ERIC Number: EJ847533
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Aug
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Capturing and Enhancing Science Teachers' Professional Knowledge
Berry, Amanda; Loughran, John; Smith, Kathy; Lindsay, Simon
Research in Science Education, v39 n4 p575-594 Aug 2009
This paper reports research from a three-year Australian science teacher professional learning project, the Science Teaching and Learning (STaL) Project, in which groups of science teacher participants (across years K-12) worked with academics over a one-year period as teacher researchers. Through reflecting on their experiences within the STaL Project and collecting data from their classrooms related to specific science teaching concerns, teacher participants constructed cases around particular aspects of their professional learning. The cases that these participants developed elicited rich insights into their teaching and their students' learning of science. This paper discusses how the cases were developed by the teacher researcher participants and uses exemplars as a way of illustrating the nature of the professional knowledge developed.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Science Education, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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