Essential natural science. Teacher's resource pack.

Recurso para el profesor que enseña ciencias naturales a través del inglés, en el primer curso de la enseñanza secundaria obligatoria (ESO). Temas tales como: la atmósfera de la Tierra; los átomos y elementos; el universo y los vertebrados, se presentan de manera clara y fácil de entender con un lenguaje que permite a los estudiantes a comprender los puntos clave. Además, hace hincapié en la autonomía del aprendizaje y ayuda a los alumnos a analizar y razonar a través de investigaciones sencillas. Incluye CD con presentaciones de PowerPoint, páginas web, audio y hojas de actividades.

Science teacher leadership for transforming the curriculum and classroom practice

While teacher leadership is the basis for innovation and reform within schools, few international studies have focused on the leadership practices of science teachers and heads of science departments. This chapter reviews the Australasian literature that addresses the issue both directly and indirectly. The transformational practices of heads of science departments as well as influential science teachers within departments are identified in this chapter.

Reproducing successful rituals in bad times : exploring interactions of a new science teacher

Teaching is emotional work. This is especially the case in the first years of teaching when new teachers are particularly vulnerable. By understanding changes in teacher emotions in the early years of teaching we hope to identify strategies that might ultimately reduce teacher attrition. As part of a larger study of the transition of new teachers to the profession, this ethnographic case study explores how a new science teacher produced and reproduced positive emotional interaction rituals with her students in her first year of teaching. We show how dialogical interactions were positive and satisfying experiences for the teacher, and how they were reproduced successfully in different contexts. We also illustrate how both teacher and students used humor to create a structure for dialogical interactions. During these successful interactions the students used shared resources to satisfy their teacher that they were engaging in the relevant science content. The implications of what we have learned for the professional development of new teachers are discussed in relation to an expanded understanding of teacher emotions.

Expert science teacher's notion of scientific literacy

This paper will report on the way expert science teachers’ conceive of scientific literacy in their classrooms, the values related to scientific literacy they hold and how this conception and the underpinning values affect their teaching practice. Three perceived expert science teachers who teach both at senior and middle school levels and across the range of sub-disciplines (one senior biology, one senior chemistry and one senior physics) were interviewed about their understanding of scientific literacy and how this influenced their teaching practice. The three teachers were video recorded teaching a junior science class and a senior science class. The data were analysed to identify values that underpin their conceptions of science and science education. The analysis focussed on the matching of the verbalised conceptions and values with their practice of teaching science. This paper will report on these data.

Exploring emotional climate in preservice science teacher education

Classroom emotional climates are interrelated with students’ engagement with university courses. Despite growing interest in emotions and emotional climate research, little is known about the ways in which social interactions and different subject matter mediate emotional climates in preservice science teacher education classes. In this study we investigated the emotional climate and associated classroom interactions in a preservice science teacher education class. We were interested in the ways in which salient classroom interactions were related to the emotional climate during lessons centered on debates about science-based issues (e.g., nuclear energy alternatives). Participants used audience response technology to indicate their perceptions of the emotional climate. Analysis of conversation for salient video clips and analysis of non-verbal conduct (acoustic parameters, body movements, and facial expressions) supplemented emotional climate data. One key contribution that this study makes to preservice science teacher education is to identify the micro-processes of successful and unsuccessful class interactions that were associated with positive and neutral emotional climate. The structure of these interactions can inform the practice of other science educators who wish to produce positive emotional climates in their classes. The study also extends and explicates the construct of intensity of emotional climate.

Emotional climate and high quality learning experiences in science teacher education

The role of emotion during learning encounters in science teacher education is under-researched and under-theorized. In this case study we explore the emotional climates, that is, the collective states of emotional arousal, of a preservice secondary science education class to illuminate practice for producing and reproducing high quality learning experiences for preservice science teachers. Theories related to the sociology of emotions informed our analyses from data sources such as preservice teachers’ perceptions of the emotional climate of their class, emotional facial expressions, classroom conversations, and cogenerative dialogue. The major outcome from our analyses was that even though preservice teachers reported high positive emotional climate during the professor’s science demonstrations, they also valued the professor’s in the moment reflections on her teaching that were associated with low emotional climate ratings. We co-relate emotional climate data and preservice teachers’ comments during cogenerative dialogue to expand our understanding of high quality experiences and emotional climate in science teacher education. Our study also contributes refinements to research perspectives on emotional climate.

