Inspiring Science Education Academy 2016

Marathon, Greece, 10-15 July, 2016

http://ise.ea.gr

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What is the ISE Academy 2016?The ISE Academy 2016 courses – an overview What will I learn at the ISE Academy 2016?What is Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE)?Funding by Erasmus+ How to apply for funding?

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ISE Academy – Marathon, GreeceJuly 10-15 2016

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http://www.inspiringscience.eu/

Questions, comments, ideas? Contact us:

Mr. Sofoklis Sotiriou: sotiriou@ea.gr Mr. Jens Koslowsky: koslowsky@ea.gr

Organiser: ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI

Research & Development DepartmentD.Panagea, 15351, Pallini AttikisTel. +30 210 8176790

The overall aim of the ISE academy is:• to introduce participants to the significance and opportunities of inquiry-

based science teaching through the use of open and online resources in STEM education;

• to enable teachers to successfully find, develop and apply the innovative tools and multidisciplinary teaching techniques that will help them create attrac-tive science lessons and foster the interest of their students in science topics;

• to support the continuous professional development of teaching profession-als to increase their skills and competences to become innovators and crea-tors of content rather than being users of existing material.

What is the ISE Academy 2016?The Inspiring Science Education Academy 2016 (ISE) is specifically designed for teaching professionals in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and consists of several courses. The common objectives of all ISE courses are to introduce teachers to implementing Inquire Based Sci-ence Education (IBSE), as well as to apply resource based and project-based teaching approaches. Teachers and education professionals will be trained in linking those approaches with the numerous collections of open digital edu-cational resources, in order to design educational scenarios by repurposing existing ICT and online based tools.

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The ISE Academy 2016 is endorsed by:

European Physical Society

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From Telescopes to Accelerators

The Discover the cosmos course will enhance science education by presenting the fabric of the cosmos as it was shaped by scientific evidence and explanations over the last 400 years of scientific advancement. Read more here: http://ise.ea.gr/content/description-discover-cosmos-telescopes-accelerators

Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning At School

The Go-Lab course will introduce teachers to the use of online virtual experiments and remote laboratories as well as inquiry-based science teaching techniques in order to help them develop, improve and enhance their teaching skills and practices. Read more here: http://golab.ea.gr/

Space Awareness Inventory of online labs

The Space Awareness course is introducing teachers to learning methods that have demonstrably engaged young children in science in the long term and inspire them towards space related career paths. Read more here: http://space-awareness.ea.gr/en

Creativity through Early Years Science Education

The CEYS course will support classroom innovation and to train teachers and leaders of European schools to act as successful change agents in their schools in order to promote creative approaches, in both teaching and learning, to science learning in preschool and the first years of primary school. Read more here: http://cls.ea.gr/

From Geospatial Thinking to Teaching Geospatially

The GEOTHINK course is addressed to teachers across all subject areas who are interested in developing their own as well as their students’ geospatial thinking skills. Read more here: http://geothink.ea.gr/

The ISE Academy 2016 courses – an overview The ISE Academy offers in 2016 the following courses:

Quantum Spinoff: Connection Schools with High-Tech Research and Entrepreneurship

The Quantum Spinoff course will support to connect school science with nano-research, and show how this is all leading to emerg-ing, sustainable, technologies giving rise to a growing field of entrepreneurship in the nano-industry. Read more here: http://qs.ea.gr/

CREATIONs - Developing an engaging classroom

The CREATIONs Summer School introduces innovative approaches and activities that involve STEM teachers and students through creative ways based on the arts. Read more here: http://creations.ea.gr The presented and offered tools and resources that will be used in all courses are not limited to their thematic domain. Instead they can be applied in a broad range of syllabus areas and scientific topics, because they do not impose a fixed curriculum but intend to support a model that can be customized based on location, culture and school, as well as cross-disciplinary situations. This way the resources and methodologies taught in the courses are ideal to be used in a European context for differentiated instruction.

