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Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Posters and Presentations
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Perceptions Of Secondary And Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Faculty On Cisip Professional Development: A Teacher Learning Community Designing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Dale R. Baker, Senay Yaşar-Purzer, Sibel Uysal
Perceptions Of Secondary And Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Faculty On Cisip Professional Development: A Teacher Learning Community Designing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Dale R. Baker, Senay Yaşar-Purzer, Sibel Uysal
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Posters and Presentations
This study summarizes semi-structured focus group exit interviews with Communication in Science Inquiry Project (CISIP) participants, experienced secondary and post-secondary science, English, and ELL faculty. CISIP is an NSF-funded initiative designed to meet the need for highly qualified teachers and science education reform. The main purpose of the larger study was to understand teachers’ application, in teams, of the CISIP model during the three-week summer institute. The focus group interviews helped to triangulate researchers’ observations with the participants’ perceptions. Participants expressed favorable attitudes toward their extended CISIP experience, at least one year’s participation before the summer institute. All acknowledged the …