Product Description

This book will support trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of science is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). This new edition has been fully updated to reflect the new Professional Standards and will help trainees to identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate progress towards QTS.
The material is divided into five sections:

*Science background;
*Interest in science;

*Perception of competence and confidence in science;
*A science test;
*Targets for further professional development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #404500 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

From the Publisher
This book forms part of a series called 'Achieving QTS', which is aimed exclusively at trainee teachers. The series has been developed as course material and written according to the framework of the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). It includes over 20 titles, encompassing 'Audit and Test', 'Knowledge and Understanding', 'Teaching Theory and Practice' and 'Skills Tests' titles. As well as covering the core primary subject areas, the series addresses issues of teaching and learning across both primary and secondary phases.

Key features:

* Clearly linked to the Professional Standards for QTS.

* Specifically written for trainee primary and secondary teachers.

* Combines underpinning theory with practical classroom examples.

* Includes research summaries, short tasks and further reading.

About the Author
John Sharp and Jenny Byrne are both lecturers in science education at the Research and Graduate School of Education, University of Southampton.

Customer Reviews

to the point and easy to read
Covers a wide variety of topics in one slim volume, all the question and answers you were taught years ago and now need the cob webs removing from to enable you to remember them. A handy reference guide to enable you to test your knowledge in privacy.

Priamry Science, Audit & Test.
No problems with the book. However book took an eternity to arrive. When I emailed the supplier to ask why it was taking so long to get to me, unfortunately I did not receive a reply.

audit and test
Had to use this for uni, didnt find it relevant and book had already been written in.