Supporting teachers in teaching primary science

By Mike Carroll

Issue 106 | Page 22 | Published Jan 2009

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Mike Carroll emphasises the importance of the means by which teaching staff are supported in developing the necessary knowledge about practice to enable them to take forward primary science.

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