ABSTRACT
Science teacher educators hold beliefs, values, and assumptions about science teaching and learning, and about teaching science teachers, that help guide their planning and instruction. It is important for methods course instructors to uncover their ideas, and then take actions consistent with them. In other words, defining your orientation to teaching teachers can help you design and teach the methods course. In this chapter we discuss the construct of orientations to teaching teachers, provide several
It’s Your Turn
examples of possible orientations to teaching science methods, and describe one orientation, which we call the reflection orientation, in greater detail.
