ED051
Telling Their Story:  Pre-Service Teachers Reflect on an Immersive Field Geology Course

Session ID#: 81482

Session Description:
Pre-service science teachers need to be put into situations where their existing conceptions of science, teaching, and learning are challenged in immersive, inquiry-based learning environments, before being asked to create similar spaces in their own classrooms.  One approach to meeting this objective is through the use of field-based geoscience courses designed for preservice teachers and education majors. The benefits that these experiences provide for preservice teachers’ self-efficacy, understanding of the nature of science, and science content knowledge are well documented.  This geoscience field course is tailored for preservice elementary students, secondary science students and in-service teachers. The impact the experience had on participating students’ ideas about science and teaching.  Qualitative methods including In-Vivo coding of transcripts from informal interviews with participants. Findings suggest that the field geology course challenged preservice teachers’ existing epistemologies of science, as they demonstrated an understanding of the empirical, creative, and tentative aspects of scientific knowledge.
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Primary Convener:  Ted A Neal, University of Iowa, Department of Teaching and Learning, Iowa City, IA, United States
Convener:  Nathan Quarderer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ted A Neal, University of Iowa, Department of Teaching and Learning, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
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Heather L Petcovic, Western Michigan University, Geological and Environmental Sciences and the Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Lauri E Davis, Western Michigan University, Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, United States, Steven B Bertman, Western Michigan Univ, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Todd D Ellis, Western Michigan University, Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Stephen E Kaczmarek, Western Michigan University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, Kevin Koch, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Linden Grove Middle School, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Valerie Long, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Loy Norrix High School, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Robert Ruhf, Western Michigan University, Science and Math Program Improvement, Kalamazoo, MI, United States and Paul Vellom, Western Michigan University, Teaching, Learning, and Educational Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
 
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Emily Van Delinder1, Jordan Burress1, Delaney Melnik2, Benjamin Miller3, Renae Mroczek4, Humayra Oishi5, Ryan Schira1, Jordyn Swinehart6, Lauri E Davis7, Kevin Koch8, Valerie Long9, Paul Vellom1 and Heather L Petcovic10, (1)Western Michigan University, Teaching, Learning, and Educational Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (2)Western Michigan University, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (3)Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Science, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (4)Western Michigan University, Chemistry, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (5)Western Michigan University, Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (6)Lake Michigan College, Science, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (7)Western Michigan University, Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, United States, (8)Kalamazoo Public Schools, Linden Grove Middle School, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (9)Kalamazoo Public Schools, Loy Norrix High School, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (10)Western Michigan University, Geological and Environmental Sciences and the Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
 
Statistical Analysis of Geo-electrical Parameters Using Multivariate Approach (589994)
Michael Oladunjoye, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and Margaret A Adeniran, University of Ibadan, Department of Geology, Ibadan, Nigeria
 
Telling Their Story: Pre-Service Teachers Reflect on an Immersive Field Geology Course (489745)
Ted A Neal, University of Iowa, Department of Teaching and Learning, Iowa City, IA, United States and Nathan Quarderer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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