1h4 Girls in STEM - A series of online events to support girls in STEM education
2022-06-30 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Berlin)
ICSE invites you to a 1-hour-crash-workshop on
“Gender-sensitive Didactics in STEM Education: Research Findings and Practice Approaches”
In this workshop participants are introduced to research findings and practice approaches to support girls in STEM. Challenges and successful strategies in STEM education are discussed, new ideas, practical tips, and key insights are shared.

Please find more information concerning the event as well as the registration link here: https://icse.eu/hrf_faq/1h4-girls-in-stem-a-series-of-fee-free-online-events-by-gemnet-part-ii/
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3rd International STEM Education Conference - Promoting Key Competences in Education
2022-07-02 08:00 - 2022-07-03 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
An international multiplier event in the frames of STEMkey project will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on July 2-3, 2022.
The STEMkey Multiplier Event will take place as part of the 3rd International STEM Education Conference and the 3rd International STEM Teachers Conference, which will be held on July 2-3, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. We are happy to present to you the call for proposals. The conference is organized in collaboration with International Centre for STEM Education (ICSE), İbn Haldun University, and Hacettepe University as part of the STEMkey project. The theme of this year’s conference is “Promoting Key Competences in Education”.
We want to hear what you have to say! We are looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul in July.
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Empowering girls to unveil their digital, entrepreneurial and STEM potential
2022-07-11 - 2022-07-15
Outstanding female role models in STEM will empower 60 female students from the province of
Jaén (Spain) to show, enjoy and make the most of their STEM, digital and entrepreneurial potential.
These girls will live a real research experience guided by excellent mentors, leaders of cutting-edge
research projects related to socially relevant STEM topics at the University of Jaén. The girls will
make the research project their own and will learn about STEM in a totally applied and useful way
while discovering the personal and professional career paths of their mentors. The female role
model will be also represented by lecturers and speakers organizing workshops focusing on digital
skills to solve scientific problems. On the other hand, this Summer Camp has the purpose of sowing
entrepreneurial thinking in girls, thus they will be challenged to design an entrepreneurial proposal
that they will outline with the help of successful entrepreneur women.
The girls will show off their presentation and communication skills at the open-door Final GEM
Conference, where they will enjoy a thought-provoking talk by a renowned researcher in STEM.
They will present the experience lived during the week as well as a poster about their idea of
entrepreneurship making it clear that they can be the leaders of the future and, why not?, also of the
present.
Contact Persons: Marta Romero Ariza at mromero@ujaen.es and María Martín Peciña at mmpecina@ujaen.es
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“GirlsClub WIN Summer days: Three days of science and fun”
2022-07-12 - 2022-07-17
Are you in 3rd or 4th grade, have you participated in GirlsClub WIN and find math, computer science and physics interesting? Then sign up NOW for the new GirlsClub WIN Summer Days program. Because math, computer science and physics need more girls! Are you in for the WIN?
You don’t have to get high grades, motivation is more important to join!
WIN = Wiskunde – Informatica – Natuurkunde (Mathematics – Computer Science – Physics)
What will you do? You’ll be coming to Utrecht University for three days on 11-13 July. Every day you will work on mathematics, computer science and physics and meet (female) scientists and female students. Every day is different and we work on an art project. You get to work yourself, for example by doing an experiment or programming. And you get the chance to look around in places of the university where students normally do not come.
Finally, and perhaps most fun of all, you will get to know 29 other WIN`ers who, like you, are enthusiastic about mathematics, computer science and physics! Together you will follow the program of the Summer Days, get to know each other better and discover the university together.

