Volume 1 A
Reconnaissance
1. What are your current conceptions about science teaching? What, in your opinion, does a person need to know in order to be a good science teacher?
2. Interview several science teachers to find out what they like most and least about teaching? What are they doing to improve or change those aspects they like least? Do teachers seem to agree on what they like most about teaching?
3. How important is imagination in science? In what ways can imagination be part of the secondary science classroom?
4. What has your experience in the science been like? Do you see science in the ways Bronowski, Feynman, Polyani, or Sagan see it? What is you notion of science?
5. Think back to your high school and college experience as a science student. Did you have any teachers that you admired, or considered to be outstanding science teachers? What characterized their teaching?