C. Course work to learn how to teach physics
As mentioned above, in the traditional approach to
teacher preparation, future teachers learn the content of the
disciplines they will teach in the arts and science depart-
ments and the teaching methods in the schools of education.
Studies of teacher preparation programs in schools of educa-
tion find that most of them have one course that prepares
future teachers to teach their subject. In science education,
teachers of all sciences
共biology, physics, chemistry, and
earth science
兲 enroll in the same course, i.e., “Materials and
Methods in Secondary Science,” which cannot prepare them
for the instruction of all the complicated topics of their dis-
cipline. In their review of methods courses, Clift and Brady
reported that few teacher preparation programs were “prepar-
ing to teach distinctly different areas of science, such as
physics or biology”
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content-specific methods courses where students learn how
to teach the subject of their specialization are necessary to
prepare high quality teachers. Moreover, the undergraduate
coursework in their respective science disciplines leaves fu-
ture teachers with gaps in their content understanding
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does not seem to prepare future teachers to teach in ways that
follow the recommendations of the National Science Educa-
tion Standards. Many future teachers do not experience the
reformed, interactive-engagement pedagogy while learning
the content. Thus, there is a need for preservice teachers to
reconceptualize the content when they enter teacher prepara-
tion programs, not only to become familiar with the aspects
of PCK such as outlined above but also to experience how
science learning happens in reformed environments.
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