Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Pre-Service Teachers' Maturing Perceptions of a TPACK- Framed Signature Pedagogy in Science Education


This article shows an action research study that aimed to determine the changes in pre-service teachers  perceptions of signature pedagogy that integrate the relation between technological, pedagogical, and science content knowledge.

the data were collected by journal entries at the beginning and the end of science method course. and the pre-service teacher respond to these question as following :

Question One : what is their understanding about the relation between technological, pedagogical, and science content knowledge ?

the results indicates that are three main themes and two minor theme of their respond as the following:

Theme One: technologies will be incorporated into science teaching by using the simulation ,video, social media in their classroom teaching.

Theme Two: societal commentary toward the digitally-savvy nature of modern day students . this theme focused on bent of student in current class.

Theme Three : confidence will increase in using the technology integrated in pedagogy and science content.

Theme Four: changing perspective of the type  technology is a tool.

Theme Five : the content knowledge is a key factor to select the technology to be integrated into science teaching.

Question Two: How will incorporate aspects of this relationship into their science teaching?

Theme One: change perspective from "I will use everyday"to "I will find the appropriate place for it"

Theme Two: a shifting perspective describing who is using the technology.


Monday, 22 December 2014

Learning in context: Technology Integration in Teacher Preparation Program Informed by Situated Learning Theory


The aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness of teacher preparation program based on situated learning on a pre-service teacher using technology during student experience. the data was collected by classroom observation,interviews,lesson plans, and written reflections. the results indicated that all participation used technology throughout teaching for reform based science instruction, also the used multimedia as image, video, and simulation to teach process, and to enhance student engagement in different ways that they learned through programs. the findings suggest that situated learning may by an effective structure to integrated the technology in reformed based science.

Key components of McLellan model include :
1. cognitive appernticeship and coaching
2. Opportunities for multiple practice
3. collaboration
4. reflection





Monday, 15 December 2014

Technological pedagogical content knowledge in teacher education: in search of a new curriculum



the aim of this study is to examine the ways that teacher education institution (TEI)  train pre-services teacher to integrate the information and communication technology in their practices. The three cases were examine the ways of use the technology pedagogy content knowledge(TPCK) in existing curriculum. the data were collected by semi structured interviews  and focus group.  The result indicated that three cases promote to integrate the ICT in curriculum and  the pre-service teacher develop TPCK in different ways for understanding the place of ICT in curriculum. These approaches are :
 1. TEL-1: from TK to TPCK
 2. TEL-2: from TK to TCK
3. TEL-3 : from TK tp TPK

                               



these approaches don't succeeded to develop TPCK for teachers.



Saturday, 13 December 2014

Particle Theory

What you intend the students to learn about this idea ?
  •  A matter is some bits that are called particles.
  • There are empty between particles
  • Particles are in constant motion.
  • Particles of different substances are different
  • There are different types of small bits of substances.
  • Atom particles don’t disappear , but their arrangements may be changed.
  • Models are used in science to help explain phenomena. All models have limitation.


Why is it important for student to know it?
  • It helps to explain the behavior of everyday things
  • It helps to understand the compress thing e.g. expansion and dissolving.

be continue...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

PCK_2


Chapter 2 (PCK)

This chapter was highlighted on these issues :
  •  PCK  is a knowledge that teacher develop over time through experience by using the particular ways to teach the content  and enhanced the student for understanding.

Monday, 13 October 2014

Teaching


Teaching Summary

The main issues that were discussed include :

  • Teaching is not telling,and listening is not learning, the teacher must teach for understanding  using the suitable pedagogy .So teacher need to design the effective effective environment and give the support and scaffolding for student.  

Saturday, 11 October 2014

Web 2.0

 Web 2.0 Technologies,New Media Literacies,and Science Education: Exploring the Potential to Transform  Summary Article

    This chapter explains that is the time to integrate web 2.0 technology in the learning. it shows two examples  to prove that.The first example is Mr. K , a math teacher , feels his students need more time to understand the concept ,so he integrated the blogging into classroom dialy, his students use the blog for answering ,reminding, etc.the student expressed that the blog  help him to understanding the concept. the other example is  Ms Frizzle, science teacher, she tried to implement student-centered, inquiry -based science instruction to empower her student, and the blogging community provide that.

