ERIC Number: EJ1122005
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
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Preservice Teachers' Learning to Plan Intellectually Challenging Tasks
Kang, Hosun
Journal of Teacher Education, v68 n1 p55-68 Jan-Feb 2017
This study explores how and under which conditions preservice secondary science teachers (PSTs) engage in effective planning practices that incorporate intellectually challenging tasks into lessons. Drawing upon a situative perspective on learning, eight PSTs' trajectories of participation in communities of practice are examined with a focus on planning throughout student teaching. Data include 32 sets of teaching artifacts, interviews with PSTs, interviews with methods course instructors, and interviews with mentor teachers. The analyses show that instructional tasks observed at the beginning of lessons link to the ways in which PSTs engage in the three interrelated processes of (a) framing instructional goals, (b) constructing a lesson scenario, and (c) addressing problems of practice. The consistencies and changes observed in the PSTs' trajectories of planning reveal the dynamic, responsive, and contentious nature of planning situated in local contexts. Three implications for designing productive learning opportunities for PSTs are discussed.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Student Teaching, Communities of Practice, Interviews, Mentors, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Teacher Education Programs, Science Teachers, Mixed Methods Research
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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