Thinking about actions to take: Paying for Getting Things Done

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:

Try these

• emphasise that energy is essentially quantitative
• talk and act as if energy is a constraint on possibilities, not a cause of a process
• work with a clear ontology
• keeping power and energy separate

Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.

Avoid these

• allowing an endless list of kinds of energy
• using energy as cause

Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.