We are in the beginning stages of trying to develop a holistic model of teacher development that will integrate the development of teachers’ content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and teaching approaches, and ...

A holistic professional development (HPD) model was developed and tested with 75 secondary school physics teachers over a period of four years. This HPD model was developed in three phases and provides for the simultaneous ...

This paper describes one part of a long-term study aimed at developing and testing a model for holistic teacher development. Phase 1 involved obtaining baseline data, Phase 2 involved constructing the model and Phase 3 ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of Natural Sciences interventions in one of the circuits in Mpumalanga. This paper uses pedagogical content knowledge and the instructional learning theoretical ...

South African physical science teachers are currently implementing the new FET curriculum. This paper reports on the views of 59 physical science teachers currently teaching Grade 10 and 11 learners. Data from questionnaires ...

Although problem-solving is central to any Physics course, students often find it very difficult. If students find it difficult, what about the teachers? We suspected that the teachers’ problem solving skills needed ...

The incomplete understanding of Ohm’s law is a phenomenon widely experienced in introductory physics courses and high school science. Nonetheless, lecturers and teachers may be unaware of student’s inability to distinguish ...

The purpose of this study was the assessment and evaluation of Cypriot Secondary Technical and Vocational Education Students' perceptions about simple electric circuits and their comparison with the corresponding perceptions ...

A holistic model for the development of South African secondary school physics teachers in a distance education context was constructed. The model was tested with 75 teachers over a period of four years. The model was ...