Conceptual Change Teaching Strategy.doc

Conceptual Change Teaching Strategy Abstract: The concept of teaching has always been an important part of science teaching, focusing on the students is to change the original erroneous notion that conceptual change. Change the concept of the psychological process of mental model construction process, which involves three key steps, which recognizes unusual situation, create a new model, using the new model, teachers can use the system in which teaching strategies will help students to misconceptions change. Keywords: conceptual change; mental model; misconceptions The concept of teaching has always been an important part of science teaching, its purpose is to enable students to correct understanding of science concepts. However, before the students in learning the concept of a number of concepts have a simple understanding, this understanding is often inconsistent with the scientific meaning of the concept, so the concept becomes the focus of teaching the students to change the original simple understanding that the conceptual change. The teaching practice in primary and secondary teachers have discovered that there were some misconceptions of students are difficult to change. The reason, one of which is the misconception involves not only the students understanding of the concept of proposition itself, but also may involve students in the entire physical system, as well as the level of understanding of ontological categories (Figure 1). Figure 1 the concept of change in the degree of difficulty In cognitive psychology, mental models are usually characterized by the use of student understanding of physical systems of the world, only to fundamentally change the misconceptions of the mental model support in order to really achieve the purpose of conceptual change. Writer from the start the process of constructing mental models, conceptual change put forward three key steps, on this basis, a systematic combing of the conceptual change teaching strategies. Ont