Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Pre-service Physics Teachers: Exploring Physics Education Research in Practice

摘要

Each semester I puzzle over the ways in which I might engage future physics teachers with Physics Education Research (PER) literature during the "curriculum methods" that I teach as a part of our teacher education program. Despite many important advances that have been made by physics education researchers and the gradual dissemination of ideas like peer instruction, interactive lecture demon-strations, and the importance of identifying students' prior assumptions about physics concepts, the implementation of PER approaches can seem daunting and/or unfeasible to future physics teachers. In my experience, future physics teachers often struggle initially to trans-form the conclusions from PER to practical approaches to teaching secondary school students.