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Weiland, Ingrid S.; Morrison, Judith A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2013
To examine the notion of environmental education (EE) as context for integrating the elementary curricula, we engaged in a multi-case study analysis (Yin 2009) of two preservice elementary science methods courses that utilized an experiential reflective approach--case one (University A) through a science content focus (i.e., sustainability) and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses
Plonczak, Irene – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
This study was designed to examine benefits and challenges of teaching through videoconferencing in the context of students' field placement experiences, particularly as it relates to an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning math and science. In the context of mathematics and science methods courses, preservice teachers, with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Field Experience Programs, Grade 5
Seung, Eulsun; Bryan, Lynn A.; Butler, Malcolm B. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in preservice teachers' understanding of the nature of science (NOS) as a result of four activity-based interventions that represent three instructional approaches used in a middle grades science methods course. Ten participants' understanding of NOS and their perceptions about the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Scientific Principles, Science Teachers
Isabelle, Aaron D.; de Groot, Cornelis – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2008
In this study, we determined the effectiveness of the inquiry-based Itakura method for mediating alternate conceptions of preservice elementary teachers (N = 38) in an integrated mathematics, science, and technology methods course. We investigated alternate conceptions in the expansion of solids due to heating. There was a significant increase in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Misconceptions
Lewthwaite, Brian – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This inquiry uses teacher-candidate critiques of science lessons as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of an instructor's pedagogical approach to promote teacher candidate understanding of the nature of science (NOS) in a science methods course. Three cohorts of teacher candidates enrolled in a middle-years teacher education program were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
Kilic, Gulsen Bagci; Cakan, Mehtap – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
In this study, peer assessment was applied in assessing elementary science teaching skills. Preservice teachers taught a science topic as a team to their peers in an elementary science methods course. The peers participating in the science lesson assessed teacher-groups' elementary science teaching skills on an assessment form provided by the…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Teaching Skills, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
Capobianco, Brenda M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This self-study examined the 1st-year science teacher educator's integration of instructional technology into a science methods course and modeled the reflective practice of her own teaching. Elementary science methods students participated in a series of inquiry-based activities that utilized various instructional technologies. Data sources…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Beck, Judy – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to look at the use of the case method approach in relation to the preferred learning style of students in an elementary science methods course. Ninety-seven students enrolled in an elementary and elementary/middle level science methods course at Midwest university participated in this study. Participants completed a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Cognitive Style, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Matkins, Juanita Jo; Bell, Randy L. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This investigation assessed the impact of situating explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction within the issues surrounding global climate change and global warming (GCC/GW). Participants in the study were 15 preservice elementary teachers enrolled in a science methods course. The instructional intervention included explicit NOS instruction…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Spector, Barbara; Burkett, Ruth S.; Leard, Cyndy – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This is the report of a qualitative emergent-design study of 2 different Web-enhanced science methods courses for preservice elementary teachers in which an experiential learning strategy, labeled "using yourself as a learning laboratory," was implemented. Emergent grounded theory indicated this strategy, when embedded in a course organized as an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Grief, Participant Observation
Weinburgh, Molly – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This study explores the extent to which an activity used in an elementary science methods course affected the preservice teachers' content knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy. The participants were 172 students enrolled in five sections of elementary science methods. Students participated in a 9-week investigation on life cycles using…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Backhus, DeWayne A.; Thompson, Kenneth Wayne – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2006
The nature of science (NOS) has a prominent role among the national science education content standards at all grade levels, K-12. Results from a national survey of collegiate science educators indicate the perception that the greatest contributors to preservice teachers' understanding of the nature of science were science methods courses,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teacher Educators, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Sadler, Troy D. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2006
Given a sociocultural framework of teaching and learning, argumentation and discourse become central elements of education, particularly in science education because of argumentation's key role in scientific communities. This study documents preservice teachers' perceptions of and aptitudes related to argumentation as they participated in a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Student Attitudes
Smith, Leigh K.; Gess-Newsome, Julie – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2004
Despite the apparent lack of universally accepted goals or objectives for elementary science methods courses, teacher educators nationally are autonomously designing these classes to prepare prospective teachers to teach science. It is unclear, however, whether science methods courses are preparing teachers to teach science effectively or to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Education, Teacher Educators, Science Instruction