Critical Colleagueship Among Secondary Science Teachers in a Video Club

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Abstract

This study explores science teachers' critical colleagueship in the context of a semester-long video club. Participants engaged in the collaborative examination of artifacts of teaching to develop a more student-centered professional vision of teaching. Participants demonstrated attention to student thinking about disciplinary core ideas to problematize teaching and learning in science throughout the semester-long PD. Participants also utilized a mixture of evidence from artifacts in combination with professional anecdotes to make sense of the student reasoning in the artifacts. Participants built on each other’s ideas as well as challenged each other’s interpretations of student thinking as well as conceptions of core disciplinary ideas. The design features of the PD series and their possible influence on the group’s participation are discussed.

Authors

• Tara Barnhart, University of California - Irvine

• Elizabeth A. van Es, University of California - Irvine