2023年4月19日19:00-21:00，SSI-L项目组在腾讯会议室举行在线研讨活动，共议合作校课程设计，交流项目研究中遇到的问题。项目办与四所深入合作的合作校项目团队教师参与了本次研讨。
一、课程设计介绍
杭州保俶塔实验学校陈红梅老师代表学校项目团队分享初中八年级的SSI-L课程“一次性筷子”，分享了议题的五星图、迭代前后的两个版本的活动规划、已开展的活动及学生表现。保俶塔实验学校在SSI-L的设计和实施上积累了丰富的经验，建构起覆盖七、八年级的课程体系，围绕“水资源净化与富营养化”“全球变暖”“一次性筷子”等议题学习开发了相应的教材和学生活动手册。
二、合作校交流研讨
各校教师与项目办团队成员基于此案例积极展开研讨，聚焦在以下方面：一是把握议题中的冲突点，从“筷子从哪儿来、到哪儿去”等角度，进一步完善课程设计逻辑与框架；二是丰富课程内容与活动，侧重学生科学思维与能力的发展，促进学生围绕不确定性问题深入思考。项目负责人林静、项目学科指导专家组组长彭梦华均提出了如何优化议题设计的建议。
三、科学论证主题分享
随着项目研究的推进，四所合作校更加关注学生高阶思维与能力的发展。项目办团队成员何薇薇作了题为“社会性科学议题情境中的论证教学”的主题分享，分别从“论证是什么”“在课堂上，我们期待怎样的论证”“如何设计课堂论证”三个方面展开交流。
会议最后，与会者针对合作校在项目进展中遇到的问题展开进一步交流，切磋SSI-L教与学的有效研究。
On April 19, 2023, from 19:00 to 21:00, the SSI-L project team held a webinar via Tencent Meetings, discussed the curriculum design in partner schools, exchanged problems encountered in the project research. The Project Office and the teachers from the project teams of four partner schools participated in this webinar.
1. Introduction to the curriculum design
Chen Hongmei from Baochu Pagoda Experimental School Hangzhou, representing the school’s project team, presented the Grade 8 SSI-L curriculum “Disposable chopsticks”, shared the SSI teaching framework, both versions of activity planning before and after the iteration, the implemented activities and student performance. Based on its experience in SSI-L project design and practice, Baochu Pagoda Experimental School has constructed a curriculum system covering Grade 7 and Grade 8, developed teaching materials and student activity manuals on issue-based learning regarding “Water purification and eutrophication”, “Global warming”, “Disposable chopsticks”, etc.
2. Discussion among partner schools
Around this case, the partner school teachers and the Project Office team members actively participated in the discussion, with the focus on the following aspects: first, to grasp the conflict points in the issue, from the dimensions such as “Where do chopsticks come from, and where to go”, to further improve the logic and framework of curriculum design; second, to enrich the content and activities of the curriculum, with emphasis on the development of students’ scientific thinking and skills, to facilitate students’ in-depth thinking of uncertain questions. Lin Jing, the head of the SSI-L Project, and Peng Menghua, the leader of the SSI-L project subject guidance expert team, provided suggestions on how to optimize the curriculum design.
3. Presentation on scientific argumentation
As the project proceeded, the four partner schools are increasingly focusing on the development of students’ higher-order thinking and skills. He Weiwei, a member of the Project Office, delivered a presentation titled “Teaching scientific argumentation in the context of SSI”, and discussed the three aspects “What is argumentation”, “What kind of argumentation do we expect in the classroom”, and “How to design argumentation in the classroom”.
At the end of the meeting, the participants further exchanged views on the problems in the project encountered by the partner schools, and discussed the effective research on SSI-L teaching and learning.