Please join us at 2pm in the Seminar space to support Selin as she defends her dissertation! All are welcome. 

Title: Developing Teacher Identity in Elementary Science: The Interaction between Student Sensemaking and Teacher Identity

Description: There is still much to learn about how we can capture and interpret changing science teacher identity to make critical implications for teacher education and student sensemaking in science. Therefore, this study aims to: a) investigate an elementary teacher’s developing identity to teach science over five-year period, b) investigating the interaction between the developing teacher identity and students’ sensemaking experiences in learning science. To do so, I specifically focused on an elementary teacher's individual, collective and practice level experiences in teaching science, as well as students sensemaking experiences in learning science.