training methodology for education of informatics teaching staff in primary and secondary schools...
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Training methodology for education of informatics teaching staff in
primary and secondary schools
Leonid Stoimenov, FEEN
Dragan Gejo, RSD
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Overview
• Background– IT and Education
• Facts from Regional School Directorate
• Teaching methodology
• Conclusion
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Background
• Information Tecnologies (IT) – are the means that give us a challenge and ample
opportunity for social development. – Especially a great challenge for Serbia
• Informatics is important part of infrastructure for modern public economy and society development in Serbia*.
• The role of IT in education and development will be the central topic in next few years in Serbia*.*according to “Strategy of economic development of Serbia until 2010” given by Serbian government (Ministry of Science Technologies and Development, Belgrade, 2002, authors: group of experts, Edited by Vlastimir Matejic
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IT and Education
• Rapid changes in informatics need continuous education of teaching staff in primary and secondary schools.
• Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports, notes that “…the changes in global economic environment, the needs of economy, technology and development trends demands adequate educated individuals.”* *Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports, draft document, “Development of politics and strategies for professional education”, 2005
• The same document points out that …”transformation of educational process are an important assumption for the future society and economic development of Serbia”.
• Promptness of education of new and existing teaching staff is crucial.
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Informatics Education in Serbia
• Education in informatics in primary and secondary schools is not at adequate level: – bad equipment and accessibility of computers for the purposes
of education, and– low computer literacy of school-teachers.
• Serbia is deficient in educated teaching staff for informatics.
• The necessity of teacher’s further education has arisen also.– absence of permanent and continuous education of teaching
staff in primary and secondary schools*
*According to draft document of Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports “Development of politics and strategies for professional education”
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Facts from Regional School Directorate (RSD) Niš
• RSD covers main cities in Central Serbia (Niš, Prokuplje, Pirot).
• There are:– 122 schools
• 78 primary and • 44 secondary schools
– 299 Informatics teachers • 197 or 66% are in primary schools, and • 102 of them or 34% are in secondary schools.
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Facts from RSD – age structure
• More than 40% are older than 50, and
• even 67% is older than 40. Such age structure implies low level of
teacher’s knowledge about new trends and technologies in informatics.
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Facts from RSD – teachers education
• More than 30% (exactly 98 teachers) don’t have higher education (VI degree according to the Serbian law)
• Less than 27% (79 teachers) are educated at faculties probably with informatics in syllabus. – Tehre is not information about their diploma
supplement, and – there is not exact information about number of
teacher with higher education in informatics.
• 40% of teaching staff have higher education inadequate for informatics teachers.
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Facts from RSD – Informatics in schools
• Informatics as an optional course in primary schools. • There are not syllabuses for informatics courses – an
inadequate educated teacher decides what is important for teaching.
• There are some results in syllabus definition for secondary schools– a new curriculum for subjects of education in informatics in
secondary schools in 2002.– investment in raising awareness and computer literacy with
usage of IT. – Government of Serbia, in next two years, is planning to equip
1600 primary and secondary schools with 30.000 computers, Internet connection and appropriate software*
*Serbian Ministry of Finance, National Investment Plan for 2006-2011, Section “Education”, page 6, item 5.1.
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Training Methodology
• Great diversity in education of teaching staff. • A lot of informatics teachers have no adequate
professional background. • Younger teachers usually have better
informatics education. • Most of current informatics teachers have to
reinforce their knowledge.• Our training methodology will be focused on
continuous education of Informatics teachers in primary and secondary schools in Serbia.
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Training Methodology – blended technique
• Schools teachers have obligations in their schools during the semester, and we can not organize intensive and frequent courses for them.
• Our blended technique encloses: – (1) phase of preparation for e-learning; – (2) phase of distance learning (e-learning); – (3) seminars; – (4) and lab practices.
• Each trainee passing all four phases.
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Training process (1)
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Training process (2)
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Training process (3)
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Prerequisites
• We will establish a Center for Continuous Education at the FEEN.
• The Center will facilitate e-learning, seminars and workshops with practical work.
• We plan to provide continuous education using blended way of learning.
• A system for e-learning will be established and the portal for teachers will be developed under the supervision of EU partners.
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Seminar on E-learning
Selection of Informatics teachers
from RSD
120 teachers
Seminar on E-learning 1day
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E-learning courses
• We will develop courses for informatics teachers
• Aim is to innovate their knowledge and make them competent for new technologies.
• Teachers should be educated to use modern information technologies and apply them in teaching process
• In order to do that we will establish Web based platform for e-learning as a basis for life-long learning.
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E-learning courses (cont.)
E-learning – 3 courses
Computer Architectures and Networks
Modern Concepts in Programming
Internet Technologies
3 mo
nth
s
120 teachers120 teachers
120 teachers120 teachers
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Seminars
• After the stage of e-learning
• We plan to retrain 120 teachers
• In the final stage we will organize – Workshops for small groups
with accent on practical work, and
– testing of candidates.
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Seminars (cont.)
• Instructors from the FEEN will develop a proposal for teaching material and a set for lab practicing.
• Work with teachers using blended technique.
• Seminars for all teachers:– Computer Architectures and Networks– Modern Concepts in Programming– Internet Technologies
• Our plan is to provide materials for all seminar participants
• After each seminar, there are a distance training, workshop and exam.
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Seminars – details
• 120 trainees/teachers, • 6 groups, 20 trainee per seminar• 200 working hours: 2 months per trainee, 6 hours per day
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Formal Recognition
• The pilot program will be carried out with Ministry of Education and Sports for all schools under the RSD Nis.
• Seminars and course materials will be accredited by Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports.
• We plan to provide certificates for all candidates passing final test.
• Certificates will be authorized by FEEN, and approved by Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports.
120 retrained informatics
teachers
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Conclusion – overview of the methodology
• Schools teachers have obligations in their schools during the semester, and we can not organize intensive and frequent courses for them.
• Because of that, our blended technique encloses: – (1) phase of preparation for e-learning; – (2) phase of distance learning (e-learning); – (3) seminars; and– (4) lab practices.
• Each trainee passing all four phases. • 120 trainee, 20 per group• 200 working hours: 2 months per trainee, 6 hours per
day• The quotient of e-learning in educational process is
about 50%.
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