Full Description
Learning to Teach Science in the Secondary School is an indispensable guide to the process, practice, and reality of learning to teach science in a busy secondary school. Written by experienced teachers and expert academics, it explores core debates and topics in science education, providing practical and insightful advice with research and theory to support your development as a teacher.
This fully updated fifth edition focuses on the knowledge and skills you will need to develop your science teaching including key approaches to teaching physics, chemistry, and biology, lesson and curriculum planning, and assessment. There are also new chapters on:
Safety in science teaching
The science of learning for teaching science
Mathematics and learning science
Science for social justice
Inclusive and adaptive science teaching
Making use of research: practical guidance for science teachers
Written with university and school-based initial teacher education in mind and including learning objectives, lists of useful resources, and specially designed tasks in every chapter Learning to Teach Science in the Secondary School offers all student and early career teachers accessible and comprehensive guidance to support the journey of becoming an effective science teacher.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 BECOMING A SCIENCE TEACHER
2 USING REFLECTION, EVALUATION, AND METACOGNITION IN LEARNING TO TEACH SCIENCE
3 SAFETY IN SCIENCE TEACHING
4 THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
5 TEACHING BIOLOGY
6 TEACHING CHEMISTRY
7 TEACHING PHYSICS
8 PLANNING FOR PROGRESSION IN SCIENCE
9 THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
10 CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES TO LEARNING AND TEACHING SCIENCE
11 MODELS AND MODELLING IN SCIENCE TEACHING
12 USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT LEARNING AND TEACHING IN SCIENCE
13 PRACTICAL WORK
14 LANGUAGE AND LEARNING SCIENCE
15 MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM
16 FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE
17 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE
18 INCLUSIVE AND ADAPTIVE SCIENCE TEACHING
19 TEACHING SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
20 IS EDUCATION RESEARCH VALUABLE FOR TEACHERS OF SCIENCE?
21 PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE
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