Teaching Techniques for Designing Physics Learning Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Pre-service Teachers’ Lesson Plans
Keywords:
physics teaching technique, physics concepts, science process skills, five key competencies, pre-service teacherAbstract
This research had two aims: first, to analyze research articles on physics instruction during the COVID-19 crisis and determine teaching techniques that enhanced upper secondary students’ physics concept understanding, science process skills and five key competencies; second, to analyze the teaching techniques selected by pre-service physics teachers and how they applied them in lesson plans in an online context. A content analysis and an inductive coding were conducted on 79 selected research articles and 85 lesson plans in this study. The results showed that smartphone application, simulation and online clip video were the most frequently used to develop students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the findings showed that pre-service physics teachers integrated techniques of using digital instructional materials in their physics lesson plans based on various methods, such as explaining concepts, practicing science process skills and learning life skills through online group activities. Besides, the findings showed that the most frequently used teaching techniques were online video clips aimed at building students’ understanding of physics concepts, simulations for developing students’ science process skills, and online video clips with a set of questions for promoting students’ five key competencies.
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