The Europa portal has of course links to many past and current projects, and there are two documents available with brief details of FP6 and FP7 projects (not including S-TEAM though) 25 Sept: The Scottish government has a new action plan for school science. OECD have just released first results from the TALIS project on Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments. Thanks to M. Fatih Tasar for being first with the news! Here is a link to the Pro-base project. Intel have an initiative called Teach Advanced Online & Collaborative (TAOC). we are currently waiting to hear from them regarding participation in the reference group. Teach Advanced Online & Collaborative (TAOC) is an international CPD programme designed to capture the CPD evidence generated during curriculum re-development and the creation of related resources. It does this through the use of a five-step Learning Path. This five step approach provides a framework in which new ideas can be planned, developed, used and evaluated. The Pollen project recently held its Berlin European conference on science education in primary school and has just produced a booklet describing its main achievements since 2006. |