Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom

Newton, D.P.; Newton, L.D.

doi:10.1080/02619760220128914

All Outputs (5)

What primary school student-teachers and head teachers think matters when choosing and judging a teacher, (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2001). What primary school student-teachers and head teachers think matters when choosing and judging a teacher,. Research in Education, 66, 54-64

Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2001). Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 182-88

Discusses what counts as understanding in history at the elementary school (British primary school) level and describes some strategies that have been shown by research to be effective in supporting the construction of historical understanding. Ident... Read More about Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom.

Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2001). Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 143-53

Discusses what counts as understanding in primary school science (elementary school science) in the context of the United Kingdom's National Curriculum Order for Science. Considers the problems elementary school teachers face in pressing for understa... Read More about Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science.

Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D. P., & Newton, L. D. (2001). Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters. Research in Education, 66(November), 54-64

Head teachers and student teachers have conceptions of what matters when selecting and judging the effectiveness of a new teacher. This study reports the results of surveys of sixty-six primary school head teachers' and eighty-one postgraduate studen... Read More about Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters.

Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2001). Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom. European Journal of Teacher Education, 24(3), 369-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619760220128914

Investigated whether a background in science would make a difference in the oral interactions of elementary teachers in their science lessons. Observations of 50 British elementary science teachers and comparison of the oral discourse of teachers wit... Read More about Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom.