What Is Necessary To Include in a Science Methods Course for Teachers on Emergency Permits? The Role of the Feedback Portfolio

Hedy Moscovici

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers of Science 2001 (June 2001)

This study examines a feedback portfolio developed by student teachers in their secondary science methods courses. The portfolio preparation requires students to reflect and select their best five learning experiences during the course and provide a ...

Teaching and learning cycles in a constructivist approach to instruction

Florence Mihaela Singer; Hedy Moscovici

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 24, No. 6 (August 2008) pp. 1613–1634

This study attempts to analyze and synthesize the knowledge collected in the area of conceptual models used in teaching and learning during inquiry-based projects, and to propose a new frame for organizing the classroom interactions within a...

Language: English

A Collaborative Model for Training University Faculty to Infuse Technology into their Curriculum

Nada Mach; Diane Hembacher; Hedy Moscovici

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 717–724

The authors, faculty members in a diverse urban state university, successfully used a training-of-trainers model to motivate and train its faculty to infuse technology into their methods classes, with the support of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers...

Topics: Training, Educational Technology, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences

Online Peer Review: Learning Science as It's Practiced

Nancy M. Trautmann; William S. Carlsen; Charles J. Eick; Francis E. Gardner; Lisa Kenyon; Hedy Moscovici; John C. Moore; Mark Thompson; Sandra West

Journal of College Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 7 (2003) pp. 443–47

Describes a cooperative project that integrates the internet into the peer-review process to enhance student understanding of the nature of science through engagement in socially authentic scientific research and the double-blinded peer review...