The module attempts to provide student teachers in initial teacher education programmes with an understanding of school pupils they will be taking charge of.  To improve their teaching efforts, they will be exposed to individual differences in learning, diagnosis, and strategies to deal with different ability groups as represented in the Gifted, Express, Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) Streams.  Special effort will be devoted to helping the student teacher deal with critical incidents.  Lectures on showmanship, creativity, thinking skills, inquiry, telling and explaining will be included as the key elements in support of good teaching.

This module will introduce student teachers to physics curriculum development with respect to international and local trends.  The infusion of thinking, the meaningful integration of ICT and the linkage to national education, innovation and enterprise spirit will be given due attention and focus.  An understanding of the constructivist-inquiry approach, investigative problem-solving, meaningful demonstration and purposeful deductive inquiry will facilitate the teaching and learning of physics.  This module will also address alternative conceptions of student teachers on various physics topics.  Activities based on the physics curriculum and involving experiences that are hands-on, minds-on and experiential will be introduced to model how conceptual development and change can be facilitated.