. A teacher education resource for learning to teach science: Workbook
The teacher-training resource that structures the course is a workbook which we have entitled "Learning to teach science through school research" (Martin del Pozo et al., 2012; Rivero et al., 2012). The research team designed this workbook based on the results of previous educational research projects on professional knowledge and initial primary teacher training in the area of Experimental Sciences.
It has been validated by six experts in the field by means of a discussion session in which they were asked to value both the formative aspects (how coherent the workbook was with the principles of research on practical professional problems, on socio-constructivism, and on interaction with innovative experiences) and its capacity as a research tool (the extent to which research can be conducted on the basis of the students' productions using the workbook – in particular, considering the progression of the students' didactic knowledge and the definition of their Itineraries of Progression, together with the ideas that either hinder or facilitate that progression).
The workbook proposes the investigation of four professional issues related to the school curriculum:
1. School content (selection criteria, types of content, organization, and presentation to pupils).
2. Ideas of the pupils (nature of their ideas, change, and educational use).
3. Teaching methodology (types, concept and sense of the activities, and sequencing criteria).
4. Evaluation (sense, criteria, and instruments).
The working summary, complemented with the use of different types of documents (legislation, textbooks, the students' own documents, etc.), is as follows