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In the context of the emphasis on inquiry teaching in science education, this study looks into how pre-service elementary
teachers understand and practise science inquiry teaching during field experience. By examining inquiry lesson preparation,
practice, and reflections of pre-service elementary teachers, we attempt to understand the difficulties they encounter and
what could result from those difficulties in their practice. A total of 16 seniors (fourth-year students) in an elementary
teacher education program participated in this study. In our findings, we highlight three difficulties ‘on the lesson’ that are related to teaching practices that were missing in the classrooms: (1) developing children’s own ideas and curiosity,
(2) guiding children in designing valid experiments for their hypotheses, (3) scaffolding children’s data interpretation and
discussion and another three difficulties ‘under the lesson’ that are related to problems with the pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the task: (4) tension between guided and
open inquiry, (5) incomplete understanding of hypothesis, and (6) lack of confidence in science content knowledge. Based on
these findings, we discuss how these difficulties are complexly related in the pre-service teachers’ understandings and action.
Several suggestions for science teacher education for inquiry teaching, especially hypothesis-based inquiry teaching, are
then explored. 相似文献
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Susanne A. Denham Hideko H. Bassett Katherine Zinsser 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(3):137-143
Young children’s emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and experience when necessary, and knowledge
of their own and other’s emotions—is crucial for social and academic (i.e., school) success. Thus, it is important to understand
the mechanisms of how young children develop emotional competence. Both parents and teachers are considered as important socializers
of emotion, providing children experiences that promote or deter the development of emotional competence. However, compared
to parents, early childhood teachers’ roles in socializing young children’s emotional competence have not been examined. Based
on the findings from research on parental socialization of emotion, in this theoretical review we explore possible teacher
roles in the development of young children’s emotional competence. Additionally, we suggest future research focusing on early
childhood teacher socialization of emotion, and discuss theoretical and practical benefits of such research. 相似文献
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In this paper we report on teachers’ and students’ participation in authentic science research in out of school time science
clubs at elementary schools. In the program four to five teachers worked alongside practicing scientists as part of their
research groups. Each teacher facilitated a club with 10–15 students who, by extension, were members of the scientists’ research
groups. Over the 3 years of the project nearly 30 teachers and over 500 children participated in the clubs. In this paper
we present a case study of teachers and children who worked with an analytic chemist at a major university whose field of
research is environmental arsenic. We illustrate how the professor mentored the teachers and how they in turn mentored the
children. We show how the elementary school teachers who had very little formal science education gained the expertise needed
to mentor the children. We found that in less than one academic year the teachers were able to gain the knowledge and skills
to facilitate the children’s legitimate participation in authentic scientific research; and that the children gained the methodological
and intellectual proficiency needed to contribute useful data and findings to the scientist’s research program. 相似文献
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Bhaskar Upadhyay 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(3):569-586
This study draws upon a qualitative case study to investigate the impact of the high-stakes test environment on an elementary
teacher’s identities and the influence of identity maintenance on science teaching. Drawing from social identity theory, I
argue that we can gain deep insight into how and why urban elementary science teachers engage in defining and negotiating
their identities in practice. In addition, we can further understand how and why science teachers of poor urban students engage
in teaching decisions that accommodate school demands and students’ needs to succeed in high-stakes tests. This paper presents
in-depth experiences of one elementary teacher as she negotiates her identities and teaching science in school settings that
emphasize high-stakes testing. I found that a teacher’s identities generate tensions while teaching science when: (a) schools
prioritize high-stakes tests as the benchmark of teacher success and student success; (b) activity-based and participatory
science teaching is deemphasized; (c) science teacher of minority students identity is threatened or questioned; and (d) a
teacher perceives a threat to one’s identities in the context of high stakes testing. Further, the results suggest that stronger
links to identities generate more positive values in teachers, and greater possibilities for positive actions in science classrooms
that support minority students’ success in science.
Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Bhaskar Upadhyay is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on equity and social justice issues in science education; sociocultural influences on teaching and learning of science; and issues of teaching and learning science to immigrant children and parents. He teaches courses concerning equity, diversity, social justice, and multicultural education issues in science teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Anderson Norton Andrea McCloskey Rick A. Hudson 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2011,14(4):305-325
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of an experimental elementary mathematics field experience course, we have designed
a new assessment instrument. These video-based prediction assessments engage prospective teachers in a video analysis of a
child solving mathematical tasks. The prospective teachers build a model of that child’s mathematics and then use that model
to predict how the child will respond to a subsequent task. In this paper, we share data concerning the evolution and effectiveness
of the instrument. Results from implementation indicate moderate to high degrees of inter-rater reliability in using the rubric
to assess prospective teachers’ models and predictions. They also indicate strong correlation between participation in the
experimental course and prospective teachers’ performances on the video-based prediction assessments. Such findings suggest
that prediction assessments effectively evaluate the pedagogical content knowledge that we are seeking to foster among the
prospective teachers. 相似文献
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Children with moderate learning disabilities often fail to qualify for special education programs in public schools, but are
ill-suited for placement in private schools concerned with the severely disabled. Parents of such children may place their
hopes in the promises of private teachers or clinics. Yet the quality of services provided in the private sector varies widely.
