Teaching Science in Europe

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Teaching Science in Europe European exchange of
methods and concepts Experiences and
possibilities of the platform Science on Stage
Germany Dr. Wolfgang Welz, Vice Chairman
SonSD, Leading Education Authority Officer,
Cologne Stefanie Zweifel, Management Science on
Stage Germany, Berlin -------------------------
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• Content
• Focus on Teachers and Problems of Formal
  Teaching,Observations of a Critical Friend
• Initiative and Network of Science on Stage
  Deutschland e.V. (SonSD)
• The Project Teaching Science in Europe

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Formal teaching versus real life
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En français, Jackson, en français!
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• Why focus on teachers ?
• Non formal education activities are in today.
• However students spend most of their
  school-timein local school systems. ?
• Some key-questions
• How to integrate exciting experiences from trips
  to the external activities into formal education?
• How to improve impact, sustainability and quality
  of such external offers?

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Important Findings

• No educational system can rise above the quality
  of its teachers.
• The teachers influence on generating and
  fostering scientific literacy is fundamental.

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A glance at the dimension of the task and
responibility

• NRW BRD
• ( x5)gt
• schools 6.764 34.000
• teachers 186.040 930.000
• students,
• pupils 2.903.426 14.500.000
• (2005/06)

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educational law of nature
The diversity of the childrens heads is the
greatest obstacle to all formal teaching.
Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 1841)
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A completely normal classroom situation
Multiple Intelligences Approach (Martin Gardner)
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Verbal Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Visual / Spatial Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
Bodily / Kinesthetic Intelligence
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Intelligenzprofil nach H.Gardner
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Verbal Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Visual / Spatial Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
Bodily / Kinesthetic Intelligence
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Lernwelten
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Lernwelten
www.nmm.ch/nmm_allgemein/grundlagen.php
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• reducing
• the
• shadow
• of
• scientific
• illiteracy

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colour
of best practice
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Teachers are in charge to create a
dynamic learning enviroment
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• Science on Stage Deutschland e.V.
• Initiative to improve science teaching in
  Germany and in Europe
• Established as a non-profit association in March
  2003
• Derived from the German Organisation Committee of
  the European education initiative Science on
  Stage, organised by the EIROforum, financed by
  the 6. FRP of the European Commission
• Part of the EU project Nucleus
• Executive directors, members, sponsors,partners,
  network (EIROforum, NSCs, MNU, DPG, GDCh, vdbiol,
  LB, THINK ING., MINT-EC, foundations)

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• Objectives and tasks of SonSD e.V.
• Selection of the German delegation for the
  symposia Science on Stage (2000-2007).
• Build a network between teachers in Germany
  and Europe through
• Organisation of national and European workshops
  (since 2003)
• Publication, dissemination of teaching
  materials, discussion and integration of the
  results
• Sustainable Project Teaching Science in Europe
• -? Focus Promote a European exchange with
  pedagogues for Science Education

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• Process Teaching Science in Europe
• What teachers can learn from each other -
• Initiated by SonSD in November 2004
• Int. studies ? looking beyond nat. boundaries ?
  good practice examples new viewpoints ?
  solutions to improve science teaching
• 15 countries, 35 teachers
• Working groups, coordinated by pedagogues,
  scientists etc.
• Science in Primary School
• Interdisciplinary Approach of Science Teaching
• - The Role of the Experiment
• - Astronomy

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• Teaching Science in Europe
• European exchange, creation of teaching
  materials and guidelines based on the
  results of the working groups
• ? publication
• Final meeting 22.-24.09.2006 in Wolfsburg
  presentation of the publication and national
  releases
• 5.000 German and English copies
• Distribution national and EU level
• Opportunities to participate! ? Continuation
  2006-2008
• (Science in Kindergarten and Primary School,
  Self-Evaluation of teachers and Interdisciplinary
  Teaching)

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• Overview - SonSD-activities
• Workshops (NRW/2004, Hamburg 2005/06, BW 05/06,
  Bavaria 06/07)
• Competitions (Einstein/05, Zuse/06, Tension/07) -
  publication and distribution of good practice
• Science on Stage-festivals (POS 2000/01/03, SoS
  05/07) - Selection of German teachers,
  dissemination of results)
• Teaching Science in Europe (2004-06/2006-08)
• Innovative Technologies Move Europe (2005/06,
  2006/07) cooperation with a company, schools
  from 4 countries involved
• Symposia transfer of EU results

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• Summary and Perspective
• Successful teaching science and technology in
  formal educational systems must be thought in
  terms of Multiple-Intelligences-Approach.
• This necessarily leads to the integration of
  "non-formal" and external experiences.
• Science Centres, School Labs and Children
  Universities are good examples which seriously
  have to be discussed among teachers within the
  context of formal science-curricula.

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• Network
• MINT-EC (Society of Math.-Scient. Centres of
  Excellence at Schools) office
• DPG (German Physical Society)
• MNU (German Society for the Promotion of Math.
  and Science Teaching)
• GDCh (German Chemical Society)
• vdbiol (German Biological Society)
• EIROforum (ESA, CERN, ILL, ESRF, ESO, EFDA,EMBL)
  EU research organisations - Science on Stage
• Lenord Bauer GmbH, Oberhausen
• THINK ING. Initiative of the German Association
  of Metal and Electrical Industry Employers main
  sponsor
• Foundations (Müller-Reitz-Foundation, Wilhelm
  und Else Heraeus Foundation, Andrea von Braun
  Foundation)

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