Share Paper: Preservice Science Teachers’ TPACK Development In a Post-Baccalaureate Master of Arts in Teaching Program

  1. Aaron Kessler, Concordia University Chicago, United States
Wednesday, March 23 3:20-3:40 PM Scarbrough 4

Abstract: Technological pedagogical content knowledge or TPACK (Koehler & Mishra, 2009) gives a framework for thinking about the knowledge necessary for teachers to think about, plan, and engage in instruction that utilizes technology. Recently a call has been made for the research community to think about how TPACK is situated and developed in specific contexts (Rosenberg & Koehler, 2015). This work attempts to address that call by looking at how a set of preservice science teachers’ TPACK developed in a pedagogy course specifically designed to include interventions centered around using technology in support of engaging science instruction. To assess this development, ...