This paper describes a model program against which parents and private service providers can measure the strengths and weaknesses
of the programs they are concerned with. The model places special emphasis on thorough evaluation, frequent reevaluation,
staff accountability, program flexibility, and recognition of the parents’ role in the child’s education. 相似文献
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Embedding interactive whiteboards in teaching and learning: The process of change in pedagogic practice 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Cathy Lewin Bridget Somekh Stephen Steadman 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(4):291-303
This paper draws on research carried out for the UK government during 2004–2006 to evaluate the impact of interactive whiteboards
for teaching and learning in primary schools in England. Multilevel modelling showed positive gains in literacy, mathematics
and science for children aged 7 and 11, directly related to the length of time they had been taught with an interactive whiteboard
(IWB). These gains were particularly strong for children of average and above average prior attainment. Classroom observations,
together with teacher and pupil interviews, were used to develop a detailed account of how pedagogic practice changed. Results
from the multilevel modelling enabled the researchers to visit the classrooms of teachers whose pupils had made exceptional
progress and seek to identify what features of pedagogy might have helped to achieve these gains. It was also possible to
examine possible reasons for the lack of impact of IWBs on the progress of low prior attainment pupils, despite their enthusiasm
for the IWB and improved attention in class. The IWB is an ideal resource to support whole class teaching. Where teachers
had been teaching with an IWB for 2 years and there was evidence that all children, had made exceptional progress in attainment
in national tests, a key factor was the use of the IWB for skilled teaching of numeracy and literacy to pairs or threesomes
of children. Young children with limited writing skills, and older pupils with special educational needs are highly motivated
by being able to demonstrate their skills and knowledge with the tapping and dragging facilities of the IWB. These effects
are greatest when they have the opportunity, individually or in small groups, for extended use of the IWB rather than as part
of whole class teaching. The IWB is in effect a mediating artefact in interactions between teacher and pupils, and when teachers
use an IWB for a considerable period of time (at least 2 years), teachers learn how to mediate the greatly increased number
of possible interactions to best aid pupils’ learning. The IWB’s use becomes embedded in their pedagogy as a mediating artefact
for their interactions with their pupils, and pupils’ interactions with one another, and this is when changes in pedagogic
practice become apparent. 相似文献
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Susan A. Kirch Mary Ellen Bargerhuff Heidi Cowan Michele Wheatly 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(4):663-692
General education science teachers are meeting increasingly diverse classrooms of students that include students with disabilities.
A one-week, summer, residential workshop was offered to interested science and special educators who worked through lab experiments
one-on-one with students with physical or sensory disabilities (grades 7-12). To determine how effective this professional
development workshop was at raising disability awareness and providing teacher training in inclusive science teaching practices,
a combination of survey and reflective journal entries was used to monitor participants’ experience. Here we discuss the findings
from this benchmark study and discuss how others might adapt this professional development model for use by schools interested
in moving toward inclusive practices. 相似文献
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Philip M. Keys 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(1):41-60
This study describes a theoretical knowledge filter model that explains how teacher knowledge (beliefs and practices) shaped
the implementation of a science curriculum in Australia. Over four school terms, four elementary and three secondary teachers
participated in the study. Through the methodology of educational criticism (Eisner, 1991, The enlightened eye. New York: Macmillan) the results revealed that, in relation to their teaching, the teachers possessed three sets of beliefs:
teachers’ expressed beliefs, teachers’ entrenched beliefs and teachers’ manifested beliefs. The outcome of this study is a
model for identifying and observing the impact of teachers’ beliefs that can be utilised in facilitating change in education
and in influencing communities of practice. 相似文献
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Amy E. Ryken 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(5):347-364
This documentary account situates teacher educator, prospective teacher, and elementary students’ mathematical thinking in
relation to one another, demonstrating shared challenges to learning mathematics. It highlights an important mathematics reasoning
skill—creating and analyzing representations. The author examines responses of prospective teachers to a visual representation
task and, in turn, their examination of school children’s responses to mathematical tasks. The analysis revealed the initial
tendency of prospective teachers to create pictorial representations and highlights the importance of looking beyond the pictures
created to how prospective teachers use mathematical models. In addition, the challenges prospective teachers face in moving
