Defining knowledge domains for science teacher educators

Teaching With and About Nature of Science, and Science Teacher Knowledge Domains

The ubiquitous goals of helping precollege students develop informed conceptions of nature of science (NOS) and experience inquiry learning environments that progressively approximate authentic scientific practice have been long-standing and central aims of science education reforms around the globe. However, the realization of these goals continues to elude the science education community part...

Teacher Educators ' Conceptualisations and Practices towards Inquiry Based Science Teaching

Currently European teachers have to develop inquiry based science teaching [IBST] in order to enhance pupils' learning and motivation towards scientific objects. Such teaching approaches are learning-focused, and appear more complex than content-centred methods. This paper focuses on 8 science teachers who are involved both within professional networks and with part time in service teacher educ...

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Framework for Teachers and Teacher Educators

describes the type of teacher knowledge required to teach effectively with technology. Describing what teachers need to know can be difficult because teaching is an inherently complex, multifaceted activity which occurs in varied settings. By its nature, teaching is an ill-structured problem requiring reasoning about a wide range of interrelated variables such as the background knowledge that s...

Linking Teacher Educators, Knowledge, and the Quality of Practice in Schools

Knowledge of Specific Learning Disabilities among Teacher Educators in Puducherry, Union Territory in India

Though India has attained the literacy rate of 74 percent as per the 2011 Literacy Census Data, it still far behind to provide individual attention in Formal Education as well as NonFormal Education. The effort initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India strengthens the education quantitatively in the 10 & 11 Five Year Plan through inclusion of the Special Needs Children. In ...