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Join our EU project focused on improving teachers’ education in science and math, utilizing ICT and innovative teaching approaches to engage students and motivate teachers. Explore online modules, training courses, mentoring, and impact assessment.
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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: • Needtoimprove 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 ElearningModules) • 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 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/
ContactProject web site: itemspro.netCo-ordinator: itemsproject@gmail.com