Leveraging Science Teacher Identity for the Recruitment of Future Science Teachers
Leveraging Science Teacher Identity for the Recruitment of Future Science Teachers

Author: Marisa Sierchio Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Science teacher shortages are reaching critical capacity across the United States and New Jersey. Emerging teacher identity research highlights the impacts that subject matter plays in the development and retention of today's teachers. Strong personal and professional connections to the content area of science directly impact a person's decision to teach in a science content area. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways that identity serves to influence a person's decision to teach in a science and to determine if the tenets of science teacher identity can be used to identify the most effective recruitment strategies. The study was quantitative in nature and was conducted through survey research. The survey was distributed to secondary science teachers in 5 suburban, middle to upper middle-class school districts in New Jersey, and undergraduate pre-service science teachers in one private suburban New Jersey university. The survey instrument was adapted with permission from the original survey based on Chi's 2009 study. Ninety-three participants volunteered to complete the survey. Research data revealed that science teacher identity becomes stronger with increasing years of experience, but no significant differences were found in the responses of males versus females. This data supports and encourages recruitment strategies that are centered around early and frequent science content immersion and fostering a sense of belonging to a community of science professionals. (ProQuest abstract).

Studying Science Teacher Identity
Studying Science Teacher Identity

Author: Lucy Avraamidou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9463005285

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The overarching goal of this book volume is to illuminate how research on science teacher identity has deepened and complicated our understanding of the role of identity in examining teacher learning and development. The collective chapters, both theoretical and empirical, present an array of conceptual underpinnings that have been used to frame science teacher identity, document the various methodological approaches that researchers have implemented in order to study science teacher identity within various contexts, and offer empirical evidence about science teacher identity development. The findings of the studies presented in this volume support the argument that teacher identity is a dynamic, multidimensional and comprehensive construct, which provides a powerful lens for studying science teacher learning and development for various reasons. First, it pushes our boundaries by extending our definitions of science teacher learning and development as it proposes new ways of conceptualizing the processes of becoming a science teacher. Second, it emphasizes the role of the context on science teacher learning and development and pays attention to the experiences that teachers have as members of various communities. Third, it allows us to examine the impact of various sub-identities, personal histories, emotions, and social markers, such as ethnicity, race, and class, on science teachers’ identity development. The book aims at making a unique and deeply critical contribution to notions around science teacher identity by proposing fresh theoretical perspectives, providing empirical evidence about identity development, offering a set of implications for science teacher preparation, and recommending directions for future research.

Forming Science Teacher Identity
Forming Science Teacher Identity

Author: Kristen Victoria Larson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Through the interpretation of data sources including interviews, observation notes, portfolio assessments, and inquiry groups, I present the experiences, identities, and values in setting goals for assessments that four early-career science teachers shared. Across these data sources, I draw attention to findings around a) the language and positioning that the participants shared as they grew into their roles as science teachers; b) the ways that participant identities informed their goals for assessments and student learning, and c) the ways that teacher-designed formative assessments represented the identities of four early-career middle and secondary school teachers. I conclude with implications for teacher education strategies for building responsive and reflective assessment practices, for teacher education support for science teacher identity construction, and future research around identity in teacher education portfolio assessments.

First-year Science Teacher Identities as Navigations Through the Figured Worlds of Schools
First-year Science Teacher Identities as Navigations Through the Figured Worlds of Schools

Author: Kraig A. Wray

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9781085590662

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A challenge for teacher education programs is preparing novice teachers to utilize progressive teaching practices for the purpose of leveraging student learning. When novice teachers are placed in challenging contexts, progressive practices are often under-utilized and replaced with traditional methods that are more teacher-centered. How best to prepare teachers for various teaching contexts requires an appreciation of factors that influence the professional identity and shape the actions of teachers. For this study, I took a sociocultural lens, which placed teachers as individuals who act within larger systems of power. I used figured worlds as a lens through which to investigate the factors that influence teacher agency as it mediates and is mediated by novice teacher's professional identity. This case study investigated three first-year science teachers in high-needs schools. Through the narratives told by these teachers about the culture and systems of power of their schools, I sought to gain insight into their teaching practices and agentic actions. I also sought to investigate these actions as they relate to the professional identities they develop within their figured worlds.