PCK

Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Twenty-Five Years Later Summary

Maher Hashweh


This chapter  reviews the research about the construct of pedagogical content Knowledge (PCK) over 25 years. It displays the vagueness of PCK conceptualization  , its validity ,and it’s utlity. Shulman (1986) defined the PCK as subcategory of teacher content  knowledge beside curriculum knowledge and subject matter knowledge . Then, he defined PCK in 1987 as a category of teacher knowledge included content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, curriculum knowledge, knowledge of learners and it’s characteristics, educational context knowledge, knowledge of ends, purpose and values,and resource knowledge.

Friday, 10 October 2014

Self Reflection (PCK)

PCK is a new topic for me, I'm so pleasure in lecture that discuss this topic because I need to  understand  PCK deeply and foucs on sides that the teachers lost in this day.

Monday, 29 September 2014

Self Reflections


23/9/2014

Today I try to summary in English although I didn't write for many years ago. I decided to start write because I feel that I forget the English words and writing. I hope I do that well.

this article explores the web 2.0 technology in science education. the use of this technology of education is necessary for students and teachers because it's characteristics. this homwork is the best example for that . when I summary on blog and share with others I guess that the feedback will be effective in learning.

30/9/2014
  we learned about the PCK components and how this concept developed over 25 years. I like how Dr. Janazreh taught it by think-pair-share strategy, it was fun and useful in learning.

7/10/2014
  we identified  PCK as a knowledge that teacher develop over time through experience by using the particular ways to teach the content  and enhanced the student for understanding. 


14/10/2014
the most thing I like it in this lecture is the used strategy that depends on drawing vin forms to show our understanding of PCK. the vin forms and concept maps are used to discover the misconception , also it will be used in assessment.

other idea I think that should be in our practices in teaching and our life is reflection. reflection . reflection help us to know the the strenght points to enhance it and the problems to solve it.

21/10/2014

this article is very difficults because it has the details. I learned about the question I need to Know for planning my lessons that summarize as following:
1. the content knowledge.
2. the reasons and aims to learn these concept.
3. the teaching strategy ,analoge,modeling.
4. the difficulties and limitation that students have.
5. deep knowledge.

 The most thing that I lost is the deep knowledge for the concept.I decide to read more in science. also the road system that used is powerful to explain the concept and engage the student in learning.

28/10/2014

we took the midterm exam, I study very well for it, the questions were very interesting and I can solve it easly but I was tense so I forget and the knowledge was unorder.

11/11/2014

the best way to teach the teacher about PCK is a narrative way that depends on story and events from expert teachers than telling. one of the ways to discover  the misconceptions is listening to student and their thinking. the strategy POE (predict-observe-explain) help to that .

18/11/2014
   it is very interesting idea to teach chemical reactions  by mystery ,the student learning in context with fun. also the writing notes in the paper sides is useful,we use this way when read the articles.

9/12/2014

although I prepare the CoRe table for particle theory.but I can't solve the quiz because I didn't prepare all articles, so I think I 'm fail in this quiz. anyway, the particle theory is important article that explain PCK . we discussed how the student think about the particles and the particles in the material phases.

15/12/2014

Today we discussed the rest of particle theory articles. this article is simpler than chemical reaction. I think that because we became familiar with CoRe table and PCK .
every day I feel that I don't Know the deep content knowledge and forget it.

the second part of this lecture we discussed about the project. the idea is clear now . and the most difficult is chosen the subject.

23/12/2014

this lecture was postponed from the university , and we will take this lecture on Sunday to discuss the last articles in this course. we met the instructor in his office and we asked him about our project.

28/12/2014

in this lecture we applied the peer teaching using drive tools from google. I Knew it before and I used it in designing the trainig course with my partners Iyad. I like the way to discussed the main point in these articles by the limited time.

these article discussed TPACK in science education and teacher perception  about it. the summery was uploaded by these blog.