Building Awareness Needs, Opportunities, and Best Practices in PreService Teacher Education

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Building Awareness Needs, Opportunities, and
Best Practices in Pre-Service Teacher Education

• Rick Pomeroy
• University of California, Davis

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Insert joke here
Student Teacher Conversation
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Education is a Black Box
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Input
Output
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Garbage in
Garbage out
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Diamonds
Carbon
Graphite
Coal
Charcoal
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Education
Prior Experiences
Informed populace
Instruction
Scientists Teachers
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Education
Prior Experiences
Trained Workforce
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Instruction
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Education
Learning
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Building Awareness Needs, Opportunities,and
Best Practicesin Pre-Service Teacher Education
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Guiding Questions

• Are there different approaches necessary for
  elementary and secondary science teachers?
• How can we mitigate science phobia among
  elementary teachers?
• What are the key areas of space science content
  knowledge for pre-service teachers?

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Needs

• 17-28 of Science Teachers lack full
  certification
• Greater numbers of elementary teachers lack
  science certification or understanding
• Anticipated shortfall of science teachers
• Programs to increase science teachers include
  loan forgiveness, bonuses, second and third
  career applicants

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Overview of Pre-Service Education

• Who is teaching science?
• What does it take to become a certified teacher?
• How long do science teachers stay in the
  profession?
• How can we address science phobia?
• How can the EPO community participate in
  Pre-Service TE?

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Opportunities K-12

• To promote engagement
• To increase career interest

• To promote engagement
• To increase career interest
• To take the opportunity to focus on learning

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Opportunities-Undergraduate

• To increase interest
• To promote career potential

• To increase interest
• To promote career potential
• Take the opportunity to improve teaching and
  learning

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Opportunities Pre-Service

• Promote activity based science instruction
• Improve teacher content knowledge

• Promote activity based science instruction
• Improve teacher content knowledge
• Collaborate to improve student learning through
  theoretically sound pedagogy

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Best Practices
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Best Practices

• What can we put into the box?
• Specifically, how can the EPO Community work with
  Pre-Service Education to make diamonds instead of
  charcoal?

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What can we do?

• Start with what students know
• Engage students (at all levels) in challenging,
  pedagogically sound instructional techniques.
• Promote authentic Inquiry
• Use formative assessment to guide instruction
• Carefully determine what students have learned

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• And why do you think they are very smart?
• They do well.
• What do you mean by they do well? Why do you
  think that?
• Why?
• You said that they participate. So if I
  participate would that make you think I am doing
  well?
• They have more confidence.
• It sounds like doing well is related to having
  some sort of interaction with you.

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How do we know???

• Which students are doing well?
• Ahh, Nico, Ryan, and ahhh Jason are doing well, I
  get a lot of participation from them
• So because they participate they are doing well?
• No, But for some reason those stand out, Alexis
  and Kelly are very smart too.

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How do we know???

• Which students are doing well?
• Ahh, Nico, Ryan, and ahhh Jason are doing well, I
  get a lot of participation from them
• So because they participate they are doing well?
• No, But for some reason those stand out, Alexis
  and Kelly are very smart too.

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• And why do you think they are very smart?
• They do well.
• What do you mean by they do well? Why do you
  think that?
• Why?
• You said that they participate. So if I
  participate would that make you think I am doing
  well?
• They have more confidence.
• It sounds like doing well is related to having
  some sort of interaction with you.

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Black Box Theory
Prior Experiences
Informed populace
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Instruction
Scientists Teachers