Emotional climate of a pre-service science teacher education class in Bhutan

This study explored pre-service secondary science teachers’ perceptions of classroom emotional climate in the context of the Bhutanese macro-social policy of Gross National Happiness. Drawing upon sociological perspectives of human emotions and using Interaction Ritual Theory this study investigated how pre-service science teachers may be supported in their professional development. It was a multi-method study involving video and audio recordings of teaching episodes supported by interviews and the researcher’s diary. Students also registered their perceptions of the emotional climate of their classroom at 3-minute intervals using audience response technology. In this way, emotional events were identified for video analysis. The findings of this study highlighted that the activities pre-service teachers engaged in matter to them. Positive emotional climate was identified in activities involving students’ presentations using video clips and models, coteaching, and interactive whole class discussions. Decreases in emotional climate were identified during formal lectures and when unprepared presenters led presentations. Emotions such as frustration and disappointment characterized classes with negative emotional climate. The enabling conditions to sustain a positive emotional climate are identified. Implications for sustaining macro-social policy about Gross National Happiness are considered in light of the climate that develops in science teacher education classes.

Primary science teacher confidence revisited: ten years on

Background

Harminics of evolution : the philosophy of individual life basedupon natural science, as taught by modern masters of the law

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Natural science.

Estas hojas de trabajo pueden utilizarse tanto en clase de inglés como de ciencias naturales. El material fue tomado directamente de la mayoría de los libros de texto del primer ciclo de la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) y permite a los estudiantes a participar activamente a pesar de que no sean especialmente buenos en la asignatura del inglés. Los textos proporcionan un contexto para la introducción de un vocabulario clave relativo a las demás áreas y refuerzan o revisan los conocimientos que han estudiado en otros temas. También incluye un glosario de los principales términos traducidos al español, catalán, euskera y gallego.

Essential Natural Science 1.

Forma parte de los materiales para el aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) que hace referencia al enfoque didáctico según el cual las materias, o alguna parte de ellas, se enseñan utilizando el inglés como lengua extranjera, con un doble fin:el aprendizaje del contenido de la materia y, simultáneamente, el de dicho idioma. Enseña los principales objetivos curriculares de Ciencias Naturales en el primer curso de la enseñanza secundaria obligatoria. Los contenidos están presentados con un lenguaje sencillo. Trata temas tales como:la atmósfera de la Tierra, átomos y elementos, el universo y los vertebrados. Las actividades incluyen la investigación y la práctica con experimentos para desarrollar el proceso de aprendizaje. Ofrece apoyo lingüístico a través de secciones especiales, tiene CD-ROM y glosario.

Essential Natural Science 2.

Forma parte de los materiales para el aprendizaje integrado de contenidos e idiomas (CLIL) que hace referencia al enfoque didáctico según el cual las materias, o alguna parte de ellas, se enseñan utilizando el inglés como lengua extranjera, con un doble fin:el aprendizaje del contenido de la materia y, simultáneamente, el de dicho idioma. Enseña los principales objetivos curriculares de Ciencias Naturales en el primer curso de la enseñanza secundaria obligatoria. Los contenidos están presentados con un lenguaje sencillo. Trata temas tales como:la atmósfera de la Tierra, átomos y elementos, el universo y los vertebrados. Las actividades incluyen la investigación y la práctica con experimentos para desarrollar el proceso de aprendizaje. Ofrece apoyo lingüístico a través de secciones especiales, tiene CD-ROM y glosario.

Edexcel 360 Science. Teacher pack : for GCSE biology, chemistry and physics.

Prepara a los estudiantes para la obtención del título General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) otorgado por el organismo Edexcel. Este recurso proporciona al profesor las respuestas a las preguntas del libro del alumno, apoyo adicional con cuadernos de trabajo y actividades prácticas para las clases. Al texto impreso le acompaña un CD-ROM con material didáctico en formato Word y PDF. Tiene como material de apoyo el libro del alumno.

GCSE in applied science. Teacher's file.

Este recurso para el profesor se apoya en el libro del alumno que sirve para preparar el General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) en ciencias. Proporciona al docente: tareas para cumplir con los criterios de evaluación, actividades prácticas, fichas para el desarrollo de destrezas y plantillas. Se completa con un doble CD-ROM.