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

Activities:

• discussion points• quizzes• glossaries• forums

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.

• Developing and using scientific ideas:

• Promoting student thinking

• Assessing progress:

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: itemsproject@gmail.com