ACKNOWLWDGEMENTS to Prof. Joseph DEPIREUX

1. NA KTÓRYM ETAPIE SYSTEMU EDUKACYJNEGO ZACZYNAMY KSZTAŁCIĆ UMYSŁ FIZYKA?AT WHICH STAGE OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DO WE START CREATING AWARENESS OF A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER?Alicja Wojtyna-JodkoStowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Przedmiotów Przyrodniczych i Technicznych (SNPPiT)Bydgoszcz e-mail: awjodko@wp.pl www.snppit.pl

2. ACKNOWLWDGEMENTS toProf. Joseph DEPIREUX This presentation is the result of many years of my co-operation with prof. J. Depireux within: • EPS: Advisory Committee on Physics Education of the European Physical Society • GIREP: International Research Group on Physics Teaching • ATEE: Association for Teacher Education in Europe

3. PLAN OF THE PRESENTATION • The role of an educational system in a state functionning • EU educational policy • University in a society • Pre-university education • SNPPiT activities for education • Summary

4. THE ROLE of an EDUCATIONALSYSTEM in a STATEFUCTIONING AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM One person makes decisions. DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM Decision making is shared. NGOs of T E A C H E R S and P A R E N T S E D U C A T I O N A L P O L I C Y LOCAL DEPARTMENTS FOR EDUCATION SCHOOLS NO INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENT INITIATIVE IS FORESEEN NOR ACCEPTED. INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENT INITIATIVE IS WELCOMED AND ASSESSED.

5. A STATE RECRUTING TEACHERS POLICY N u m b e r of T e a c h e r s very good bad good bad Teacher’s quality

6. U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassadors Fellowship • Teachers with successful strategies for increasing student achievement are encouraged to apply for Teaching Ambassador Fellowship positions with the U.S. Department of Education for the 2009-2010 school year. Teachers will be chosen based upon their record of leadership, impact on student achievement and potential for contribution to the Department and the field. • The program offers two tracks: Classroom and Washington Fellows.

7. U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassadors Fellowship • Classroom Fellows will serve their regular teaching contracts with their districts and will be paid to perform additional fellowship duties for the Department of Education. As practicing classroom teachers, these Fellows will share an important perspective for -- and will gain more knowledge about -- education policy and program development. (…) • Washington Fellows will serve as full-time federal employees in Washington, D.C., from the summer of 2009 through June 2010. They will be placed in appropriate positions within the Department of Education to work on education program development and implementation. (…) • Applications for both tracks are due March 16, 2009.

8. EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (1) • March 2000 Lisbon European Council Declaration: „The collective intention for Europe is to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”. • December 2008 European Commission communicated: „An updated strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training”. • 2009 The European Year of Creativity and Innovation

9. EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (2) • General trends: • Ageing of societies – new jobs to assure both high standards of living and high standards of social care, • Climate change – new jobs to create a low carbon economy, • Development of ICT and nanotechnologies, • Increasing number of institutions in education and training sector.

10. EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (3) • Key competences and skills needed: • Communication in the mother tongue and in foreign languages, • Digital competences, • Cultural awareness, • Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, • Competence in math, science and technology, • Learning-to-learn skills, • Ability and willingness to keep learning new and specific skills for developing jobs (lifelong learning). UPGRADING AND UPDATING SKILLS ARE NOT JUST LUXURY FOR HIGHTECH PROFESSIONALS BUT IT IS A NEED FOR ALL.

11. STRUCTURE OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN POLAND

12. UNIVERSITY IN A SOCIETY AUTHORITIES INDUSTRY SERVICES INNOVATION CENTRES UNIVERSITY: scientific researchers lecturers equipment students EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: Teachers’ Training Centres SCHOOLS: teachers equipment pupils/students SPIN-OFFs FINAL EXAM • STUDENTS: • sound basic knowledge • interest in the subjects • skills • ability to learn • motivation for further intellectual development

13. PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

14. OBSERVATIONS

15. CONCLUSIONS (1) • Declarative education applied in Poland prepares our young generationmorefor life in an authoritarian than a democratic country. • In the European Union countries with a long democratic tradition based on a market economy the educational system prepares the young generation to: • be able to assure economic status for themselves and their families by using their knowledge, initiative and entrepreneurship, • being conscious citizens of a democratic state, • continue personal development of themselves and stimulate intellectual development of their children.

