Table 7:An interview with a Primary school science coordinator

Sample interview questions for the

Principal and/or science
coordinator/teacher re: science
provision in the setting.
Is there a science coordinator and/or
how many specified science teachers
are there in the school?

What are the duties/responsibilities of

the science teacher/coordinator?

Does she teach any, all students or just
specific year groups?

Obtain a teaching schedule and any
schemes of work, lesson plans, software
used etc. from the science
coordinator/teacher.

Responses from the Principal

and/or science
coordinator/teacher re: science
provision in the setting.

-Yes there is science coordinator for
8 teachers.

-The duties is provide all the
materials that students need it and
provide a unite plane for the science
classes.

- She or He teaches all the students
like other teacher.

Who is responsible for science policy

and provision within the setting?
(Can we obtain a copy of the policy?)

The school is responsible to provide
the science policy.
All science teachers should follow it.

Online/Blended Learning:

There is no online site.
Does the setting have its own website? If However if there was I think all
so, what is the URL, who created it and
science teachers should managing it
who is responsible for managing and
and have validity to updating it with
updating it?
new recourses.

Is there any online/blended learning
taking place related to science? If so,
how is this delivered?

What ICT resources are used specifically
for teaching science?
What science
equipment/manipulatives/resources
can be found the setting? (Is there a list?
Differentiate between the classroom; the
science lab and other areas in the setting
e.g. library)

The lab equipment is different from

other setting in the school.
We can found students chairs that
give the feeling of comfortable
during the lesson.
Also the lab includes all science
materials the students need it for

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Is there a budget for materials?

doing the experiment for example

the binocular, washer for the gas
Who trains teachers and staff in the use and other materials.
the equipment?
Also there was budget for
materials.
Who manages the equipment and
The science coordinator trains the
materials?
teacher and the stuff in using the
equipment in good way without any
mistakes.
Each science teacher when they
finish from the lesson they should to
manages the equipment and the
materials.
Is/Are there dedicated science labs in
The labs used by teachers and
this setting?
students in same time. There are
If yes, how is it used and by whom? How two labs in the school. In the front
is it organised? What equipment can be of the lab there is a teacher table
found here?
and in the middle are students
table. Beside the walls there tables
If no, why not? e.g. lack of funds? No
for sorting different materials that
need? Enough science equipment and
students need it during the lesson.
expertise in each classroom?
The place had enough specialist
science teachers, technicians and
Does the setting feel it has enough
dedicated science room.
specialist science teachers, technicians

and dedicated science rooms?
Which science resources does the

setting feel it needs or would like to
Science kits, books, lab equipment,
have to achieve its vision or better
models and wifi.
science teaching and learning?
From these resources the science
teaching will improve and it will be
e.g. Science Kits, books, wifi,
easy for students in same time.
manipulatives/models, digital
cameras/camcorders, lab equipment OR
soft materials (consumables- colored
paper, glue, popsicle sticks etc.).
What are the safety rules?

There are safety rules hanging in the
Are the safety rules posted in the science wall and the school is develop it.
setting?
Also there was a machine that gives

off the dangerous gas from the lab.
Who developed these and are they
mandatory/enforced?

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What safety equipment is available and

when is it used commonly?
There is one thing called shower it
cleaning for the eyes, when students
Is safety equipment available for all
by accident some liquid fall in their
students in the classrooms?
clothes they can clean themself in

that thing. Second, when the smoke
Is equipment cleaned, if so by whom?
or gas fills the lab there is machine
Who manages this duty?
taking all the smoke to outside? The
equipment is clean by students
before doing the experiment and
when they finish they clean it also.
Planning for learning- how are the

science lessons planned for in the
Planning of learning depends on
setting?
term planned. The teachers provide
the plan as weekly curriculum
Does the MOE/Zone/KHDA provide unit palmary.
plans/lesson plans? (can we obtain a
There is a daily and weekly discus
copy of this?)
plan according to the students need

and it about that topics.
Are there weekly planning meetings?

What is usually done in the planning
Also we manage the lesson and
meetings?
what students need to know by

meeting all science teachers.
Who attends the planning meetings?
From the meeting we try to achieve
the science goals, which are
Does the school have specific goals
important.
related to science (TIMMS scores etc.)?
How is learning assessed in the science
classroom?
- Each teacher used summative
assessment to assess students
Is there an assessment plan for the
learning.
semester? What does it include?
- The teacher collect students data
for help him to improve and look at
Do teachers collect student data? What strength and weakness point.
data, when, and what is it used for?

- Students get the feedback as sheet
How do students get feedback so that
sticking in the books or from teacher
they can make improvements?
directly.
What science professional development

/ training do teachers currently receive Yes , the science teacher have a
or have recently had?
documents includes professional
How frequently and from whom did they development and planning for it in
/are they receiving this?
same time .

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Do they have a document that outlines
this PD?

What PD do they think teachers in the
setting still need?