Use of video-reporting of practical activities and study-visits to science and arts museums as tools for developing and spreading creative expertise in primary science teacher education

Preparing future teachers to use different contexts to organise science learning is an important part of primary teacher education in Sweden. Outdoor environment and science museums are often used for this purpose. This presentation reports the study summarising my teaching experience on the use of video-reporting of practical activities and study-visits to science and arts museums during science-orientation courses for prospective primary school teachers. Focus of these activities was on developing of a creative side of teacher professional competence. Students work with open practical problems outdoors, preparation of scenarios, video-recordings with mobile phones, editing and reporting of results made these course activities real exercise in creativity. Visits to science and arts museums created additional stimulus to instigate students’ creativity. The course evaluations reported high satisfactions of the students with these forms of course-work