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Lotta Jons; John Airey – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
This study reports findings from an interview study with eleven teacher educators from a physics teacher training program in Finland. They represented the four training environments that students encounter during their education, i.e. the Department of Physics, the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, the Department of General…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education
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Nkanyani, Tebogo E.; Mudau, Awelani V. – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to explore the teaching of senior phase of Natural Sciences with a focus on the Planet Earth and beyond knowledge strand. A qualitative case study design was used. Semi-structured interviews and observations were employed to collect data from two purposefully chosen teachers. The results of the study showed that some…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competencies
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Büssing, Alexander Georg; Menzel, Susanne; Schnieders, Maxime; Beckmann, Valerie; Basten, Melanie – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
As several countries have committed themselves to the promotion of inclusive school systems, teachers might feel overwhelmed by the additional competencies needed for inclusive teaching. Beyond an increase in specialised knowledge, these competencies include a coherent belief system to facilitate the adoption of inclusive practices. Currently,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Inclusion, Teacher Competencies
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Kallery, Maria – Research in Science Education, 2018
In this paper, we present a professional development/upgrading programme in science for early-years teachers and investigate its impact on the teachers' competencies in relation to their knowledge and teaching of science. The basic idea of the programme was to motivate the teachers by making them members of an action research group aimed at…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Faculty Development, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competencies
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Yangin, Selami; Sidekli, Sabri – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The measurement of teacher self-efficacy has a history of more than 30 years. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the development and validation of a new scale to measure the science teaching self-efficacy of elementary school teachers. Therefore, a scale has been created to measure elementary teachers' science teaching self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Elementary School Teachers, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Van Eck, Richard N.; Guy, Mark; Young, Timothy; Winger, Austin T.; Brewster, Scott – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
The need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors for our future workforce is growing, yet fewer students are choosing to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics areas, and many are underprepared, in part because elementary school preservice teachers are also underprepared. This National Science…
Descriptors: Video Games, STEM Education, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers
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Teo, Tang Wee; Ke, Kaijie Justin – Theory Into Practice, 2014
As former and current STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) school teachers in Singapore, we explore the challenges we both experienced while teaching at different STEM schools. Through this article, we make a case for the teacher preparation programs locally and around the world to give more attention to a changing education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, STEM Education, Science Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Aydin, Sevgi; Demirdögen, Betül; Muslu, Nilay; Hanuscin, Deborah L. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2013
A number of science education policy documents recommend that students develop an understanding of the enterprise of science and the nature of science (NOS). Despite this emphasis, there is still a gap between policy and practice. Teacher professional literature provides one potential venue for bridging this gap, by providing "activities that…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Scientific Concepts
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Demirdögen, Betül; Aydin, Sevgi; Tarkin, Aysegül – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
In this self-study, we aimed to delve into how re-designing and teaching re-designed practicum course offered to pre-service teachers (PTs) enriched our, as science teacher educators, development of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching science teachers. This self-study was conducted during a compulsory practicum course in which we…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction, Teacher Educators
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Wang, Ya-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Wei, Shih-Hsuan – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the factors accounting for science teaching self-efficacy and to examine the relationships among Taiwanese teachers' science teaching self-efficacy, teaching and learning conceptions, technological--pedagogical content knowledge for the Internet (TPACK-I), and attitudes toward Internet-based instruction (Attitudes)…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
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Masters, Jennifer; Carolan, James; Draaisma, Graeme – Australian Educational Computing, 2013
The La Trobe University iteration of the Teaching Teachers for the Future (TTF) project focused initially on subject in the second semester, third year of the Bachelor of Education course called the Multi-Disciplinary Science & Technology Integrated Experience (MSTIE). Two pairs of pre-service teachers were placed in the school where the TTF…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration
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Smith, Greg – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This study investigates the influence of a two-year professional development programme on primary teachers' attitudes towards primary science, their confidence and competence in teaching science, and pupils' attitudes towards school science. Unlike the traditional "one-size-fits all" model of professional development, the model developed…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
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Selcuk, Gamze Sezgin – European Journal of Physics, 2011
The aim of this study is to investigate pre-service teachers' understanding of and difficulties with some core concepts in the special theory of relativity. The pre-service teachers (n = 185) from the Departments of Physics Education and Elementary Science Education at Dokuz Eylul University (in Turkey) participated. Both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Physics, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
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Basson, Ilsa; Kriek, Jeanne – Perspectives in Education, 2012
South African schools have been confronted with educational reform since the mid-nineties and the process is still continuing. The concomitant changes put a very high demand on physical sciences teachers and also have an impact on teacher behaviour. The purpose of this study was to probe whether teachers could be considered equipped to teach the…
Descriptors: Physics, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews
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Lyon, Edward G. – Science Education, 2013
Although studies have documented teachers' growth in assessing science resulting from professional development or science methods courses, little attention has been given to growth while being prepared to assess a linguistically diverse student population. In this study, the growth of 11 secondary science preservice teachers is documented by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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