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Studying Teacher Education
A journal of self-study of teacher education practices
Volume 13, 2017 - Issue 3
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Learning from Rookie Mistakes: Critical Incidents in Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Science to Teachers

Aprendiendo de los errores de principiante: incidentes críticos en el desarrollo de conocimiento pedagógico del contenido para enseñar ciencias a profesores

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Pages 275-293 | Received 05 Oct 2016, Accepted 17 Apr 2017, Published online: 24 Aug 2017
 

Abstract

While there is a growing literature focused on doctoral preparation for teaching about science teaching, rarely have recommendations extended to preparation for teaching science content to teachers. We three doctoral students employ self-study as a research methodology to investigate our developing pedagogical content knowledge for teaching science to teachers during a mentored internship in an elementary teacher professional development program. With our mentor, we examine critical incidents in the experience that supported new insights about teaching teachers and about ways in which beginning teacher educators need to develop their existing pedagogical content knowledge for teaching science to students in order to teach science effectively to teachers. We emphasize ways in which doctoral internships can support this learning and how our respective cultures shaped our interactions with and perceptions of teachers as learners.

Mientras que hay cada vez más literatura que se enfoca en la preparación doctoral para enseñar acerca de la enseñanza de las ciencias, rara vez se encuentran recomendaciones para enseñar contenidos de ciencia a profesores. En nuestro grupo de tres estudiantes doctorales utilizamos el self-study como metodología de investigación para estudiar nuestro creciente conocimiento pedagógico del contenido para enseñar ciencias a un grupo de profesores durante una pasantía de mentorías en un programa de perfeccionamiento para docentes de primaria. Con nuestro mentor, examinamos incidentes críticos en la experiencia que dieron lugar a nuevas comprensiones respecto a enseñar a profesores y acerca de modos en que los formadores principiantes de docentes necesitan desarrollar su conocimiento pedagógico del contenido para enseñar ciencias a estudiantes, para así poder enseñar ciencias de manera efectiva a otros profesores. Enfatizamos los modos en que las pasantías doctorales pueden ayudar a este tipo de aprendizaje y cómo nuestras respectivas culturas moldearon nuestras percepciones e interacciones con los docentes en tanto estudiantes.

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Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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