Full Description
This text provides a new approach to science teaching for student teachers, newly qualified and established science teachers wishing to re-examine their practice. The authors take full account of the new orders for the ITT national curriculum in science and ICT and address the need for all new teachers to meet the four standards required for NQT status, including scientific subject-knowledge. The book acknowledges the need for teachers to teach and learners to be given time to reconstruct this meaning for themselves. The importance of practical work is maintained but a rethinking of its place and purpose is proposed. Other issues confronting science teachers are addressed, including safety and assessment.
Contents
Part 1 Subject knowledgehave progressed over time. Part 2 Teaching and learning: an insight into how pupils learn and attempt to make sense of their surroundings. Part 3 Resources for teaching: how to use the laboratory, ICT and the life experiences of both pupil and teacher to support learning. Part 4 Class management, safety and other professional issues: how to keep pupils on task, safely and enthusiastically. Part 5 Assessment and recording: how to find out how well your teaching and their learning are progressing. Part 6 The professional science teacher: the broader picture of becoming a member of the science teaching profession.
