TEAC 315: Teaching Science in the Elementary School—A Peer Review of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio

Teaching Science in the Elementary School (TEAC 315) is an upper-division course taken by elementary education majors as a requirement for the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Education. The peer review of teaching project had me identify concerns for teaching the elementary methods course. The concerns I wanted to address focused on eliciting teacher candidate’s views and experiences with teaching science as well as my ability to identify evidence of growth. The first area focuses on my needing to understand if I need to develop more instructional strategies to support teacher candidate growth. This involves both in terms of specific topics for teaching science as well as addressing an integrated view of teaching. The final area is the inability to determine when a response represents growth rather than presenting experiences