TEACHER TRAINING COURSE - ITEMS project (itemspro.net)

Title:ELECTRICITY: TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH INQUIRY WITH ONLINE SUPPORT

Organize: SLSS- ITEMS project

Description (to have an overview access as a guest at http://itemspro.net/moodle)

To present some teaching and learning materials on elementary electricity for students aged 12-16. The materials encourage and enable students to learn through inquiry and are made available through Moodle. Simulations and animations are embedded into inquiry based learning sequences to support real world activities.

After this course, teachers can be provided with a private copy of the materials to use interactively with their own students online if they wish. All hosting and related issues will be dealt with by the ITEMS project.

Location

Duration

Start Date

End Date

On line

1 month (20 h total)

04/10/10

29/10/10

Aimed at:

Participants: 15

•                 Teachers trainers from any country

•                 Science & Maths teachers from any country

Objectives

•                 To discuss the course materials and the didactical and technical approach.

•                 To increase the ability and opportunity to teach using online materials

•                 To share experiences about science teaching and learning

Course schedule

1^st week

Introduction to the course: Videoconference

Some background to inquiry and the structure of the online course

Student overview, starting out and a useful model of electricity

2^nd week

Student work in current, voltage, resistance and power

3^rd week

Student investigation and summary

4^th week

Conclusion of student work

Looking at the course as a teacher.

Application here: Applicants will be informed by email by Wednesday 29 September 2010