Science Teaching

Science Teaching 

When we consider about effective Science teaching it mainly requires three kinds of knowledge Social and Pedagogical Knowledge, Knowledge of Science and Knowledge of Students. (Grossman, Wilson and Shulman, 1989).

By describing this further, the authors say that, first effective science teaching requires Social and pedagogical knowledge that enables a teacher to create and maintain a classroom social environment that encourages sense making behavior on the part of the students as well as appropriate academic tasks and teaching strategies. Secondly, a science teacher needs knowledge of science that they can use to transform complex, technical scientific knowledge into forms accessible to students. In order to do this the teacher must understand how scientific ideas are connected and how they can be used to understand and control the world around us. Third, science teachers need a knowledge of students that includes an understanding of how students’ specific personal knowledge and socially and culturally influenced way of thinking affect their cognitive and affective responses to science. Lee S. Shilman (1986) states that, among those categories Social and Pedagogical Knowledge is of special interest because it identifies distinctive body of knowledge for teaching. Teachers get this knowledge form the proper Science teacher education.