The Development of Preservice Elementary Science Teacher Education in Australia

Appleton, Ken; Ginns, Ian S.; Watters, James J.

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“…Physical Science Concepts Preservice elementary teachers' low self-efficacy in science has been reported in many studies (e.g., Appleton, Gins, & Watters, 2000;Dillon, Oxborne, Fairbrother, & Kurina, 2000;Jarvis & Pell, 2004). When I take informal polls of the students in my science content-based courses for elementary education majors, well over half of the students typically report that they do not like, or are not good at, science.…”

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The Stories They’d Tell: Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Writing Stories to Demonstrate Physical Science Concepts

Frisch

2010

Journal of Science Teacher Education

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Preservice teachers enrolled in a science content-based course wrote stories that could help their future students understand a science concept. First, participants chose their topic and wrote the story with few guidelines to establish a baseline. In the next part, a different set of students were given a choice of three topics (based on force, electricity, and heat misconceptions), and collaborated to write stories with guidance from the instructor. Stories were analyzed for narrative and science units, and test scores examined. Without guidance, many students struggled to find ways to integrate science within a story. With guidance, participants wrote stories that included more narrative elements overall, and participants felt the stories helped them understand the concepts.

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Section: The Stories They'd Tell: Preservice Elementary Teachers Writmentioning

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The Stories They’d Tell: Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Writing Stories to Demonstrate Physical Science Concepts

Frisch

2010

Journal of Science Teacher Education

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“…Primary (or elementary) teachers across the world tend to lack confidence in teaching science and promoting science learning (Appleton, Gins, & Watters, 2000;Dillon, Osborne, Fairbrother, & Kurina, 2000;Goodrum, Hackling, & Rennie, 2001;Harlen, 1997;Jarvis & Pell, 2004;Yager & Weld, 1999). In contrast, primary teachers are quite adept at literacy instruction (Akerson, Flick, & Lederman, 2000;El-Hindi, 2003).…”

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Writing an Ecological Mystery in Class: Merging genres and learning science

Ritchie

Rigano

Duane³

2008

International Journal of Science Education

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Reading and writing stories with science-related themes make it possible for students to develop interest in and capacity for scientific thinking when specialist science and more popular genres converge. As well, feminist scholars have called for greater use of creative-writing activities in school science to counter students' disengagement in participating in science discourses. Yet few studies have been conducted into how students construct meaning as fictional and non-fictional science genres are merged in writing activities. The purpose of this interpretive study was to investigate what happens as a class of fourth-grade children co-creates a publishable eco-mystery -that integrates both fiction and non-fiction -with their teacher. Interpretations are organized around two themes; namely, when genres clash, and scaffolding science learning. The study asserts that: the children's engagement and interest in the writing tasks were sustained across genres; and the children demonstrated fluency in their use of canonically accurate knowledge of ecological/biological concepts embedded in the eco-mystery with scaffolding from their teacher. Additional evidence suggests that the children's fluency with scientific registers had more than a short-term effect.

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Challenges of Elementary Science Teaching

Watters

2014

The Role of Science Teachers’ Beliefs in International Classrooms

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The Development of Preservice Elementary Science Teacher Education in Australia

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

The Stories They’d Tell: Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Writing Stories to Demonstrate Physical Science Concepts

The Stories They’d Tell: Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Writing Stories to Demonstrate Physical Science Concepts

Writing an Ecological Mystery in Class: Merging genres and learning science

Challenges of Elementary Science Teaching

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