ITEMS (Improving Teacher Education in Mathematics and
Science) is a Lifelong Learning Programme KA4 project
(2009- 2010). Its aim is to develop a framework for
improving the competencies of science and maths teachers
and, consequently, to increase students attainment and
interest in these areas.
ITEMS partnership: CEFIRE (Spain), Second Level Support
Service (SLSS) from Ireland, Gimnazija Poljane (Slovenia)
and Gymnasium Isernhagen (Germany). The project also
relies on the cooperation of European Schoolnet.
Please note that for practical reasons, the initial
development of modules and testing of courses with teachers
in Ireland was largely conducted on the pre existing site
www.sors.ie.
This has now been completed and further development and
operation of all courses will be done on this ITEMS site.
Some of the ITEMS work is linked from the home page of
SORS.
Initial development produced courses suitable for both
teachers and students: teachers could then switch from
student to teacher mode when confident of operation as a
student.
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the
author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.
