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SPICE: TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ASCIENCE PEDAGOGY INNOVATION CENTRE FOREUROPE1) The project, 2) Policy, 3) Teachers & initiativesTRANSCRIPT
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
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SPICE: TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCIENCE PEDAGOGY INNOVATION CENTRE FOR
EUROPE1) The project, 2) Policy, 3) Teachers & initiatives
À. Gras-Velázquez, P. Chaluš, B. Grečnerova, B. Schwarzenbacher
http://europeanschoolnet.org - http://.eun.org 2
European Schoolnet + Science projects
Support schools in bringing about the best
use of technology in learning
Promote the Europeandimension in schools
and education
Improve and raise the quality of education
in Europe
Network of 31
Ministries of
Education in Europe
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
DZS...The Centre for International Services (DZS) is directly managed and subsidised by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Under the guise of the DZS, the National Agency for European Educational Programmes (NAEP) was established and is responsible for the implementation of the Lifelong Learning Programme and other educational programmes in the Czech Republic. NAEP offers promotion of educational programmes, assistance and consultancy services, management of funds and contracts for decentralized actions, monitoring, dissemination and valorisation and organisation of seminars and conferences. The DZS is managing other activities aimed at international cooperation of schools, study possibilities for foreigners in the Czech Republic and collaboration with other European Ministries of Education in the field of ICT in education.
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DGIDC...DGIDC is the Directorate-General of Innovation and Curricular Development (Direcção – Geral de Inovação e Desenvolvimento Curricular) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education. DGIDC has a specific mission to conceive, develop, coordinate and evaluate the pedagogical and didactic components of all levels of school education (pre-school, school, special needs, specialized teaching, eLearning) as well as to develop specific programs and measures to reduce school drop-out levels. Within a specific team, DGIDC also deals with the conception, development and evaluation of initiatives concerned with the use of computers, and technological resources in the learning process and promotes the effective use of computers and Internet by all educational agents (students and teachers alike).
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?+ LR =
http://inspire.eun.orgLR
Learning Resources
Use of LR in 62 schools // 5 – 18+ yr old students• > understanding/interest of students &teachers of MST + allows differentiated teaching / learning• > impact on boys than girls, decreases with age and independent of #• impact LT & ES > IT >> DE and ATOverall use of LR has a positive impact on MST education but attention to the technical requirements and localization of the LR.Gras-Velázquez, À., Joyce, A,. Kirsch M., et al. (2009), Inspire: Challenging the lack of interest in MST among students using LR, Insight report Available: http://inspire.eun.org/index.php/Publications
Inspire
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
OBJECTIVES of Spice• To establish a Science Pedagogy Innovation Centre for
Europe• To collect, analyze, validate and disseminate innovative
pedagogical initiatives, in Maths, Science and Technology, labelled as Good Practices (GP)
• Especially those GP based on inquiry-based learning
• Mostly ICT-based GP
• Enhancing pupil motivation for science studies (at primary/secondary level)
• The good practice criteria will allow new initiatives to have guidelines to ensure their innovation and quality.
to help teachers
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
Two-level
a) Policy level --> Science education experts panel
b) Teachers level --> Science and maths teachers panel
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
THE BIG PICTURE (step 0)
• A teacher panel, along with a science expert panel, from 16 educational systems from 15 European countries, will help the SPICE partners in defining good practice projects that will then be tested in schools in countries different to the one where the projects come from.
• Results of those trials will be shared on the occasion of a Summer school organized by DZS in the Czech Republic (26-29 August 2011).
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THE ROAD
24 teachers x 3 Initiatives = 72 --> 24 final GPs
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THE ROAD CONTINUES
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND RESULTS
• The dissemination of innovative pedagogical practice in MST subjects.
• The good practice criteria will allow new initiatives to have guidelines to ensure their innovation and quality.
• Understand conditions for travel well initatives.
• SPICE teachers will actively contribute to the Communities of Practice (CoPs) beyond their launch, which will take place during the Summer school.
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
Two-level
a) Policy level --> Science education experts panel --> Spice MST report v1 (BarbOra)b) Teachers level --> Science and maths teachers panel --> Evaluation (BarbAra)
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
Workshops
Spice summer academy 2011, Prague, 26 – 28 August 2011
ABOUT SPICEThank you!
• Basic information:
Coordinator: European Schoolnet (Belgium)
Partners: Dum zahranicnich sluzeb MSMT (Czech Republic) and Direcção Geral de Inovação e Desenvo (Portugal)
More information: Agueda Gras-Velazquez (Project Manager):
[email protected] Barbora Grečnerova (Project Manager from DZS):