PRE-SERVICE CHEMISTRY TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL VISION DEVELOPMENT: THE EFFECT OF LESSON-OBSERVATION PRACTICE

Autor: Linda Honskusová, Karel Vojíř, Martin Rusek
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Baltic Science Education. 21:52-68
ISSN: 2538-7138
1648-3898
DOI: 10.33225/jbse/22.21.52
Popis: Ability to adequately analyze educational situations is essential not only for (pre-service) teachers’ occupational decisions, but also for their own professional development. This study represents an evaluation of the observation practice aimed at pre-service chemistry teachers’ (N = 12) professional vision development. They attended chemistry classes in schools, discussed them in a group and independently wrote their reflections. The effect on the professional vision was evaluated using a self-efficacy questionnaire, lesson reflections analyses and semi-structured interviews. The results showed that pre-service teachers significantly overestimated their ability to reflect on lessons, struggled with lesson analyses, failed to describe and analyze chemistry-specific content in contrast with their significant improvement in describing student-teacher interaction and teacher’s activity – all with medium to large effect. Although observation practice deepened their ability to notice, pre-service teachers did not change attention to individual lesson’s aspects. Lesson observation therefore seems to be a suitable means of professional vision development from the richness of observed phenomena’s point of view, as well as students’ self-efficacy improvement, however more research in several aspects is needed to further inform (pre-service) teacher training practice. Key words: ability to notice, learning situations reflection, pre-service chemistry teacher, professional vision, teacher self-efficacy
Databáze: OpenAIRE