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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. Program. Introduction My research (the big picture) The question for today
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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
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 toteachgeography Focus of thispresentation: The experimental module andhow teacher educatorsworkedwithitduring the fieldtest. How can we teach, in a limitednumber of hours, mainly non specialist student teacherstoteachgoodgeographylessons in primary school? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Question GTE Conference 2014 Winchester How capable are teacher educatorstoapplycharacteristics of goodgeography teaching, modeltheir way of workingandstimulate the development of metacognitive skills of theirstudents?
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (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) GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
7 characteristics of a good geography lesson (Haubrich, 1992; Van der Vaart, 2001; Van der Schee, 2000; Martin, 2006; Favier, 2012) GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Characteristics of the course Togetherwithstudentslessons are build up. Showing, sharing, doingyourself. Opportunitiesforown teaching stylesand couleur locale Activitiesthat help studentstobecomeconsciousabouttheirownlearningexperiences (Boekaerts & Simons, 1995; Hacker, Dunlosky, & Graesser, 2009) With a translation to the student teachers’ ownpratice and a connectionwiththeory (Lunenberg, Korthagen, & Swennen, 2007) GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
How did they work with the course? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
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Johan GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Were they capable to apply…. • characteristics of goodgeographyteaching? • model their way of working? • stimulate the development of metacognitive skills of theirstudents? • andtwoyears later? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Discussion/ Questions? • Is this approach also useful in an international context? • What is useful/ What should be changed? GTE Conference 2014 Winchester
Contact GTE Conference 2014 Winchester 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