Guidelines for content of pre-service professional education for secondary school science teachers [microform] / Ralph W. Lefler and Others

These guidelines accomplish four basic tasks--(1) they develop a rationale for the professional education sequence of experiences provided for the pre-service education of science teachers, (2) they present a scheme to show selected essential dimensions in the preparation of science teachers individually and as a group to the preparation of teachers in general, (3) they show the continuing nature of selected professional concerns throughout the period of pre-service preparation and the possible changing emphases which the several concerns receive as the student progresses through the program of preparation, and (4) they submit selected statements, including a brief rationale, and list specific items which are indicative of the competencies and knowledge needed by the professional teacher. The statements referred to in task 4 relate to (1) the school as an institution-history and philosophy, (2) human development, (3) learning, (4) measurement and evaluation, (5) teaching tactics, (6) curriculum development, (7) purposes and methods of science education, and (8) commitment to the profession. (ds)