Course curriculum

  • 1

    Pre-Workshop Preparation

    • Welcome to Teaching Science Holistically - An International Teacher Fellowship and Workshop (Athar Osama)

    • Pre-Workshop Benchmarking Questionnaire (45mins)

    • Science Lesson Plan Submission (3mins)
  • 2

    Day 1 Session 1 Orientation: What is Holistic Science (Athar Osama & Nidhal Guessoum)

    • Session Assessment - S1.1 (10mins)

    • Quiz #1.1 (5mins)
  • 3

    Day 1 Session 2: The Nature of Science (Nidhal Guessoum)

    • Session Assessment - S1.2 (10mins)
  • 4

    Day 1 Session 3: The Nature of Philosophy (Noman ul Haq)

    • Session Assessment - S1.3 (10mins)

    • Quiz # 1.2 - What type of Question is this? (15mins)
  • 5

    Day 1 Session 4: Curiosity and Questions in the Classroom: Lessons from STEMx (Athar Osama)

    • Session Assessment - S1.4 (10mins)
  • 6

    Day 1 Session 5: What Happens in a Pakistani Classroom (Faisal Bari)

    • Session Assessment - S1.5 (10mins)
  • 7

    Day 1 Session 6: Big Questions in the Classroom (Nidhal Guessoum & Noman ul Haq, moderated by Athar Osama)

    • Session Assessment - S1.6 (10mins)

    • Assignment #1 (30mins)
  • 8

    Day 2 Session 1 - Neo Biology and the Questions it Raises (Faisal Khan)

    • Session Assessment - S2.1 (10mins)
  • 9

    Day 2 Session 2 - What Every Teacher Should Know about Science (Sabieh Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S2.2 (10mins)
  • 10

    Day 2 Session 3 - Lesson Plan Clinic I (Tasneem Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S2.3 (10mins)

    • Quiz #3 (5mins)

    • Assignment 2 - UbD Lesson Plan Outline (Submission)
  • 11

    Day 2 Session 4 - Questions in an Astronomy Classroom (Nidhal Guessoum)

    • Session Assessment - S2.4 (10mins)
  • 12

    Day 2 Session 5 - Questions in a Technology Classroom (Muhammed Abubakr)

    • Session Assessment - S2.5 (10mins)
  • 13

    Day 2 Session 6 - Lesson Plan Clinic 2 (Tasneem Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S2.6 (10mins)

    • Assignment #3 - (20mins)

    • Assignment #4: Draft Lesson Plan - Stage 1 (Submission)
  • 14

    Day 3 Session 1 - Islam and Science (Nidhal Guessoum)

    • Session Assessment - S3.1 (10mins)
  • 15

    Day 3 Session 2 - What Every Science Teacher Should Know and More (Sabieh Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S3.2 (10mins)

    • Quiz #4 (10mins)
  • 16

    Day 3 Session 3 - Lesson Planning Clinic - III (Tasneem Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S3.3 (10mins)
  • 17

    Day 3 Session 4 - Science, Beauty, and Art (Noman ul Haq and Sabieh Anwar)

    • Session Assessment - S3.4 (10mins)
  • 18

    Day 3 Session 5 - Technology and Big Questions (Muhammed Abubakr)

    • Session Assessment - S3.5 (10mins)

    • Quiz #5 (10mins)
  • 19

    Day 3 Session 6 - New Biology and Big Questions (Faisal Khan)

    • Session Assessment - S3.6 (10mins)
  • 20

    Day 4 Session 1 - Presentations (Nidhal Guessoum and Athar Osama)

    • Session Assessment - S4.1 (10mins)
  • 21

    Day 4 Session 2 - Good Teaching Practice (Faisal Bari)

    • Session Assessment - S4.2 (10mins)

    • Assignment #5: Draft Lesson Plan - Stage 2 and 3 (Submission)

    • Assignment #6 (30mins)

    • Quiz # 6 - Lets Try this Again: What type of Question is this? (15mins)
  • 22

    Day 5 Session 1 - Ask Me Anything (Nidhal Guessoum, Athar Osama, and others).

    • Session Assessment - S5.1 (10mins)
  • 23

    Day 5 Session 2 - Where do we go from Here? (Athar Osama)

    • Session Assessment - S5.2 (10mins)
  • 24

    Final Submission - Holistic Lesson Plan

    • Assignment #7: Holistic Lesson Plan - Final Submission
  • 25

    Pre-Implementation Diagnostic

    • Pre-Implementation Assessment - I1 (10mins)
  • 26

    Teacher Survey: Checkpoint 1

    • First Checkpoint Assessment - I2 (10mins)

    • Assignment #8: Modified Holistic Lesson Plan Submission
  • 27

    End of Fellowship Survey

    • End of Fellowship Benchmarking Questionnaire (60mins)

    • Assignment #9: One Exemplar Holistic Science Lesson Plan