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| Abstract Title: | Assessing Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Future Elementary Teachers |
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| Abstract: | We reformed a course for future elementary teachers to infuse pedagogical content knowledge into the fabric of a physics course. The modified course is structured around an instructional model called the pedagogical learning bicycle (PLB) that intertwines the construction of content knowledge (CK) with pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) using metacognitive reflection as a bridge between learning content and pedagogy. To assess the impact of the course experiences on their PCK, the future teachers were asked to work in groups to create lesson plans that incorporated their understanding of elementary children's ideas of science and strategies to address these ideas. As a measure of PCK, we scored the lesson plans on the ways in which the students incorporated these ideas in their lesson. We describe the results of our study and discuss its implications for instruction. Supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation grant 1140855. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
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N. Sanjay Rebello Kansas State University Department of Physics 116 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, KS 66506 Phone: 785-532-1612 |
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