Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
4-2-2009
Scholarship Domain(s)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Abstract
Many preservice elementary teacher candidates enter the required science content classroom with poor self-efficacy attitudes. We should take an approach that will both lead our students towards an understanding of the relevance of the content, as well as self-confidence in their ability to teach geoscience. In one of four required science content courses, Earth and Space Science for Elementary Teachers, we are achieving positive outcomes by redefining our students as our apprentices.
Recommended Citation
Skalac, Priscilla Field, "Relevance First: How to Engage Preservice Elementary (K-8) Teacher Candidates in a Required Geoscience Course" (2009). Faculty Scholarship – Geology. 5.
https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/geol_facp/5
Included in
Earth Sciences Commons, Elementary Education and Teaching Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons
Comments
Presented at the North-Central Section, 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009), of the Geological Society of America; Paper No. 15-1