A considerable part of WP6, is comprised of the professional development training package and its accompanying book chapter, that each of the 12 partners will prepare. Towards this end, and in order to identify the needs each training package will seek to address, a literature review will be prepared by all WP6 partners. Additionally, this review will provide a common basis of knowledge for all S-TEAM members regarding the issues of professional development and inquiry methods facing each partner.
The final product of WP6 will be a series of case studies reporting on the design, development and validation of each training package. These case studies will be published as a book at the end of the project. The aim is to develop a common rationale for the case studies so that we can have a truly coherent volume rather than a set of disparate chapters.
Literature Review
The Literature Review Description provides guidelines for the preparation of the literature review which will describe each partner's current national knowledge concerning professional development and science inquiry methods on the one hand and the international literature regarding the specific focus area of their training package on the other.
The Framework for Case Study Reports
The objective of the Framework for Case Study Reports is to propose a definition of a case study for WP6, in an effort to better design the process of (a) developing the training modules for teacher professional development in science, (b) trial-testing and revising them based on the results (findings) and (c) reporting on their use for teacher training.