THE EXAMPLES OF PHYSICS CONCEPTS FORMATION BY THE USE OF KWL STRATEGY

Abstract

The goal of teaching should be to assist the students in creating a full understanding of a concept. A student who has formed a concept, knows more than just the definition of a term. Concept formation is deep conceptual learning rather than superficial knowledge of a vocabulary word. The goal of every learning strategy is to enable concept formation. The KWL strategy is initially developed as an instructional learning strategy that is used to guide students through a text; therefore it is rarely applied in teaching physics and science in general. The KWL strategy consists of: (1) accessing previous knowledge, (2) determining what one wants to know and (3) recalling what is learned. This strategy is designed in a form of a KWL chart with three columns as an organizing instrument: (K) What I Know, (W) What I Want to know and (L) What I Learned? The KWL strategy improves comprehension and helps students in concept formation. It can be very useful in teaching and learning physics, especially when the content should be learned from text. Instruction about implementation of KWL strategy in physics classes and example of its use for formation physics concept force is given in this paper.

Keywords

• Concept formation,KWL strategy,learning strategy,physics

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