New Perspectives in Science Education
Nicola Cutajar
Institution: Our Lady Immaculate School
Country: Malta
Nicola Cutajar has been teaching Physics for the past six years. She taught Physics for the first five years of her career at the Sacred Heart Minor Seminary, a Maltese secondary boys’ catholic school in the small island of Gozo. During the past year, she taught Physics and Integrated Science at Our Lady Immaculate, a girls’ Catholic school in Malta.
She graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Science Education with specialisation in Physics from the University of Malta.
Throughout these six years, she has been exploiting all the knowledge she gained throughout the course into practice with the use of objects and materials the students use everyday to simplify Physics concepts, thus aiming to maximise the learning experience of each and every student. In 2019, she collaborated with the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Malta and organised an Astronomy Night for the Physics students in Dwejra, Gozo. (the best place left in the Maltese archipelago from where to carry out astronomical observations).
In 2019, she graduated with a master’s degree in science education from the University of Malta. Her main area of research was whether students’ achievement in their ordinary level examinations have an impact on their performance in A level Physics.
Areas of interest: STEM Education, Curriculum Development, Students’ Assessment.
She graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Science Education with specialisation in Physics from the University of Malta.
Throughout these six years, she has been exploiting all the knowledge she gained throughout the course into practice with the use of objects and materials the students use everyday to simplify Physics concepts, thus aiming to maximise the learning experience of each and every student. In 2019, she collaborated with the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Malta and organised an Astronomy Night for the Physics students in Dwejra, Gozo. (the best place left in the Maltese archipelago from where to carry out astronomical observations).
In 2019, she graduated with a master’s degree in science education from the University of Malta. Her main area of research was whether students’ achievement in their ordinary level examinations have an impact on their performance in A level Physics.
Areas of interest: STEM Education, Curriculum Development, Students’ Assessment.
