Improving Teacher Education in Maths & Science

1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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 

4. Consortium: • CEFIRE, Spain • European Schoolnet (EUN),Belgium • SLSS, Ireland • Gymnasium Isernhagen, Germany • Gimnazija Poljane, Slovenia

5. ITEMS modules: • Science: • Astronomy, • Climate Change and • Electricity • Maths: • Geometry, • Graphs and • Functions

6. 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

8. Activities: • discussion points • quizzes • glossaries • forums

9. Module Scientific Content: • Where is the Earth’s place in the universe? • Day and night • The Moon • The seasons

10. 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.

11. Developing and using scientific ideas:

12. Promoting student thinking

13. Assessing progress:

14. ITEMS online courses: • Electricity course (4-29 October 2010): • Introduction to functions course (18 October – 12 November 2010): • http://itemspro.net/moodle/

15. ContactProject web site: itemspro.netCo-ordinator: itemsproject@gmail.com