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Fulden Güler Nalbantoglu; Jale Çakiroglu; Özgül Yilmaz Tüzün – Online Submission, 2023
The study aimed to explore the integration of lesson study into science teacher education programs to enhance preservice science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for STEM. The lesson study cycle encompassed planning, teaching, reflecting, re-teaching, and re-reflecting phases, and the participants' experiences regarding PCK for STEM…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education Programs
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Gencer, Sinem; Akkus, Huseyin – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service chemistry teachers' orientations towards chemistry teaching during chemistry teaching method courses. This study was conducted with ten pre-service chemistry teachers for 28 weeks. The Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist (DASTT-C), card-sorting activity, interviews, observations, and reflection…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Student Attitudes
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Pellikka, Anne; Lutovac, Sonja; Kaasila, Raimo – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
This study examines pre-service primary school teachers' (PSTs') possible selves in relation to science teaching and the ways in which these possible selves change over time. This longitudinal study adds to the body of knowledge by examining PSTs' possible selves at various time points throughout their teacher preparation: three PSTs, selected…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Self Concept, Professional Identity
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Saritas, Davut; Yenen, Emin Tamer – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2020
In this study, it was aimed to determine the harmony and integration levels of the material prepared by the science teacher candidates with the methodical approach they adopted. In this case study, the data was obtained from observations of material practices and documents introducing the materials. In the study of 41 teaching materials prepared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education
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Uçak, Esra; Saka, Ceren – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of using Web 2.0 tools in the teaching of socioscientific issues on pre-service science teachers. A total of 24 senior pre-service science teachers attending a state university in the spring term of the 2021-2022 academic year participated in the study. The study was conducted with the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Science and Society
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Karisan, Dilek; Macalalag, Augusto; Johnson, Joseph – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of participating in a STEM methods course on pre-service teachers' awareness of and intentions to teach STEM subjects. Quantitative analysis was conducted of data gathered from 53 (41 female and 12 male) preservice science teachers from a teacher preparation program in a university in a small…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Intention
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Gonsalves, Allison J.; Sprowls, Emily Diane; Wiseman, Dawn – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has required educators at all levels to pivot instruction online. In this article, we consider methods we adopted to engage novice science teachers in approximations of teaching, online. We describe the principles of our science teacher education program and provide a rationale for the core feature of our science teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Kartal, Tezcan; Dilek, Irem – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Science teaching efficacy belief (STEB) is of paramount importance as it motivates teachers to teach science or hinders them from teaching science. Preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs may change during their method courses. Knowing how pre-service teachers' beliefs change over time can significantly contribute to teacher educators to improve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Science Teachers
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Menon, Deepika; Azam, Saiqa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate preservice elementary teachers' science teacher identity development during their participation in the field-based science methods course and a year after. Grounded within the Feiman-Nemser's thematic framework of learning to teach, this study utilized a case study approach aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Preservice Teacher Education
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Atasoy, Volkan; Cakiroglu, Jale – Educational Studies, 2019
This study investigated how preservice teachers develop collective efficacy when preparing lesson plans for a science methods course, and how this collective efficacy changed over time. The data were collected from four preservice science teachers working in a group to fulfil the requirements of the course. Findings revealed that four factors,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy
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Sasmaz Ören, Fatma – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The Instructional Group Activities Design (IGAD) refers to activities which aim to improve professional development and learning skills, in which a learning-centered teaching process is adopted and students study in small groups. The study aimed to both introduce the IGAD and determine pre-service science teachers' opinions on IGAs that were…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Faculty Development
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Bailie, Addisu Leyew – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
As teachers are being viewed as critical agents of educational change, conceptions and approaches of how to prepare teachers are changing. Among these changing conceptions of teacher preparation, the kinds of knowledge prospective teachers need to develop so as to be effective at teaching are often at the center of the debates. Pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Hastürk, Gamze; Dogan, Alev – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Effective use of educational technologies by teachers in classrooms has come into prominence as the integration of technology into educational settings in todays world is considered as an inseparable part of an effective teaching. Besides, recent teacher training curriculums too emphasize the use of teaching strategies including technology to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Education, Preservice Teachers, Educational Technology
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Murat Bursal – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
Thirty-nine American and 78 Turkish preservice elementary teachers' personal science teaching efficacy (PSTE) beliefs were investigated during science methods courses with standard and retrospective pre-post testing methods. Significant differences in the PSTE gain scores, which indicate the changes in the mean PSTE scores from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Methods Courses
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Vieira, Rodrigo Drumond; da Rocha Bernardo, José Roberto; Evagorou, Maria; de Melo, Viviane Florentino – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In this article, we focus on the contributions that a simulated jury-based activity might have for pre-service teachers, especially for their active participation and learning in teacher education. We observed a teacher educator using a series of simulated juries as teaching resources to help pre-service teachers develop their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Simulation
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