Engaging Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Adopting Problem-Based Learning in the Context of Science Teaching and Learning

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Goodnough ◽  
Bruce Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Science Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Content

Interactions between the science teaching orientations and components of pedagogical content knowledge of in-service chemistry teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Betul Ekiz-Kiran ◽  
Yezdan Boz
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Science Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Teaching Orientations

The purpose of this study was to examine the interactions between in-service chemistry teachers’ science teaching orientations and other components of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Two experienced chemistry teachers participated in this study. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations, and field notes as the participants taught the mixtures unit. The results indicated that the participants held solid foundation purposes, in which students use science to be successful in their exams or next classes, along with everyday coping and correct explanations purposes. When participants’ correct explanations and solid foundation purposes interacted together with the same PCK component, solid foundation appeared to be the reason for their correct explanations purpose. The teaching strategies that teachers preferred to use interacted with their solid foundation and correct explanations purposes, and the participants altered curricula only if they believed it would lead students to achieve better scores on examinations. Participants’ beliefs about science teaching and learning indicated aspects of teacher-focused beliefs that prevent teachers from focusing on students’ prerequisite knowledge, learning difficulties, and misconceptions. These beliefs interacted with all the sub-components of knowledge of instructional strategies. In addition, there was an interaction between knowledge of curricula and beliefs about science teaching and learning for participants that were more knowledgeable about the curriculum. Moreover, what the teachers assessed was related to their correct explanations and everyday coping beliefs, while the way they assessed was related to their solid foundation beliefs. Last, none of the participants emphasised the aspects of the nature of science during their instruction.

scholarly journals From Knowing-About To Knowing-To: Development Of Engineering Pedagogical Content Knowledge By Elementary Teachers Through Perceived Learning And Implementing Difficulties

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Yan Sun ◽  
Johannes Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Phenomenological Research Method

The present study sought to reveal how elementary teachers develop their engineering pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) after leaving professional development programs to practice engineering teaching in real classroom settings. Participants of this study were the elementary teachers who received one-week training of engineering education provided by EfF (a P-12 Engineering teaching and learning institute in a Midwestern university). Data of this study were collected from these elementary teachers through face-to-face interviews and an online open-ended survey. Based on a phenomenological research method and a constructivist ELC (engineering instruction, learners, and contexts) framework developed by the researchers to investigate engineering PCK development, this study explored the elementary teachers’ lived engineering teaching experiences following the procedures of inductive qualitative data analysis. Findings yielded in this study revealed that the elementary teachers developed their knowledge about engineering teaching and learning situations through their engineering teaching practice. But such knowledge was the knowledge of knowing-about and it did not automatically transfer into the elementary teachers’ engineering PCK or knowing-to knowledge allowing them to act effectively and responsively to engineering teaching and learning situations at hand. In their engineering teaching practice, the elementary teachers engaged themselves in a dynamic and evolving trial-failure-success process. It was in this process that the elementary teachers made sense of new engineering teaching and learning situations and transformed their knowing-about into engineering PCK responsive to these situations. 

scholarly journals Employing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Skill Among Teachers in Preparing Online School Assessment for Home-Based Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sabri Bin Sahrir ◽  
Abdul Razif Zaini ◽  
Yaakob Hassan ◽  
Zulkefli Hamat ◽  
Taufik Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Online Assessment ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Learning Session ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Essential Components

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework is crucial for every educators and teachers when dealing with teaching and learning by using technology. There are three essential components of TPACK which have to be fully mastered in order to conduct any teaching and learning session via whatever technological means and platforms, especially in the current situation of COVID-19 pandemic which requires the teacher to adapt with suitable teaching and learning remote strategies including online assessment. This study is conducted to investigate the level of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) skill among Arabic school teachers in preparing online assessment for remote teaching and learning prior to a training workshop organized by the Malaysian branch of Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, ICESCO-KUIS and Islamic Education Unit, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. The main author has been conducting the TPACK training module among 56 Arabic school teachers in Johor, Malaysia on 5-6 October, 2020 from selected all districts, while only 40 of them responded to the survey after the workshop via Google Form. Moreover, all participants were responding concurrently to the open-ended survey during the workshop via Mentimeter.com. This research instruments were investigating the teachers’ knowledge about three essential components of TPACK, which include technology, content, and pedagogy as well their suggestions and feedbacks towards employing online assessment and effectiveness of conducted workshop. The findings are expected in contributing towards the understanding of the teacher’s level of knowledge in technology, pedagogy, and content among Arabic school teachers in Malaysia especially for online teaching and assessment. The study may also beneficial to other similar settings where the technology has not been effectively utilized by teachers in schools.

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
K 12

Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is a dynamic theoretical description of teachers' knowledge for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum and instruction with digital technologies. TPACK portrays the complex interaction among content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and technological knowledge for guiding all teachers (K-12 and higher education faculty) in the strategic thinking of when, where, and how to direct students' learning with technologies. Teacher educators' and educational researchers' acceptance of the TPACK construct mirrors the acceptance of its parent construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The importance of teachers' continued practice in integrating technologies is essential for extending and enhancing their TPACK. Connections with the knowledge-of-practice construct suggest calling TPACK TPACK-of-practice to more accurately describe the process of the knowledge development efforts for guiding inservice and preservice teachers in gaining, developing, and transforming their knowledge for teaching as new and more powerful technologies emerge for integration in education. Ultimately, the very nature of the TPACK construct describes a transformation of teachers' knowledge for teaching in the 21st century – a century reframed by robust and advanced technologies that have been integrated into the fabric of a more complex social, cultural, and educational environment.

“Virtual Inquiry” in the Science Classroom

2011 ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Eva Erdosne Toth
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Classroom Inquiry

The article examines prior research on students’ difficulties with inquiry learning and outlines research-based decisions for the consideration of software-based scaffolds for inquiry teaching and learning. The objective is to detail research findings in a way that assists teachers in their development of pedagogical content knowledge as relevant to the selection and use of technological tools for classroom inquiry in the high school biology or college introductory biology classrooms. Employing a worked-out-example in the popular domain of DNA science, the article illustrates the research-based integration of instructional design decisions coordinated with the features of selected software tools. The coordination of software-design with instructional design has the potential of significantly enhancing students’ learning while also supporting the development of teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge.

scholarly journals What Makes A Good Teacher? Needs and Necessities-A Survey of Recent Literature on Teacher’s Subject Matter Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirreza Karami
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Subject Matter Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Content

<p>This paper provides an overview of some entailed issues in efficacious teaching. First section focuses upon teacher’s subject matter knowledge and the way it affects teaching. The results of the review in this part suggest the efficacy of the teacher’s high subject matter knowledge on significant improvement in teaching and learning process. Second part reviews pedagogical knowledge and its importance on effective teaching. The significance of pedagogical knowledge to the teaching and learning process has been reaffirmed, too and the last part concentrates on pedagogical content knowledge. The findings of the past research discover its vital role in language teaching and learning. <span style="font-size: 10px;">This review serves to highlight paramount findings from the recent investigations that have implications for the development of teacher education, teaching and learning enhancement.</span></p>

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