Enhancing the practicum experience for pre-service chemistry teachers through collaborative CoRe design with mentor teachers

dc.contributor.authorHume, Anne Christine
dc.contributor.authorBerry, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-12T03:40:56Z
dc.date.available2013-02-12T03:40:56Z
dc.date.copyright2013-01-22
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports findings from an ongoing study exploring how the Content Representation (CoRe) design can be used as a tool to help chemistry student teachers begin acquiring the professional knowledge required to become expert chemistry teachers. Phase 2 of the study, reported in this paper, investigated how collaboration with school-based mentors (associate teachers) on teaching practice (practicum) might impact on this process and student teachers' development of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The collaboration involved identifying and discussing pedagogical issues related to a practicum-teaching topic using a student teacher's draft CoRe as a starting point and ongoing focus for the professional dialogue. Practicum offered an opportunity for aspects of student teachers' PCK, as embodied in their draft CoRes, to be explored and expanded upon in classroom programmes with the support and input of associate teachers. The findings were influenced by different contextual factors; however, the student teachers found their CoRes to be very useful frameworks for engaging in focussed professional dialogue with their teaching mentors. They valued the expertise, currency of knowledge and mentoring of their associates and reported positively about the contribution this support made to their PCK development via the CoRe design process and the transformation of the CoRe into classroom teaching.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationHume, A., & Berry, A. (2013).Enhancing the practicum experience for pre-service chemistry teachers through collaborative CoRe design with mentor teachers. Research in Science Education. Article in press.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11165-012-9346-6en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn0157-244x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/7183
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer-Verlagen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfResearch in Science Educationen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofResearch in Science Education
dc.subjectContent representations (CoRes)en_NZ
dc.subjectPCKen_NZ
dc.subjectPracticumen_NZ
dc.subjectpre-service teachersen_NZ
dc.subjectschool-based mentor/associate teacheren_NZ
dc.titleEnhancing the practicum experience for pre-service chemistry teachers through collaborative CoRe design with mentor teachersen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page1en_NZ
pubs.declined2014-06-05T17:47:37.120+1200
pubs.elements-id38271
pubs.end-page30en_NZ
pubs.volume_onlineen_NZ
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