Second Teaching: A Study of Small Group Physics Learning.
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| Title: | Second Teaching: A Study of Small Group Physics Learning. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Novemsky, Lisa |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 9 |
| Publication Date: | 2003 |
| Document Type: | Reports - Descriptive Speeches/Meeting Papers |
| Descriptors: | Educational Improvement, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Physics, Science Instruction, Summer Programs |
| Geographic Terms: | U.S.; New York |
| Abstract: | Many students have not succeeded in traditional science education. Second teaching is a new pedagogical construct - a model of small group activity designed to follow initia1 instruction, or first teaching - developed after watching successful small groups at work. Following Vygotsky's ideas, second teaching works to facilitate individual learning processes in a diversity of students who find a new academic domain foreign. In the process of second teaching, the collective wisdom of a small group acts as a mentor to individual learners. Many non- traditional students do well in a learning environment where second teaching is fostered. (Author) |
| Notes: | Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Philadelphia, PA, March, 2003). |
| Journal Code: | RIEAPR2004 |
| Entry Date: | 2004 |
| Accession Number: | ED479497 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Many students have not succeeded in traditional science education. Second teaching is a new pedagogical construct - a model of small group activity designed to follow initia1 instruction, or first teaching - developed after watching successful small groups at work. Following Vygotsky's ideas, second teaching works to facilitate individual learning processes in a diversity of students who find a new academic domain foreign. In the process of second teaching, the collective wisdom of a small group acts as a mentor to individual learners. Many non- traditional students do well in a learning environment where second teaching is fostered. (Author) |
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