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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2016.36.2.0269

Exploration of Features of Cross-Curricular Instructional Consulting in Middle School Science Lessons through Case Study  

Kwak, Youngsun (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.36, no.2, 2016 , pp. 269-277 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases that have formed and operated teachers' learning communities through cross-curricular consulting at the school level. The purpose of this study is to explore cross-curricular instructional consulting as an activity of teachers' learning communities at the school level, and investigate the effect of cross-curricular instructional consulting on middle school science teaching. We analyzed features and limitations of cross-curricular instructional consulting revealed in three case studies in middle school, including open classes and instructional consulting sessions, and conducted additional instructional consulting on the same videotaped science classes with science experts from outside. According to the results, science inquiry experiments are often replaced with text reading and interpreting, students' misconceptions and exact scientific representations are ignored, and the goal setting as well as class coverage has been questionable and disputable in science classes resulted from cross-curricular instructional consulting. Discussed in the conclusion are the necessity of cross-curricular instructional consulting in middle school, and ways to overcome limitations of the method of cross-curricular instructional consulting, including alternatives to a praise-only policy in cross-curricular instructional consulting, ways to use cross-curricular instructional consulting without compromising the subject's essence, and ways to improve the undue authority of consultants.
Keywords
Cross-curricular instructional consulting; Content-specific consulting; Middle school science classes; Teachers' learning communities;
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