beyond a ruled-based conception of mathematics and a right/wrong framework for assessing student work are documented. Findings
suggest that analyzing representations helps prospective teachers (and teacher educators) rethink their teaching practices
by engaging with a culture of teaching focused on reading for multiple meanings and posing questions about student thinking
and curriculum materials. 相似文献
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In this study we investigate a strategy for engaging high school mathematics teachers in an initial examination of their teaching in a way that is non-threatening and at the same time effectively supports the development
of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge [Shulman (1986). Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4–14]. Based on the work undertaken by the QUASAR project with middle school mathematics teachers, we engaged a group
of seven high school mathematics teachers in learning about the Levels of Cognitive Demand, a set of criteria that can be
used to examine mathematical tasks critically. Using qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, we sought to understand
how focusing the teachers on critically examining mathematical tasks influenced their thinking about the nature of mathematical
tasks as well as their choice of tasks to use in their classrooms. Our research indicates that the teachers showed growth
in the ways that they consider tasks, and that some of the teachers changed their patterns of task choice. Further, this study
provides a new research instrument for measuring teachers’ growth in pedagogical content knowledge.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA, April 2002. 相似文献
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The use of portfolio assessment is a valuable tool for teachers to use with young children to better understand how young
children develop and learn. An intentional data collection and documentation system becomes a very powerful assessment tool,
one that is authentic and based on children’s capabilities and strengths. Children, educators, parents, and administrators
are able to see the collection of items that celebrates the child. This article will describe several aspects of the portfolio
system including: what a portfolio is; it’s purposes; how to create the portfolio; and, how to use the portfolio with families. 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to describe collaborative teaching between preschool teachers, adapted physical educators, physical
therapists, and occupational therapists of motor skills for preschoolers with developmental delays. The motor domain is typically
taught by the classroom teacher who may have little to no knowledge of how to initiate a motor program. For this reason, a
collaborative approach in teaching the motor domain facilitates developing preschool readiness skills such as motor imitation,
bilateral coordination and sequencing, and spatial awareness—all while taking the child’s special needs into consideration.
The team also collaborates on teaching strategies, behavioral supports, and how they will keep the activities fun to facilitate
active participation. The team members work in synchrony for common goals, providing input from their individual areas of
expertise, so the children can learn and generalize skills across all environments. 相似文献
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Patricia S. Moyer 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2001,47(2):175-197
Teachers often comment that using manipulatives to teach mathematics is ‘fun!’ Embedded in the word ‘fun’ are important notions
about how and why teachers use manipulatives in the teaching of mathematics. Over the course of one academic year, this study
examined 10 middle grades teachers’ uses of manipulatives for teaching mathematics using interviews and observations to explore
how and why the teachers used the manipulatives as they did. An examination of the participants’ statements and behaviors
indicated that using manipulatives was little more than a diversion in classrooms where teachers were not able to represent
mathematics concepts themselves. The teachers communicated that the manipulatives were fun, but not necessary, for teaching
and learning mathematics.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Shirly Avargil Orit Herscovitz Yehudit Judy Dori 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(2):207-225
For an educational reform to succeed, teachers need to adjust their perceptions to the reform’s new curricula and strategies
and cope with new content, as well as new teaching and assessment strategies. Developing students’ scientific literacy through
context-based chemistry and higher order thinking skills was the framework for establishing a new chemistry curriculum for
Israeli high school students. As part of this endeavor, we developed the Taste of Chemistry module, which focuses on context-based chemistry, chemical understanding, and higher order thinking skills. Our research
objectives were (a) to identify the challenges and difficulties chemistry teachers faced, as well as the advantages they found,
while teaching and assessing the Taste of Chemistry module; and (b) to investigate how they coped with teaching and assessing thinking skills that include analyzing data from
graphs and tables, transferring between multiple representations and, transferring between chemistry understanding levels.
Research participants included eight teachers who taught the module. Research tools included interviews, classroom observations,
teachers-designed students’ assignments, and developers-designed students’ assignments. We documented different challenges
teachers had faced while teaching the module and found that the teachers developed different ways of coping with these challenges.
