Overview
reveals thinking patterns common to preservice elementary teachers;
identifies their behavioral characteristics while learning to teach science which are not commonly noted in current literature;
provides change strategies to accelerate preservice elementary teachers embracing the holistic, constructivist, inquiry/practice-based paradigm consistent with the standards set by the curriculum.
The chapters in this book immerse the reader in a sequence of episodes in this science methods course, and reveal the adventure of turning theory into practice while analyzing student-student/student-instructor interactions and their outcomes in an inquiry-driven, flipped classroom.
Strategies presented empower preservice elementary teachers to
implement national and state standards;
change science learning/teaching from “business as usual” to applying science and engineering practices in the classroom;
make cognitive and behavioral changes required to shift paradigms and eliminate science anxiety;
pass through stages of grief inherent in the loss of dominant mechanistic paradigm.
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