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A partnership based approach to professional learning: pre-service and in-service teachers working together to teach primary science

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posted on 2023-05-17, 01:27 authored by John KennyJohn Kenny
This paper reports on a partnership based approach for preparing pre-service primary teachers to teach science. It involved forming three-way or "triadic" partnerships, consisting of a final year pre-service primary teacher and an in-service colleague, to teach science in the colleague teacher’s classroom, with the support of a teacher-educator. The pre-service teachers had to collaboratively plan, develop and deliver a sequence of science lessons and take major responsibility for teaching a 90 minute science lesson, at least once a week over a six week period. The data was collected during 2007 and 2008. The pre-service teachers kept a reflective journal of their experiences using a process devised to guide and support them. The results indicated improved attitudes to and confidence in teaching science for the pre-service teachers and their in-service colleagues. The results indicate triadic partnership approach may be an effective way to support teacher professional learning in science.

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Volume

34

Issue

6

Pagination

1-22

ISSN

0313-5373

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Social Science Press

Place of publication

Australia

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Copyright © 2006 ECU

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Teacher and instructor development

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