This is the coherence page, getting a grip on the overall direction of the project. When we put S-TEAM together, we had a diverse collection of individual ideas for contributions, and we still retain this diversity. The structure of the work packages reflects this diversity and copes with it using themes such as scientific literacy, professional development etc. One possible way of moving this forward might be to regard the training packages and related items as course modules for a professional development qualification at a European level. This would fit with the European principles for teacher competence, including the suggestion that teachers should be part of a learning organisation, that they should be lifelong learners and that they should be mobile within Europe. This is also in line with ideas about key competences in Europe: |