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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science
Learning and Teaching, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 11 (Dec., 2003) Benny Hin Wai YUNG, Siu Ling WONG and Man Wai CHENG A curriculum innovation: Focusing on student teachers' developing conceptions of good science teaching
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What we are hoping for?
So far, our student teachers seem to be enjoying watching the videos and most of them find the videos an effective tool for them to reflect on their own conceptions of what good science teaching is. Comparing the amount of written comments that students submitted in their Tasks 1 and 2, it appears that the CD-ROM has proved to be an effective prompt for eliciting student teachers' entry conceptions of what good science teaching is, at least in quantitative terms. We will report on the outcomes and effectiveness of this curriculum innovation more comprehensively in a separate paper in due course. Though our project is still in progress, we believe that we have much to share even at this stage for the innovative model of teacher education with a focus on developing and tracking student teachers' conception of good teaching throughout the course of a teacher education program. We hope by way of this article, we can receive more inputs and suggestions from other teacher educators. This is in line with the action research nature of this project. We would also welcome collaboration with other teacher training institutes which are interested to adopt similar curriculum innovations.
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