The Excitement and Wonder of Teaching Science: What Pre-service Teachers Learn from Facilitating Family Science Night Centers |
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| Authors: | Danielle B Harlow |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9490, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this study, pre-service teachers facilitated stations at a family science night as a context to learn to identify, assess,
and use children’s science ideas. Assessment is already difficult in K-12 classrooms. Assessing learning in informal learning
environments adds the complication that participation is largely voluntary. As such, controlling the learners’ participation
to systematically assess learning is counter to the intents of informal environments. The pre-service teachers in this study
experienced success at teaching science and developed understandings about children’s science ideas. Data included reflective
postings, class discussions, observations, artifacts, and photographs. The findings contribute to understanding the value
of multiple learning contexts in teacher preparation and lead to implications about leveraging informal science contexts for
educating teachers. |
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