Dear All,
On behalf of GEOTHNK consortium, we are pleased to announce details of the 1st GEOTHNK Summer School in Attica, Greece, 13-18 July 2014 organised by Ellinogermaniki Agogi.
It will be part of the Inspiring Science Education International Summer Academy, whose aim is to support the modernisation of Science education and training, including in curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers, and to the wide adoption of the recommendations of the Rocard Report "A new Pedagogy for the Future of Europe" (Rocard et al., 2007), that sets the basics for the introduction of the Inquiry Based approach in the science curricula of the Member States.
The teachers will not only be familiarized with a unique collection of open digital educational resources, but they will also be trained to link them with innovative pedagogical practices, such as using real world learning activities, implementing resource based and project-based approaches, in order to design educational scenarios by repurposing existing eLearning tools. The offered resources and tools, although associated with a broad range of curriculum areas, do not impose a fixed curriculum but support a model that can be customized based on location and culture, as well as cross-disciplinary situations, being thus ideal to be used in the European context for differentiated instruction. Teachers will also be trained to appropriately select and exploit freely available existing eLearning tools and resources in their educational scenarios that suit their own needs in terms of planning, implementing and sharing pedagogical ideas, managing their classroom and organizing the curriculum. This will further empower them to create effective project scenarios to use in the classroom, as well as in multiple environments such as face-to-face, online and other technology mediated learning. Such a comprehensive open learning networks approach that allows teachers to access their colleagues' course materials, share their own and collaborate is expected to enable all stakeholders to examine their own practices in the light of the best performing approaches. The Inspiring Science Education International Summer Academy is part of the ongoing effort to establish a European Science Education Academy which is supported by the European Physical Society (EPS).
Details at http://ise.ea.gr
This is a good program to help train school teachers , so please disseminate this info to your contacts in schools and teachers and as Margarita says the applications have to submitted by the school (not individually).
Best wishes,
Suchith
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From: Margarita Kokla [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 March 2014 11:59
Subject: 1st GEOTHNK summer school
Dear GEOTHNK partners,
The 1st GEOTHNK Summer School (http://ise.ea.gr/) will be held in Attica, Greece, 13-18 July 2014. This summer school is the first dissemination event to be organized by the consortium.
A critical point (as you probably already know) is that the Erasmus+ Programme follows a different application procedure for attending a summer school: a major difference is that one cannot apply anymore as an individual, but the application is submitted by the school.
Therefore it is crucial to disseminate this activity to as many schools and teachers as possible.
The deadline for submitting the application form for School education staff mobility
(http://golab2014.ea.gr/sites/default/files/school_education_staff_mobility_en.pdf)
of the Erasmus+ Programme is 17th of March 2014, 12:00 Brussels time.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Margarita
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Dr Margarita Kokla, P Eng
Lecturer
School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, H. Polytechniou Str., 15780, Zografos Campus, Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 7722637
Email: [log in to unmask]
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