Supporting the Use of Scientific Language: Teachers' Use of Content-Foregrounded Educative Features

Autor/inn/en	Kademian, Sylvie M.; Arias, Anna Maria; Davis, Elizabeth A.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan
Titel	Supporting the Use of Scientific Language: Teachers' Use of Content-Foregrounded Educative Features
Quelle	In: Journal of Science Teacher Education, 28 (2017) 2, S.146-168 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kademian, Sylvie M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1046-560X
DOI	10.1080/1046560X.2016.1277596
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Teachers; Science Teachers; Elementary School Science; Instructional Materials; Elementary School Students; Science Instruction; Scientific Literacy; Teaching Methods; Grade 4; Scientific Principles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Science; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to determine how elementary teachers used scientific language during a whole-class discussion to describe 3 biological phenomena (interactions, dependent relationships, and interdependent relationships) with and without educative curricula. Findings revealed that the ways in which the 6 teachers enacted the discussion reflected and varied from the original written curriculum materials. In addition, teachers provided with curriculum materials that contained educative features foregrounding scientific content tended to use scientific language to describe the 3 phenomena more frequently and more accurately than teachers given curriculum materials without the educative features. Teacher interviews provided insight into teachers' perceived struggles enacting the whole-class discussion and teachers' perceived importance of the use of scientific language. These findings have implications for curriculum developers, teacher educators, and teachers. The study highlights the need to support teachers' use of scientific language and ability to talk science with elementary students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01