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Direct linkLotta 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
Etkina, Eugenia; Gregorcic, Bor; Vokos, Stamatis – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Extant literature on teacher preparation suggests that preservice teachers learn best when they are immersed in a community that allows them to develop dispositions, knowledge, and practical skills and share with the community a strong vision of what good teaching entails. However, even if the requisite dispositions, knowledge, and skills in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Download full textWhite, Susan; Tyler, John – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2015
This report examines teachers' self-assessed preparedness to teach physics, their membership in professional organizations, and where they turn for help when they have questions. Almost every teacher reports feeling at least adequately prepared to teach basic physics knowledge and the application of physics to everyday experience. The smallest…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Physics, National Surveys, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Liaghatdar, Mohammad J.; Soltani, Asghar; Shojaei, Rashin; Siadat, Ali – International Education Studies, 2012
This study has examined the characteristics of physics teachers, their professional competences, supplies of equipments and technologies, appropriate textbooks and motivational factors in students' learning of physics from female physics teacher's points of view. The population included all female physics teachers in Isfahan city and a total of 88…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Physics, Teacher Competencies
Schneider, Rebecca M.; Krajcik, Joseph – 1999
Recent reforms in science education call for curricula designed to support students' construction of knowledge through inquiry. Teachers need to learn new methods and content to enact reform-based curriculum, and educative materials designed to address teacher as well as student learning are one vehicle for this type of reform. This paper…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Middle Schools
Hammer, David – 1999
The progressive agenda of science education reform, particularly the goal of promoting student inquiry, places substantial intellectual demands on teachers. If this reform is to succeed, the education community must do more to appreciate and address its demands. This paper presents three examples of high school physics teachers' conversations…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Evaluation, Inquiry
