News about WP3 activities - Matthias has a provisional timeline available here.
Description of work
Work package 3 will be led by the Leibniz Institute for Science Education at the University of Kiel (IPN) with participation from all national liaison partners, who will evaluate "SINUS modules" with their respective teacher education institutions. For the SINUS programme, IPN has developed 11 modules for science teacherprofessional development that have been used in networks of teachers from 1800 schools in Germany. IPN also has access to science teaching approaches from the large scale programmes "Biology in Context", Chemistry in Context" and "Physics in Context". SINUS thus enables teachers to be supported in collaboratively reflectingupon, developing and evaluating their own instruction using the modules, guidelines, experience from SINUS and other programmes as a basis for further development. A useful presentation about SINUS can be found here and here is a useful journal article about SINUS.
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Deliverable | Date started | date completion | comments |
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3.1 National Workshops for quality development in science education | M1 | M6 | Sinus presentations already made in Trondheim and Lyon |
3.2 Training packages x 14 for teacher education institutions | M12 | M30 |
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3.3 Web based access and feedback system | M12 | M36 |
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3.4 Preliminary report on results of workshops | M6 | M9 |
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3.5 Final report on SINUS-based activities and outcomes | M30 | M33 |
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Timetable for activities in WP3 in the first year of S-TEAM
Activity start date end date comments
set up WPC 2009-05-10 2009-06-30 joint WPC with WP2; members: Doris, Manfred, Jens, Gultekin (Sibel is interested but has not yet confirmed)
WPC meetings meetings will be scheduled together with other project meetings as possible (ESERA 2009, International policy workshop 2010); members will get written information about progress in advance
scheduling of national workshops 2009-05-08 2009-08-15 combined workshops with WP2; scheduling with NLPs
inviting NLPs to organise workshops 2009-06-15 e-mail with aims and target groups, preliminary outline of workshop activities; timetable with dates of national workshops on S-TEAM homepage
national workshops 2009-06-30 2009-10-31 should be run mainly in September and October 2009; already fixed for Lithuania, Israel and France (see timetable)
preliminary report on workshops 2009-11-01 2010-01-31
development of training packages following workshops 2011-10-31 depending on particular situations and prevailing problems
online platform for exchange and feedback 2009-11-01 2010-4-30 preparation of an online platform: access to training packages and feedback on SINUS activities; choosing communication tools