- ICASE Projects
-- Professional
Reflection Oriented Focus on Inquiry based Learning and
Education through Science (EU - FP7 Project)
PROFILES
promotes IBSE through raising the self-efficacy of science teachers
to take ownership of more effective ways of teaching students,
supported by stakeholders. The proposal innovation is through
working with ‘teacher partnerships’ to implement existing, exemplary
context-led, IBSE focussed, science teaching materials enhanced by
inspired, teacher relevant, training and intervention programmes.
This is undertaken by reflection,interactions and seeking to
meaningfully raise teacher skills in developing creative, scientific
problem-solving and socio-scientific decision-making abilities in
students. The measures of success are through (a) determining the
self-efficacy of science teachers in developing selfsatisfying
science teaching methods and (b) in the attitudes of students toward
this more student-involved approach. Dissemination of approaches,
reactions, and reflections form a further key project target, making
much use of the internet and other formats useful for sharing
science teacher profiles in an interactive forum.
PROFILES involves the development of teachers on four fronts
(teacher as learner, teacher as effective teacher, teacher as
reflective practitioner, teacher as leader) consolidating their
ownership of society-led, IBSE approaches and incorporating
use-inspired research, evaluative methods and stakeholder
networking. The project disseminates its innovation withtrained lead
teachers spearheading further teacher development at pre- and
in-service levels and initiating a series of workshops for key
stakeholders nationwide. The project focuses on ‘open inquiry
approaches’ as a major teaching target and pays much attention to
both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of students in the learning
of science. The intended outcome is school science teaching becoming
more meaningful, related to 21st century science and incorporating
interdisciplinary socio-scientific issues and IBSE-related teaching,
taking particular note of gender factors.
PROFILES Prentation 1: Structure and
Philosophy
PROFILES Prentation 2: Introduction to
PROFILES
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- -- Popularity and Relevance of Science Education for Scientific
Literacy (EU - FP6 Project)
To promote scientific literacy and
to enhance popularity and relevance of science teaching and
learning. The main objectives of PARSEL are to develop, test and
disseminate pan-european science education modules for teaching
in grade 7 upwards. These modules are being developed, according
to a common model, by a consortium involving 8 Universities (from
Estonia, Denmark, Germany(2), Greece, Israel, Portugal and
Sweden) and the International Council of Associations for
Science Education (UK). PARSEL modules are intended to promote
scientific literacy and to enhance the popularity and the
relevance of science teaching. Teachers are being asked to try
out some of the modules in each of the countries and to report
back to PARSEL team on their suitability for enhancing the
popularity and relevance of science teaching.
to read more:
http://www.parsel.eu-
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