Describes an inservice program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of elementary school teachers with regard to science content, effective teaching strategies, and gender equity. Finds that the project has a positive impact on science teaching content and pedagogy, and on female student interest and active participation in science.…

The specialist knowledge and skills of science teachers is far too easily overlooked and undervalued, due, in part, to the tacit nature of the knowledge that underpins expert science teachers' practice. For science teachers to better recognize, describe, and share their professional knowledge there is a need to develop new and meaningful ways…