Constructing Meaning in a Science Methods Course for Prospective Elementary Teachers

A Case Study

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How do prospective elementary science teachers think? This case study
reveals thinking patterns common to preservice elementary teachers;
identifies their behavioral characteristics while learning to teach science which are not commonly noted in current literature;
provides change strategies to accelerate preservice elementary teachers embracing the holistic, constructivist, inquiry/practice-based paradigm consistent with the standards set by the curriculum.
The chapters in this book immerse the reader in a sequence of episodes in this science methods course, and reveal the adventure of turning theory into practice while analyzing student-student/student-instructor interactions and their outcomes in an inquiry-driven, flipped classroom.
Strategies presented empower preservice elementary teachers to
implement national and state standards;
change science learning/teaching from “business as usual” to applying science and engineering practices in the classroom;
make cognitive and behavioral changes required to shift paradigms and eliminate science anxiety;
pass through stages of grief inherent in the loss of dominant mechanistic paradigm.

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Preliminary Material
页码: i–xii
National Context
页码: 1–12
About the Course
页码: 13–28
Findings about Course Participants
页码: 29–45
Interventions
页码: 47–60
Applying Constructed Knowledge
Outcomes after Mid-Semester
页码: 61–69
Tying It All Together
页码: 71–81
Epilogue
页码: 83–85
Next Generation Science Standards
(Excerpted from NGSS Lead States, 2013)
页码: 87–88
References
页码: 105–109
About the Author
页码: 111
This book will interest a wide readership including science educators; scientists and engineers; administrators, supervisors, and elementary teachers in a clinical education setting; preservice elementary teachers; and anyone seeking to improve STEM education in elementary schools.
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