16. CONCLUSIONS (2) • The educational system is focused on pupils’ learning process with the guidance of teachers. Stress is put on: • higher order thinking skills, • basic competences. • These goals are achieved by implementing projects and competitions into organisation of thelearning process at all levels of education.

17. CONCLUSIONS (3) • The intellectual development of a person starts in early childhood. • Distorted emotions of a child disturb its intellectual development. • Increasing awareness of parents of their influence on the emotional and intellectual development of their child in early childhood is needed. • LIFELONG LEARNING starts at the moment of BIRTH and lasts till the END OF LIFE.

18. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS • Cognitive skills: - analysis, synthesis, evaluation, problem solving, decision making, • Personal skills: - creativity, initiative, entrepreneurship, perseverance, ingenuity, acting safely with respect to oneself and others, co-operation, leadership, • Communicative skills: - written, graphical, tabular, symbolic presentation, oral responses to larger groups, • Social value: - decision making in a social, environmental, economic or political context with a sound justification, • Self-evaluation, assessment.

19. Learning science at primary and lower secondary levels BASE FOR COMPETENCES(1)

20. Learning science at primary and lower secondary levelsBASE FOR COMPETENCES (2)

21. Learning science at primary and lower secondary levelsBASE FOR COMPETENCES (3)

22. SNPPiT ACTIVITIES • 16 annual conferences for teachers MIOKON (1991 – 2006); • Information Bulletin „Przyroda i Technika w Szkole” (50 issues, 1990 - 2007); • Educational trail in Nowy Fordon (2003); • Aviation class in XVI LO in Bydgoszcz (2003-2006); • Spacecraft Model Competition for primary and secondary school pupils (2003-2006); • The series of9 open lectures on „My knowledge helps me in guiding the correct development of my child” for parents, grandparents and educators (2007-2009); • Physics Experiment Competition for primary (since 2008/2009) and for lower secondary school pupils (since 2009/2010); • Seminar for Young Experimentators (since 2009/2010).

23. MIOKONMiędzynarodowa Interdyscyplinarna Otwarta Konferencja NauczycielskaGENERAL CONFERENCE OF TEACHERS 1. „How to Teach about the Protection of the Environment?”, 1991, WSP Kraków; 2. „Education– Environmental Protection - Industry” , 1992, ATR Bydgoszcz; 3. „Microcomputers in Teaching Science and Technology”, 1993, WSP Zielona Góra; 4. „Light in Teaching Science and Technology”, 1994, WSP Częstochowa; 5. „Energy and Environment”, 1995, Uniwersytet Gdański; 6. „Environment and Cancer Prevention”, 1996, SGGW Warszawa; 7. „New Environmental Friendly Materials”, 1997, Uniwersytet Opolski; 8. „Science and Technology Serving the Environment”, 1998, Politechnika Łódzka, Filia w Bielsku-Białej; 9. „Science and Technology for RestructuringIndustrial Regions”, 1999, Politechnika Śląska, Gliwice; 10. „Marine Science and Technology”, 2000, WSM, Szczecin; 11. „Science and Technology Serving Aviation”, 2001, WSOSP, Dęblin; 12. „Environmental Management”, 2002, Politechnika Białostocka; 13. „Ecology inTourism”, 2003, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski; 14. „Technology in Medicine”, 2004, Śląska Akademia Medyczna, Zabrze; 15. „Aviation and Space Technology”, 2005, WM ATR Bydgoszcz; 16. „Water management”, 2006, IG UKW Bydgoszcz.

24. INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL TRAIL in NOWY FORDON„FOLLOWING the PILOTS of GLIDERS”INAUGURATION CEREMONY the 5th of June 2003

25. INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL TRIAL „FOLLOWING the PILOTS of GLIDERS” OSKO IKAR 2003 E-mail: awjodko@wp.pl The (Polish) Association of Teachers of Ntural Sciences and Technology (SNPPiT), Local authorities: Rada Osiedla „Nowy Fordon” (RONF), Bydgoski Club of Aviation Seniors (BKSL), 2nd Corp of Air Defence, Bydgoski Aeroclub, 92nd Bydgoska Scout Group „PUSZCZA”, Primary Schools nr 65, 66, 67, Gymnasium nr 5, Upper Secondary Technical School (ZSO) and XVI GENERAL UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL (XVI LO), Bydgoszcz Department of the Polish Botanical Society (PTB), Science Club of Zoologists (KNZ), Factory PESA BYDGOSZCZ SA Holding, Forest Inspectorate Żołędowo, Landscape Park of the Lower Vistula River.

