MasterClass in Science Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning - Hardcover

Keith S. Taber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474289428 ISBN 13: 9781474289429

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

MasterClass in Science Education shows how the science teacher can become a master teacher by developing and adopting the habits and mind-set of a teacher-as-scientist. Part I introduces the three pillars of this approach: subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and classroom research. Keith Taber explores the dynamic nature of subject knowledge for science teachers; it is vast and constantly evolving as it is challenged, updated and developed. He also shows that pedagogical knowledge needs to be enacted in the classroom, offering a wide-range of research-informed perspectives that offer insights into facilitating student learning. He shows how recommendations from published research studies can be used as components of a toolkit for improving teaching and learning. He also provides the tools to support teachers to collect and analyse data from their own classrooms. Part II explores a range of issues facing science teachers, including: natural selection, submicroscopic particle models and circuits. Keith also discusses strategies for teaching nature of scientific knowledge and making practical work effective and challenging for gifted young scientists.

About this title

About the Author

Keith S. Taber is Professor of Science Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474289428
• ISBN 13: 9781474289429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224