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Student-Centred Inquiry "as" Curriculum as a Model for Field-Based Teacher Education
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Oliver, Kimberly L.; Oesterreich, Heather A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
This research project focuses on teacher education in a field-based methods course. We were interested in understanding what "could be" when we worked with pre-service teachers in a high school physical education class to assist them in the process of learning to listen and respond to their students in ways that might better facilitate…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Centered Curriculum, Methods Courses, High Schools
Teaching Bernoulli's Principle through Demonstrations
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Brown, Patrick L.; Friedrichsen, Patricia M. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2011
One proven strategy to help students make sense of abstract concepts is to sequence instruction so students have exploratory opportunities to investigate science before being introduced to new science explanations (Abraham and Renner 1986; Renner, Abraham, and Birnie 1988). To help physical science teachers make sense of how to effectively…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education, Physical Sciences, Science Teachers
Views of Inquiry: Mismatches between Views of Science Education Faculty and Students of an Alternative Certification Program
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Demir, Abdulkadir; Abell, Sandra K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
The purpose of this phenomenographic study was to: (a) gain an understanding of the meaning of inquiry held by beginning science teachers and their instructors in an Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP); and (b) compare science teachers' views of inquiry with what they learned in their ATCP. Participants were four beginning science…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Observation, Interviews, Data Analysis
A Template for Open Inquiry: Using Questions to Encourage and Support Inquiry in Earth and Space Science
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Hermann, Ronald S.; Miranda, Rommel J. – Science Teacher, 2010
This article provides an instructional approach to helping students generate open-inquiry research questions, which the authors call the "open-inquiry question template." This template was created based on their experience teaching high school science and preservice university methods courses. To help teachers implement this template, they…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Space Sciences, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Preservice Mathematics and Science Teachers' Inquiry into New Literacy Practices of the Internet
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Truxaw, Mary; Olson, Mark – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2010
This paper articulates features of Internet literacy practices that preservice mathematics and science teachers found compelling and important for their pupils' learning. As part of secondary mathematics and science methods courses, 24 mathematics and science preservice teachers (PSTs) conducted a scaffolded investigation into the literacy…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Comprehension, Methods Courses, Inquiry
Secondary Science Emergency Permit Teachers' Perspectives on Power Relations in Their Environments and the Effects of These Powers on Classroom Practices
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Moscovici, Hedy – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
Various major publications such as the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the collection of research results regarding the use of inquiry methodology in the teaching and learning of science edited by Minstrell & van Zee (2000) recommend that science should be taught in the same way that it is…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Secondary School Science