This paper invites science teachers to reflect on their own stories of teaching and learning, to build meaning from their personal stories, and to apply their fresh insights to better understand themselves and their teaching. The significance of the research lies in its ability to share authentic stories that represent the experiences of a…

This paper is a narrative account of a critical classroom episode in the life of a beginning secondary science teacher. Emphasis is placed on a beginning science teacher's prior knowledge of effective science instruction and is used to guide on-going classroom practices to facilitate student learning. The story is created from classroom…

This qualitative study focuses on the classroom interactions of a high school science teacher and a resistant learner in a Grade 10 science class in Australia. Data are presented in the context of a creative nonfiction story based on experiences in a rural Australian high school. In the story, a science teacher lives up to the expectations of…