GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

OUT OF SCHOOL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS/EBS118

Course Title:	OUT OF SCHOOL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Credits	2	ECTS	4
Course Semester	3	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

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-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Explain the importance of out-of-school learning environments in education / training
Explain the differences between out-of-school learning environments and formal education
Understands how to use out-of-school learning environments.
Develop appropriate educational materials to create effective out-of-school teaching and learning processes.
Create a plan for the use of out-of-school environments for learning / teaching purposes, manage the implementation process and foresee advantages and disadvantages.
Compares the out-of-school learning environment of different countries

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Course introduction
2. Week	Introduction of formal and informal learning environments.
3. Week	Use of out-of-school learning environments in education
4. Week	Importance and use of science and natural history museums in education
5. Week	Importance and use of out-of-school environments such as Science Center, zoo, library, botanical garden in education
6. Week	Creating a plan for the use of out-of-school settings for learning and teaching.
7. Week	Midterm Exam
8. Week	Planning activities and methods for using out-of-school environments for learning and teaching purposes.
9. Week	Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of out-of-school settings.
10. Week	Developing appropriate educational materials to build out-of-school teaching and learning processes.
11. Week	Out-of-school environments for learning purposes and evaluation of the implementation process management
12. Week	Developing appropriate educational materials to create effective out-of-school teaching and learning processes.
13. Week	Field trips, exhibitions and so on. layouts.
14. Week	Comparison of different countries' out-of-school learning environments and usage examples.
15. Week	Comparison of different countries' out-of-school learning environments and usage examples.
16. Week	Final exam

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	20
Assignment	1	20
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		40
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		60

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	2	28
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	2	2	4
Searching in Internet and Library	2	2	4
Material Design and Implementation	0	0	0
Report Preparing	2	3	6
Preparing a Presentation	1	2	2
Presentation	1	1	1
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	7	3	21
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	14	3	42
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			108
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			4.32
Course Credit (ECTS):			4

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Draws a relationship among the scientific theories, laws, phenomenon, models, concepts and knowledge and skills in other disciplines, and make use of these in explaining the daily life experiences.		X
2	Explains the scientific theories, laws, phenomenon, models and concepts by taking the science curriculum, the cognitive, psychomotor, affective characteristics and needs of students into consideration	X
3	Designs and performs laboratory activities by considering the aims of Science Curriculum, student characteristics and safety measures
4	Identifies, organizes and uses effectively the equipments and materials present in science laboratories, proposes solutions and alternatives for missing or broken materials, eliminates the laboratory waste by taking necessary safety precautions
5	Implements teaching activities that can give students insight about the historical developmenst and nature of science.		X
6	Implements teaching activities that can give students insight about the interaction between the scientific and technological developments, society and environment					X
7	Examines the science curriculum in terms of its vision, mission, learning areas, and objectives, follows the developments in the program and relates these developments with the developments in the history of Turkish National Education.	X
8	Selects the proper one among different teaching strategies, methods and techniques by considering the aims of science curriculum and student characteristics, and implements these in a way that ensure classroom management.		X
9	Plans the teaching process by considering the physical, cognitive, affective and cultural characteristics, misconceptions about the science topics, learning styles, strengths, weaknesses, interests and needs of student			X
10	Designs activities that improve scientific and technological literacy level and higher order thinking skills like critical thinking, creative thinking, analytical thinking skills of students	X
11	Develops diagnostic, formative or summative measurement and assessment instrument at every steps of learning-teaching process by considering different learning areas of the science curriculum or selects and implements the appropriate one among current instruments.
12	Uses traditional measurement and assessment instruments that measure knowledge as well as alternative and authentic measurement and assessment instruments that measure knowledge and skills while evaluating learning and teaching process in science
13	Uses appropriate statistical techniques to evaluate and interpret data obtained from a research process or a measurement instrument.
14	Plans the steps of research process to solve a problem in education process or daily life; selects and implements an appropriate research method and reports the whole research.		X
15	Benefits from information and communication technologies to access and share information, to increase the efficiency of instruction, and to follow current debates and innovations.			X
16	Designs instructional equipment and materials which support teaching process by considering the aim of science curriculum; selects and uses appropriate one among current equipment and materials
17	Organizes activities which can create awareness in students about local and universal problems in social, environmental, scientific and socioscientific areas and takes an active part in related projects.					X
18	Designs activities that can create positive attitudes and values in students about science and technology in the light of Atatürk revolutions and principles, fundamental purposes and principles of Turkish National Education			X
19	Uses Turkish efficiently to teach science related topics and to communicate in both written and verbal language as well as uses a foreign language sufficiently to follow the information in his/her area or to communicate with his/her colleagues.
20	Works in cooperation with school administration, colleagues, student parents and other related partners to carry out the instructional process efficiently both in and outside of the school.	X

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