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Prospective Physical Sciences Teachers' Willingness to Engage in Learning Communities
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Leite, Laurinda – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
Teachers' professional development is a lifelong learning process that should start with teaching practice, is best developed from experience and can be promoted by socio-professional interactions. Thus, a learning community of teachers might be a valuable environment for continuing professional development. This paper reports research carried out…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Lifelong Learning, Student Teachers, Professional Development
Pre-Service Physics Teachers and Conceptual Difficulties on Temperature and Heat.
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Frederik, Ineke; Van Der Valk, Ton; Leite, Laurinda; Thoren, Ingvar – European Journal of Teacher Education, 1999
Used the lesson preparation method and interviews to investigate preservice physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, focusing on their knowledge of pupils' conceptual difficulties with temperature and heat. Results found a relationship between conceptual difficulties preservice teachers expected their pupils to have and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Heat, Higher Education, Lesson Plans
Heat and Temperature: An Analysis of How These Concepts Are Dealt with in Textbooks.
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Leite, Laurinda – European Journal of Teacher Education, 1999
Investigated how 11 9th-grade Portuguese physics textbooks dealt with heat and temperature and whether they were adequate information sources for students. Examination of ideas (which included correctness of concepts and arguments, global teaching approach, and learning activities) indicated that most of the textbooks were not consistent with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Heat, Science Education