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At the end of the 6-day ISE Academy 2016 the participants will:• Know and understand the concepts and skills of inquiry based

science education (IBSE) and its various applications taking into account different teaching and learning styles;

• Bring into their classroom a unique collection of digital resourc-es and tools that are based on real-world problems;

• Appropriately select and exploit freely available eLearning tools and resources to create educational scenarios that suit their own needs;

• Understand the concept of “Big Ideas of Science” as a mean of building multidisciplinary activities;

• Be able to develop strategies on how to embody and deploy new methodologies into the curriculum and their everyday sci-ence teaching practice;

• Be acquainted with the potential of popular social media tools, science outreach websites and teachers’ communities;

• Be part of the ISE European community where teachers, teach-er trainers, education policy makers, practicing scientists and

others are included to expand the learning environment be-yond the school walls and expand opportunities for teachers’ professional development;

• Have experienced a creative and inspired working atmosphere as well as a culture of collaboration among teachers of differ-ent science disciplines in organizing multidisciplinary activities to commonly develop ideas for Erasmus+ Strategic Partner-ships;

The ISE Academy 2016 offers a comprehensive open learning network approach that allows teachers to access and analyze their colleagues’ course materials, share their own and collabo-rate with each other. All courses will encourage participants to examine their own teaching practices and compare them in the light of the best performing approaches developed during the academy.

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What will I learn at the ISE Academy 2016?

Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) is an essential and im-portant part for pupils and students education. IBSE enables students to develop key science concepts (e.g. big ideas of sci-ence) which empower them to understand the events and phe-nomena of relevance in lives. However, teaching IBSE entails ambitious learning goals for students and is thus com-

plex and challenging for teachers to enact. Moreover, many teachers have not experienced IBSE instruction as learners and thus need guidance in enacting this type of instruction. Teach-ers must learn different instructional strategies as well as also re-conceptualize or change their conception about the meaning of teaching.

What is Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE)?

Your participation in any ISE Academy 2016 course can be funded by the Erasmus+ Programme (Key Action 1, Mobility project for school education staff). Teachers interested in the ISE Summer Academy 2016 can apply to their National Agencies for an Eras-mus+ funding. The applications are submitted by the schools, and no individual personal applications can be submitted. The deadline

for funding applications is February 2nd, 2016, 12:00 (noon) CET.Eligible countries for Erasmus+ funding are the 28 EU member States, plus Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and FYROM. Since the course is taking place in Greece, all par-ticipants from Greece are unfortunately not eligible to apply for an Erasmus+ grant to attend it.

Funding by Erasmus+

The steps to follow to apply for an Erasmus+ (School Education Staff Mobility) grant are:• Contact your National Agency to obtain information on the

grant application procedures in your country. • Contact us by e-mail (see contact details) to express your in-

terest in our courses and if you need assistance with the ap-plication procedure. By doing so we will reserve places for your school/organization.

• Register your school/organization on the European Commission Authentication Service (ECAS) if not already registered.

• Log in to the Participant Portal with your ECAS account details and register your organization to obtain your unique Partici-pant Identification Code (PIC), if not already registered.

• Download the application form for School education staff mo-

bility of the Erasmus+ Programme from the website of your National Agency.

• You will receive our application assistance form, giving useful guidelines on how to fill it in.

• Fill in and submit the application form to your National Agency. The deadline is February 2, 2016, 12:00 (noon) Brussels time.

• Do not forget to inform us as soon as you get notified from your National Agency whether your grant application is ac-cepted or rejected.

• After having submitted the funding application, fill in the reg-istration form to the ISE Summer Academy 2016 with your de-tails. This is an individual registration form, so if there is more than one participant from the same school, each one will have to submit a separate registration form.

How to apply for funding?

The Inspiring Science Education Academy 2016 is organized with support from the European Commission in the context of the Seventh Frame-work Programme (FP7). This publication reflects only the views of the Inspiring Science Education consortium members, the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

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