More generally, Magnusson, Krajcik and Borko (1999) posit that a teacher’s knowledge and beliefs about the purposes and goals for teaching science are related to the teaching approaches they take. A more didactic orientation is associated with the goal of transmitting the facts of science where the teaching approaches include the teacher conveying information, and students being expected to learn fact. Magnusson et al. provide research evidence showing how such orientations may influence the development of PCK accordingly. In the same vein, Henze, van Driel and Verloop (2008) hypothesise that secondary teachers’ development of PCK is related to teachers’ general pedagogical knowledge and their beliefs about the nature and purpose of science education. A greater influence on teaching strategies used by the secondary teachers may be associated with the focus on assessment, especially in the senior school, and the need to ‘cover’ the content (Hume & Coll, 2008). That most of the strategies encouraged on the ITE course were reported as being used successfully was pleasing, as was the subtle shift from teacher-led approaches toward student-led. The reported increase in use of internet resources, particularly video-clips from sites such as YouTube, is a recognisable trend in this group of early career science teachers. The increase in the use of field trip is most likely related to having opportunities to be able to organise them as they said there were relatively few when they were student-teachers on practicum placements.