Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into nine primary school teachers’ concerns and instructional needs in biology and mathematics, grades 1 to 6. By using Content Representation, combined with Learning Study in an action research project, teachers were encouraged to reflect on their concep...
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| description | The aim of this paper is to provide insights into nine primary school teachers’ concerns and instructional needs in biology and mathematics, grades 1 to 6. By using Content Representation, combined with Learning Study in an action research project, teachers were encouraged to reflect on their conceptions, processes of instructing and pupil learning. From concerns articulated by teachers three instructional needs emerged: (i) to make subject progression, especially in biology, and pupil learning more visible, (ii) to develop mathematics teaching in order to change pupils’ views of the subject, and (iii) to develop teachers’ subject matter knowledge and teaching in an ongoing collaborative process. The paper argues that in order to stimulate teacher professional development it is important to make teacher concerns and thereby needs explicit. They help teachers to identify and reflect on relations between teacher subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and pupil learning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3761a18075940129445434ce7c8cd2c2022-12-21T23:02:06ZdanUniversity of OsloNordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education1504-45561894-12572015-11-0111310.5617/nordina.964Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teachingEva Kellner0Iiris AttorpsFaculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle Sweden.The aim of this paper is to provide insights into nine primary school teachers’ concerns and instructional needs in biology and mathematics, grades 1 to 6. By using Content Representation, combined with Learning Study in an action research project, teachers were encouraged to reflect on their conceptions, processes of instructing and pupil learning. From concerns articulated by teachers three instructional needs emerged: (i) to make subject progression, especially in biology, and pupil learning more visible, (ii) to develop mathematics teaching in order to change pupils’ views of the subject, and (iii) to develop teachers’ subject matter knowledge and teaching in an ongoing collaborative process. The paper argues that in order to stimulate teacher professional development it is important to make teacher concerns and thereby needs explicit. They help teachers to identify and reflect on relations between teacher subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and pupil learning.https://journals.uio.no/nordina/article/view/964biology and mathematicsteacher knowledge and professional learning communitiesprimary schoolcontent representation and Learning study |
| spellingShingle | Eva Kellner Iiris Attorps Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education biology and mathematics teacher knowledge and professional learning communities primary school content representation and Learning study |
| title | Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching |
| title_full | Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching |
| title_short | Primary school teachers’ concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching |
| title_sort | primary school teachers concerns and needs in biology and mathematics teaching |
| topic | biology and mathematics teacher knowledge and professional learning communities primary school content representation and Learning study |
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