Enhancing Professional Knowledge of Pre-Service Science Teacher Education by Self-Study Research
Enhancing Professional Knowledge of Pre-Service Science Teacher Education by Self-Study Research

Author: Gayle A. Buck

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 3319324470

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Self-study research is making an impact on the field of science education. University researchers employ these methods to improve their instruction, develop as instructors, and ultimately, impact their students’ learning. This volume provides an introduction to self-study research in science education, followed by manuscripts of self-studies undertaken by university faculty and those becoming university faculty members in science teacher education. Chapter authors range from those new to the field to established researchers, highlighting the value of self-study research in science teacher education for every career rank. The fifteen self-studies provided in this book support and extend this contemporary work in science teacher education. They, and the subsequent reflections on professional knowledge, are organized into four sections: content courses for preservice teachers, elementary methods courses, secondary methods courses, and preparation of future teacher educators. Respondents from various locations around the globe share their reflections on these sections. A culminating reflection of the findings of these studies is provided at the end of the book that provides an overview of what we have learned from these chapters, as well as a reflection on the role of self-study research in the future of science teacher education.

Studying Science Teacher Identity
Studying Science Teacher Identity

Author: Lucy Avraamidou

Publisher: SensePublishers

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9789463003797

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The overarching goal of this book volume is to illuminate how research on science teacher identity has deepened and complicated our understanding of the role of identity in examining teacher learning and development. The collective chapters, both theoretical and empirical, present an array of conceptual underpinnings that have been used to frame science teacher identity, document the various methodological approaches that researchers have implemented in order to study science teacher identity within various contexts, and offer empirical evidence about science teacher identity development. The findings of the studies presented in this volume support the argument that teacher identity is a dynamic, multidimensional and comprehensive construct, which provides a powerful lens for studying science teacher learning and development for various reasons. First, it pushes our boundaries by extending our definitions of science teacher learning and development as it proposes new ways of conceptualizing the processes of becoming a science teacher. Second, it emphasizes the role of the context on science teacher learning and development and pays attention to the experiences that teachers have as members of various communities. Third, it allows us to examine the impact of various sub-identities, personal histories, emotions, and social markers, such as ethnicity, race, and class, on science teachers’ identity development. The book aims at making a unique and deeply critical contribution to notions around science teacher identity by proposing fresh theoretical perspectives, providing empirical evidence about identity development, offering a set of implications for science teacher preparation, and recommending directions for future research.

Science Teacher Identity and Justice Education
Science Teacher Identity and Justice Education

Author: Alison Sammel

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9783659310027

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How do five new teachers understand and enact counter-hegemonic science pedagogies in their own classes? This question arose when I taught critical science education, a counter-hegemonic pedagogy, to pre-service science teachers. In this pedagogy I encouraged the exploration of social and environmental injustices and how they function to reproduce dominant economic agendas. The analytic lens of critical education showed that these teachers were strongly influenced by the dominant science reform agenda. Regardless of the science curriculum, or the strong social and environmental beliefs some of these teachers held, they did not perceive the teaching of the social and environmental justice issues to be 'critical' or 'their job.' They demonstrated a belief that it was 'critical' to teach well-defined, "hard science" facts. Student success, hence teacher success, involved playing the academic game well and gaining long-term financial security. Re/viewing the data stories through the additional analytic lens of feminist poststructuralism, I saw how dominant discourse constructs the identity of teachers, their desires, and enforces self-discipline.

Defining an Identity
Defining an Identity

Author: P.J. Fensham

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9401001758

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Research in science education is now an international activity. This book asks for the first time, Does this research activity have an identity? -It uses the significant studies of more than 75 researchers in 15 countries to see to what extent they provide evidence for an identity as a distinctive field of research. -It considers trends in the research over time, and looks particularly at what progression in the research entails. -It provides insight into how researchers influence each other and how involvement in research affects the being of the researcher as a person. -It addresses the relation between research and practice in a manner that sees teaching and learning in the science classroom as interdependent with national policies and curriculum traditions about science. It gives graduate students and other early researchers an unusual overview of their research area as a whole. Established researchers will be interested in, and challenged by, the identity the author ascribes to the research and by the plea he makes for the science content itself to be seen as problematic.

Scientific Teaching
Scientific Teaching

Author: Jo Handelsman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781429201889

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Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.