Improving Teacher Education in Maths & Science
A Lifelong Learning Programme EU project, Key Activity 4- Dissemination.January 2009 to December 2010
25th September 2010, Ptuj
Issues addressed:
• Need to improve teachers’ education
• Need for a change in Science and Mathematics Education, to increase students’ interest, to stimulate teacher motivation.
• Use of ICT, development of new learning environments and approaches to teaching.
ITEMS objectives:
• To develop online modules (Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules)
• To organise Training Teachers Courses
• To mentor teachers using ITEMs
• To monitor the dissemination, impact measurements and the quality assessment
Consortium:
•CEFIRE, Spain
• European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
• SLSS, Ireland
• Gymnasium Isernhagen, Germany
• Gimnazija Poljane, Slovenia
ITEMS modules:• Science:
– Astronomy, – Climate Change and – Electricity
• Maths: – Geometry, – Graphs and – Functions
Earth in the Universe
• Module in VLE Moodle
• Aimed for students 13 – 16 years old
• http://www.itemspro.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=65
Module Scientific Content:
• Where is the Earth’s place in the universe?
• Day and night • The Moon• The seasons
The learning tasks are organized in a sequence defined for the following steps:
• Taking account of student ideas.
ITEMS online courses:
• Electricity course (4-29 October 2010):
• Introduction to functions course (18 October – 12 November 2010):
• http://itemspro.net/moodle/
• Contact Project web site: itemspro.netCo-ordinator: [email protected]