Primary Science Audit and Test

A self audit tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

List of contents

PART ONE: SCIENCE BACKGROUND
PART TWO: INTEREST IN SCIENCE
PART THREE: PERCEIVED COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE IN SCIENCE
Competence
Confidence
PART FOUR: SCIENCE TEST
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Making Sense of Your Test Results
PART FIVE: ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS INCLUDING CHILDREN'S COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
PART SIX: TARGETS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
PART SEVEN: REVISION AND FURTHER READING

About the author

Jenny Byrne is Programme Director of the Primary PGCE and a science tutor in the Schook of Education, University of Southampton.John Sharp is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute (LHERI) at the University of Lincoln.

Summary

A self audit tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Byrne, Jenny Christodoulou Byrne, Byrne Jenny, Andri Christodoulou, Christodoulou Andri, John Sharp
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2014
• EAN: 9781446282731
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-8273-1
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Achieving QTS Series; Achieving QTS; Achieving QTS Series; Achieving QTS
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Sciences, General Science, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General