26. SECTION on AVIATION in UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL (2003) • AIMS: Each alumnus is able to: • build a flying model and pilot a glider • know the structure and functioning of a civil aviation system (passengers’ transport and cargo) as well as military aviation system in Poland and other European countries • FORMS OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES • classroom lessons (teacher’s presentation, students’ experiments and exercises, projects presented by students) • afternoon activities (a flying models club, a sport club, seminars on contemporary issues presented by specialists invited from other European countries, organised in co-operation with SNPPiT) • scientific excursions to: Ultra Light Gliders Program (ULS) at The Warsaw University of Technology, the airport in Bydgoszcz and in Warsaw, Military Aviation Works (WZL NR 2) in Bydgoszcz, Experimental Production of Gliders Company (PZL BIELSKO), The Air Force Academy (WSOSP) in Dęblin, other companies producing aeroplanes, International Fair in Poznań, airports in other European countries (for instance in Frankfurt, D and in Liége, B) • holidays camps (sport and in an air club) • stay at an airport and Military Aviation Works (WZL) • TOPICS • Structure of aeroplane • Communication systems • Navigation systems • Meteorological services • On the ground services (airport, aeroplanes producing and renovating companies) • Training in physical exercises • Training in piloting a glider • Contemporary issues • English for special purposes (aviation) • COMPULSORY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS • participation in a flying models competition with a self-built flying model (class I) • presentation of a project (class II and III) • presentation of a project (class II and III) • self prepared broadcast • reports on scientific excursions (class I, II, III) • results in all sport disciplines • gliding pilot licence (class II) • participation in seminars (class I, II, III)

27. SPACECRAFT MODEL COMPETITION(primary and secondary levels) The third edition 2005/2006 The GROUP of SCHOOLS nr 20 in Bydgoszcz

28. SNPPiT: Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Przedmiotów Przyrodniczych i TechnicznychIP UKW: Instytut Pedagogiki, Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w BydgoszczyPROGRAM of the series of OPEN LECTURES MY KNOWLEDGE HELPS ME IN GUIDING THE CORRECT DEVELOPMENT OF MY CHILDfor parents, grandparents and educators(October 2007 – May 2008) The roleof parents and educators in developing cognitive abilities of a child, dr Małgorzata ZABŁOCKA, Why are some children rejected by their classmates? prof. dr hab. Maria DEPTUŁA, Disturbances in behaviour of the young generationprof. dr hab. Teresa SOŁTYSIAK, The styles of grandparentship dr Danuta SEREDYŃSKA, About the need and inability to sameness forming in the Proteus epoch, prof. dr hab. Roman LEPPERT,VENUE:a lecture hall at UKW, Bydgoszcz, ul. Chodkiewicza 30

29. Prof. dr hab. Maria DEPTUŁA presenting her open lecture, UKW, the 5th of December, 2007

30. SNPPiT: Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Przedmiotów Przyrodniczych i TechnicznychPROGRAM of the series of OPEN LECTURES„MY KNOWLEDGE HELPS ME IN GUIDING THE CORRECT DEVELOPMENT OF MY CHILD”for parents, grandparents and educators(October 2008 – May 2009) Supporting family activities of the City Social CentreEwa TAPER, vice-director of the City Social Centre Subtitle of the series: „Children ask adults difficult questions” „Magic of crystals”, prof. dr hab. Kazimierz FABISIAK, director of the Institute of Physics UKW „Polyurethane resinsin the21st century”, prof. dr hab. inż. Bogusław CZUPRYŃSKI, the Institute of Technology UKW „Should we build the LOWER VISTULA CASCADA?”, prof. dr hab. Zygmunt BABIŃSKI, director of the Institute of Geography UKW VENUE: City Hall of the City of Bydgoszczy, ul. Jezuicka 1

31. PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS COMPETITION(PRIMARY LEVEL, the first edition 2008/2009)the 21st of April 2009, Primary School NR 2 in Bydgoszcz

32. SEMINAR FOR YOUNG EXPERIMENTATORS SEMINAR FOR YOUNG EXPERIMENTATORS (SEMEK 2009/2010, 2010/2011) is the follow up of the first edition of PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS COMPETITION for primary school and gymnasium pupils. It is organised by SNPPiT in co-operation with the Institute of Physics of the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz.