course	Introducing students with traditional and modern ways of transferring knowledge to students of primary and secondary schools. Developing didactic knowledge necessary for the development of the competences of future physics teachers.
Learning outcomes	Knowing the methods of transferring knowledge to students, ways of testing and developing students' knowledge, as well as modern ways of teacher education in order to gain competencies.
Contents of the course
Lectures	Didactics as a science discipline. Teaching as an educational process. Factors of teaching process. Didactic teaching systems. Types of tasks and forms of teaching. Didactic principles. Teaching methods. Inductive and deductive approach to teaching. The teaching class and its structure. Types of school classes. Practice in teaching. Curriculum. Teaching preparation. Knowledge test. Achievement of students. Cognitive development and misconceptions. Teacher competencies. Professional teacher training.
Examples/ practical classes
Recommended books
1	Tomislav Petrović, Didaktika fizike, Beograd, 1994.
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3
4
5
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures	Examples&practicals		Student project	Additional
2
Teaching and learning methods	Lectures (theoretical processing of thematic units), seminars.
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework		mark	examination	mark
coursework		10	written examination
practicals			oral examination	60
papers
presentations		30