In-Service Education of Science Teachers: Virtual Simulators as a Resource for Experimental Work

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.19.2.253691
Keywords: In-service education of science teachers, Experimental work, Virtual simulators.

Abstract

This article presents a 50 hour course for in-service science teachers who wish to conduct experimental work with their students using the potentialities of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This course was designed taking into consideration that several studies in Portugal have shown that in-service science teachers still have lots of difficulties in setting experimental work in a coherent pedagogical framework and also that teachers don’t know how to use ICT resources under a socio-constructivist learning approach.  The course aims to help teachers on how to choose virtual simulators that are adequate to certain learning objectives and how to create learner-centred activities using these resources under the main pedagogical guidelines of experimental work.

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Susana Alexandre dos Reis, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais

Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Nature Sciences of the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. E-mail: susana.reis@ipleiria.pt.

PhD in Didactics and Training and Master in Pedagogical Supervision, by the University of Aveiro. She is currently a teacher in the under graduation and master on teachers training and continuous teacher training programmes. Her research focus the topics of teacher’s training and also science teaching and learning.

Filipe Santos, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais

Professor of the Department of Communication, Education and Psychology of the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. E-mail: fsantos@ipleiria.pt.

PhD in Informatics, by the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. He has been participating in several national and European projects on Educational Technology. His research focus the topics of Educational Technology and, to a lesser extent, Technologies for Development.

Published
26-04-2016
How to Cite
Reis, S. A. dos, & Santos, F. (2016). In-Service Education of Science Teachers: Virtual Simulators as a Resource for Experimental Work. Interuniversity Electronic Journal of Teacher Formation, 19(2), 209–220. https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.19.2.253691