Student teachers and teacher educators at work with
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Student teachers and teacher educators at work with a new approach for teaching geography in primary teacher education Marian Blankman GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
2 Program ¡Introduction ¡My research (the big picture) ¡The question for today ¡The (experimental) course: How to teach geography ¡Discussion GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
My research: How to teach geography 3 Focus of this presentation: The experimental module and how teacher educators worked with it during the fieldtest. How can we teach, in a limited number of hours, mainly non specialist student teachers to teach good geography lessons in primary school? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
4 Question How capable are teacher educators to apply characteristics of good geography teaching, model their way of working and stimulate the development of metacognitive skills of their students? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Pedagogical Content Knowledge GTE Conference 2014 Winchester 5 (PCK: Shulman L. , 1986; 1987; Turner Bisset. , 1999; Martin , 2005 Geogr: Haubrich, 1992; Van der Vaart, 2001; Van der Schee, 2000; Martin, 2006; Favier, 2012)
6 7 characteristics of a good geography lesson Motivation al start Why is it there? Conclusion/ transfer Characteristics Where is it? (Haubrich, 1992; Van der Vaart, 2001; Van der Schee, 2000; Martin, 2006; Favier, 2012) GTE Conference 2014 Winchester of a good geography lesson What are the concequences, advantages and disadvantages? How does it change? Zooming provides a different picture?
7 Characteristics of the course 5 meetings of 90 minutes 7 characteristi cs of a good geography lesson Geography course Explicit modelling GTE Conference 2014 Winchester Together with students lessons are build up. Showing, sharing, doing yourself. Opportunities for own teaching styles and couleur locale Metacognition and transfer Activities that help students to become conscious about their own learning experiences (Boekaerts & Simons, 1995; Hacker, Dunlosky, & Graesser, 2009) With a translation to the student teachers’ own pratice and a connection with theory (Lunenberg, Korthagen, & Swennen, 2007)
Learning to teach geography: 5 meetings 4. WHAT/HOW map and atlas 5. WHAT/HOW Evaluation How to teach geography 1. WHAT/ showing 3. WHAT/HOW Geography textbook 2. WHAT Together/ yourself
9 How did they work with the course? The teacher educators GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
10 Rianne GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
11 Erik GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
12 Johan GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
13 Were they capable to apply…. ¡characteristics of good geography teaching? ¡model their way of working? ¡stimulate the development of metacognitive skills of their students? ¡and two years later? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
14 Discussion/ Questions? ¡Is this approach also useful in an international context? ¡What is useful/ What should be changed? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
15 Contact Marian Blankman Inholland University of Applied Sciences School of Education PO Box 558 2003 RN Haarlem The Netherlands marian. blankman@inholland. nl +31(0)615279734 GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
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