Mark Enfield Elementary Science Teacher Educator

School of Education Campus Boxx 3500 Peabody Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 COLE Program Coordinator menfield@email.unc.edu 919-843-4813

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Emergent Science literacy
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MSU - Elementary  Methods
UNC - Elementary Methods
Science for Elementary Teachers

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Teaching Science in the Elementary School

This page describes undergraduate teacher preparation of elementary science teachers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  This page primarily describes events from the course, but only represents aspects of the course.  General information about the course can be found at the the following page:

http://soe.unc.edu/academics/courses/educ514.php

Throughout my teaching, I have been working to integrate technology rich pedagogy for preservice teacher education students.  I have only taught one section of science methods, using the many resources of the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence.  This facility has allowed the students and me to examine video cases of science teaching, activly use technology resources, record our work (using digital images & video recordings) and participate in an innovative teacher education project.  All the resources for this course, including lesson plans, course documents, and records of classroom activity, are posted on the course Blackboard site.  The innovative teacher education project, ViSTA, presents video cases of elementary science teaching and facilitates inquiry and examination of those cases.