Developing teachers’ assessment knowledge (AK) was found to be the highest stage in teachers’ professional growth, building
on teachers’ content knowledge (CK), pedagogy knowledge (PK), and pedagogical-content knowledge (PCK). We propose the use
of assignments designed by teachers as an instrument for determining their professional growth. 相似文献
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Assessment of students’ learning in school is deeply implicated in teaching for social justice. Yet classroom assessment is
neglected relative to other aspects of curriculum and pedagogy in the literature on teaching for social justice. Some books
have a relatively clear theory of anti-oppression education at their core but do not provide details about the links between
assessment and their anti-oppression theory, while others provide a more detailed view of assessment practices but do not
specify precisely how particular assessment strategies either promote or hinder anti-oppression education. This article provides
a theoretical framework that spotlights key links between teaching for social justice and classroom assessment. To illustrate
these connections, we draw on guided group discussions with ten high school social studies and English teachers, interested
in pursuing professional development in this area. We conceptualize assessment as a set of institutional processes with the
potential either to inhibit or nurture the development of young people as well as their capacity for self-determination. We
analyze: (a) how teachers, through various assessment practices, can attempt to enable equitable relations within and beyond
the classroom; and (b) performance standards aimed at helping teachers assess their students’ progress toward becoming more
socially responsible and, ultimately, more self-determining. We conclude that even as teachers struggle to enact more socially
just assessment practices, they need to communicate clearly with students and parents about what constitutes equitable assessment
and what institutional practices, by contrast, sow seeds of self-doubt and lead to destructive labeling, ranking, and gate
keeping. 相似文献
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Current reform-driven mathematics documents stress the need for teachers to provide learning environments in which students
will be challenged to engage with mathematics concepts and extend their understandings in meaningful ways (e.g., National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000, Curriculum and evaluation standards for school mathematics. Reston, VA: The Council). The type of rich learning contexts that are envisaged by such reforms are predicated on a number
of factors, not the least of which is the quality of teachers’ experience and knowledge in the domain of mathematics. Although
the study of teacher knowledge has received considerable attention, there is less information about the teachers’ content
knowledge that impacts on classroom practice. Ball (2000, Journal of Teacher Education, 51(3), 241–247) suggested that teachers’ need to ‘deconstruct’ their content knowledge into more visible forms that would
help children make connections with their previous understandings and experiences. The documenting of teachers’ content knowledge
for teaching has received little attention in debates about teacher knowledge. In particular, there is limited information
about how we might go about systematically characterising the key dimensions of quality of teachers’ mathematics knowledge
for teaching and connections among these dimensions. In this paper we describe a framework for describing and analysing the
quality of teachers’ content knowledge for teaching in one area within the domain of geometry. An example of use of this framework
is then developed for the case of two teachers’ knowledge of the concept ‘square’. 相似文献
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Zeynep Isik-Ercan 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(2):133-142
This retrospective study is an in-depth investigation of the perspectives of Turkish immigrant parents on their children’s
early schooling in the United States (PreK-3). It specifically explores how these parents connect with or are disconnected
from school culture, and how their socio-cultural understanding of education and teachers influence their relationships with
schools. Using a qualitative research design, data were collected through in-depth interviews with 18 parents from 10 families.
Findings suggest that Turkish parents negotiated the ways curriculum and instruction is constructed in American schools—such
as their assumptions about the lack of academic rigor—while they also embraced sound pedagogies the teachers practiced. Through
their experiences with schooling in the United States, Turkish parents reconsidered their sociocultural perspectives on the
role of the teacher in their children’s lives based on their experiences with their children’s teachers. The parents also
reported their challenges in understanding school culture and curriculum, and described how they negotiated their access to
the school culture. The results indicate the need for a stronger partnership between home and school. Teachers could support
parents in their struggle to access to the culture of schooling by establishing an eagerness for communication and a reciprocal
personal connection with families, who already socioculturally assume the teacher’s role as part of family. 相似文献
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Douglas P. Newton Lynn D. Newton 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(2):327-345
If children are engaged in science lessons, their learning is likely to be better and, in the long term, careers in science
and technology will remain open. Given that attitudes can develop early and be difficult to change, it is important for teachers
of younger children to know how to foster engagement in science. This study identified what a cohort of 79 pre-service teachers
in England considered to be engaging elementary science lessons and compared their notions with teacher behaviours known to
be conducive to engagement. First, all brought beliefs about how to engage children in science lessons to their training.
They tended to favour children’s hands-on activity as an effective means of fostering attentive participation in learning,
although many had additional ideas. Nevertheless, the means and ends of their ‘pedagogies of engagement’ tended to be simple
and narrow. Trainers need to ensure that notions of engagement are wide enough to cope with a variety of teaching situations,
as when hands-on experience is not feasible, effective or appropriate. At the same time, teachers will need to recognise that
one approach may not suit all learners. Without this, there is the risk that they will lack the skills to engage children
in science. Nevertheless, these beliefs could offer a useful starting point for trainers who wish to widen pre-service teachers’
conceptions of engagement and increase their repertoire of teaching behaviours. 相似文献