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"Bay of New York From Hoboken"
John Poppel Sculps- 1850 |
The following is a presentation that was given on November 21, 2014. The presentation centered on recent research taking place with a graduate student.
TITLE: What we have been thinking about for the past year: Terrariums and Pre-Service Teacher Knowledge
Michele Mann and Anthony Petrosino will be talking about 2 ongoing research projects they have been working on for the past few months. The first is an examination of pre-service teachers use of physical, symbolic, and computational models. In the case of their study, 2-tier terrariums. What are the constraints, affordances, and points of leverage for elementary science pre-service teachers and their students. The second project is an assessment of science content knowledge and process skills of pre-service elementary science teachers (non content majors), pre-service secondary teachers (content majors), and college students in general. Issues of teacher training, general science knowledge and preliminary results will be discussed.
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