Improving Teacher Education in Maths & Science A Lifelong Learning Programme EU project, Key Activity 4- Dissemination. January 2009 to December th September 2010, Ptuj

Issues addressed: Need to improve teachers’ education Need for a change in Science and Mathematics Education, to increase students’ interest, to stimulate teacher motivation. Use of ICT, development of new learning environments and approaches to teaching.

ITEMS objectives: To develop online modules (Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules) To organise Training Teachers Courses To mentor teachers using ITEMs To monitor the dissemination, impact measurements and the quality assessment

Consortium: CEFIRE, Spain European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium SLSS, Ireland Gymnasium Isernhagen, Germany Gimnazija Poljane, Slovenia

ITEMS modules: Science: –Astronomy, –Climate Change and –Electricity Maths: –Geometry, –Graphs and –Functions

Earth in the Universe Module in VLE Moodle Aimed for students 13 – 16 years old e/view.php?id=65http:// e/view.php?id=65

Activities: discussion points quizzes glossaries forums

Module Scientific Content: Where is the Earth’s place in the universe? Day and night The Moon The seasons

The learning tasks are organized in a sequence defined for the following steps: Taking account of student ideas. the learning tasks are organized in a sequence defined for the following steps

Developing and using scientific ideas:

Promoting student thinking

Assessing progress:

ITEMS online courses: Electricity course (4-29 October 2010): Introduction to functions course (18 October – 12 November 2010):

Contact Project web site: itemspro.net Co-ordinator: