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Interested in communicating with young people?  Training opportunity.

With support from the Royal Society and the Gatsby Charitable
Foundation, the Science Learning Centres have established a course for
researchers wanting to work with young people in schools.

This two day course will run from 10 am Monday 30th April to 4 pm
Tuesday 1st May 2007 at the National Science Learning Centre in York.


The Science Learning Centres have considerable experience in working 
with researchers as partners in professional development for science
teachers, seeing it as valuable way to reconnect with contemporary
science.

This course will support scientists wishing to have direct contact with
children, either in a classroom setting, or in a setting with a larger
audience of school children such as an assembly or a lecture
demonstration.

Participants will update their knowledge of what happens in schools
today,
learning about the current National Curriculum for science and how this
is
translated into teaching specifications and schemes of work. There will
be
opportunities to explore a range of approaches to working with schools,
and
to develop the skills needed to communicate their expertise to an
interested
but lay audience, using interactive techniques.

Selected school pupils will be invited to participants' presentations
and
will provide constructive feedback. Presentations will be captured on
video
and each researcher will be provided with a CD of their presentation and
the
feedback session for future reflection.

This course is free to active researchers, including travel expenses.

To register your interest or for more information, please contact the 
course leader, Katy Bloom at [log in to unmask]

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Catherine Aldridge
Network Project Director

National Science Learning Centre
(T) 07805 652 287
(F) 01904 328 328
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(Web) www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk

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Registered Office: National Science Learning Centre, University of York,
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