Teaching element

Aims of the Teaching Element

The main aim of the teaching element is to equip students with essential science and engineering skills for their projects. Our apprenticeship approach is designed to The transition students who may have limited experience of scientific enquiry to more independent project work. Students start with simple tasks and gradually take on more responsibility, learning from examples of how scientists and engineers solve problems, so they become able to undertake independent research.

The teaching element also exposes students to a variety of interesting contemporary topics in science and engineering, from which they can identify the question or problem that they want to pursue in their investigation.

Case-based instruction

The pedagogy for the teaching element is case-based instruction - the method that is widely used in medical  and business schools to make students competent applying knowledge and skill to real-world situations.

Practising Science comes with a set of cases, which take students through the process that scientists and engineers have used to solve real problems. Teachers facilitate the process by introducing each case and guiding students through problem-solving, helping them learn the enquiry skills they will need later such as, defining questions and planning experiment, designing solutions and prototypes, and evaluating sources.