Classroom behaviour settings for science: What can pre-service teachers achieve?

Routines are a fundamental aspect of classroom life and much attention in recent years has focused on routines for management. The concept of ‘behaviour settings’ and transitions between them as classroom routines is explained and exemplified. This view of routines provides an explanation for the difficulties faced by relieving teachers and student teachers who enter classrooms at mid year and suggests how new routines for complex science activity may be introduced. Specializations: Science curriculum science teacher education, teacher