A Science Mentoring Program for Beginning Elementary School Teachers: Implementing Active Learning Strategies in Elementary Science Education - Softcover

Pickett, Linda Hess

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659127515 ISBN 13: 9783659127519

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This book reports a two-year examination of a science mentoring program for seven beginning elementary school teachers in terms of their students’ perceptions of classroom learning environment, achievement and attitudes, as well as these teachers’ attitudes. The What Is Happening In this Class? Questionnaire (Fraser, Fisher, & McRobbie, 1996), assessing student perceptions of seven dimensions of the classroom learning environment, was modified and administered to 573 students in Grades 3–5. This research represents one of the few learning environment studies that have investigated the efficacy of mentoring programs for beginning elementary school teachers. It is also one of the few studies of mentoring to adopt a learning environment framework. The study is particularly significant and distinctive because of its focus on the impact of professional development on the changes in teaching behaviors and student outcomes in the mentored teachers’ classrooms.

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About the Author

Linda Hess Pickett is an associate professor in the department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Richard W. Riley College of Education at Winthrop University. Dr. Pickett has devoted her educational career to inspiring students, teacher candidates and practicing teachers to love science.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659127515
• ISBN 13: 9783659127519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296