Professional Development

Our popular courses give you the chance to try new and creative ideas to take back and use immediately with your students. Content is delevoped in consultation with teachers and educational specialists to ensure it supports your individual needs and national priorities.

Talk Science teacher course

This hands-on one-day course provides tools and techniques for running effective and engaging class discussions about topical science at key stages 3 and 4.

‘The course gave me lots of ideas, and was delivered in a fun and interesting way. It has inspired me to run more discussion lessons in the future.’  KS4 teacher, York

On the Talk Science course you will:

  • create 'powerful questions' to stimulate class discussion
  • become familar with tried-and-tested classroom techniques for promoting discussion
  • learn facilitation skills
  • use Mystery Boxes, the Museum's hands-on classroom activity exploring How Science Works
  • have the opportunity to plan a discussion lesson for your students.

Lunch and refreshments are provided and you will receive ready-to-use classroom resources such as films and other materials from the course to take away.

The course is delivered by the Science Museum’s experienced training team.

Curriculum lnks

This course has been developed to support UK 11-16 Science curricula, PLTS and APP to promote student understanding of the applications and implications of science and to develop effective communication skills.

Dates

The course is running on Thursday 29 November (10.00-16.00).

Or we can bring the course to your school or Local Authority training day (minimum of 20 participants required). Please e-mail us for more information: learningresources@sciencemuseum.ac.uk. 

Cost

This course is free to attend but places must be pre-booked - see below.

Booking

Please download and complete the booking form and return to us by email or in the post. if you are booking for more than one person, please complete separate forms for each.

The form asks you to confirm that your school/organisation has given consent for you to attend; we are unable to process bookings without this. It also gives our booking terms and conditions on the second page.

Download the course booking form (Word document)

We will send confirmation by email that your place has been booked.

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