A Case Study of Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge Development [electronic resource] / Hsiao-lin Tuan and Others.
The goals of secondary preservice science teacher education are to prepare future science teachers with competency in both science content knowledge and science teaching ability. The study reported in this paper investigated the development of pedagogical content knowledge of three preservice chemis...
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| Summary: | The goals of secondary preservice science teacher education are to prepare future science teachers with competency in both science content knowledge and science teaching ability. The study reported in this paper investigated the development of pedagogical content knowledge of three preservice chemistry teachers in Taiwan during one year of a practicum course. Qualitative ways of collecting data included semi-structured interviews before and after each teaching experience, classroom observation, and assignment collection. Interview questions addressed subjects' views of chemistry and the topics they taught, ways of transmitting content knowledge to students, and their views on general pedagogy. Results indicate that after experiencing one year of the practicum course preservice chemistry teachers' views of chemistry became simplified but their knowledge of teaching became more complicated and focused more on students' characteristics and learning styles than before. During the year the preservice teachers gained an awareness of the importance of pedagogical content knowledge in improving their future science teaching. Factors influencing preservice chemistry teachers' pedagogical content knowledge development were their preference, reflection ability, and deprived teaching repertoire. Suggestions for science teacher education are discussed. Contains 19 references. (Author/JRH) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED387335. Contract Number: NSC-83-0111-S-018-004. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (San Francisco, CA, April 22-25, 1995). |
| Physical Description: | 33 p. |