Contact Person: Vincent Jonker at v.jonker@uu.nl
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„Can You Escape?“
2022-07-20 08:00 - 2022-07-26 14:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Freiburg, Germany
Maybe you have heard about escape rooms and wondered, what is that all about? Maybe you have already visited an escape room with your family or friends or cracked the right code for an online escape room? Escape rooms are fun, escape rooms are challenging and escape rooms can teach you a thing or two. If you take part in the summer school this year,, you can find out, how to develop one entirely by yourself!
You will undertake a discovery road of escape room planning, design and printing, participate in activities that are embedded in real life situations. You will apply knowledge in different STEM areas and learn new concepts in a hands-on, collaborative and supporting environment. You will meet successful women who will share their experiences in choosing a career in STEM field: being a part of research on the use of 3D-printing, entrepreneurship with STEM-background.
Contact Person: Dita Kreuz at dita.kreuz@ph-freiburg.de
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Physics as You Do Not Know It
2022-07-25 - 2022-07-28
The summer camp ‘Physics as you do not know it’ aims at bringing new perspectives and strengthening positive attitudes towards physics among the girls. We consider the overarching topic of the FAJN 2022 ‘Optics’, to have a great potential to attract girls.
The light as a spectrum of colours and optical principles of sight and eye-disorders will be in the focus of the summer school. The optical principles and properties of colours will be studied simultaneously with principles of mixing colours in visual arts, including applied arts (fashion, design). Besides that, geometrical optics and its application in medicine, especially ophthalmology will be inquired. Participating girls will investigate the human eye as a lens and the impact of changes of the lens to eye-disorders.
During the summer school, the participating girls will become familiar also with photometric. They will investigate illumination and its impacts of ergonomics and therefore interior design and marketing.
Contact Person: Sona Ceretkova at sceretkova@ukf.sk
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ENSITE Summer School in Bulgaria, Varna, July 31th - August 11th 2022
2022-07-31 - 2022-08-12 | Varna, Bulgaria, Bulgaria
Dealing with environmental issues in science education – Deeping future science and maths teachers’ learning by teaching
Intensive programmes for higher education learners
Organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (IMI-BAS)
Venue: Bulgaria, Varna
Duration: 12 days
Objectives
The aim of this summer school is to provide future teachers with experience in teaching small groups of high school students with specific STEM interests and in introducing environmental SSI. It will allow participants to learn (gaining knowledge, skills and competences) but also to gain experiences in teaching. In addition, they will not only learn about teaching concepts but will be able to try them out in a realistic context. This will be achieved through inviting high-school students (from regional schools) to serve as test group.
Target groups:

Science and maths ITE students
PhD students in STEM fields
High school students interested in working on projects related to environmental socio-scientific concepts

All target groups learn about environmental SSI, future teachers gain knowledge on pedagogical concepts, widen their teaching scope and have the possibility to actively teach students and PhD students gain experience in both aspects and can elaborate on how gained knowledge might contribute to their research work.
Procedures and workflow
The summer school will be set up following a format that has been refined during the last two decades in the annual summer school of the IMI High School Students, subsidiary of IMI-BAS. The experience of IMI-BAS has shown that future teachers like to work with high school students and value the teaching experience. In turn, each future teacher will get support from experienced educators, who will oversee the process, provide useful advice and held seminars on relevant topics.
The event will start with several days of training for participants, where they will be introduced to our IOs. The HE students will then work individually or in small groups to design lessons introducing SSI research topics. The summer school will end up with the future teachers presenting their work by teaching high school students the lessons designed in the previous stage. Finally, participants and experienced educators will present and discuss their observations in a workshop, highlighting good practices and important challenges, along with suitable strategies for addressing them.
Venue
The summer school will be held at the Conference and Recreation Centre of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (also known as Creativity House of BAS) in Varna, Bulgaria, from July 31st to August 11th, 2022. Referred to as the marine capital of Bulgaria, Varna is the third-largest city in the country and the largest seaside resort on the Black Sea Coast. It is a major economic, social and cultural centre.
A social cultural programme tailored to enrich the experience of the participants will be provided. Half-day trips to sites of cultural and/or scientific importance will be included, as well as shorter visits to relevant exhibitions and museums.
The organisers will issue a certificate for each student and each future teacher, describing the scope of the activity and the attained learning outcome. Suitable assessment tools will be developed both for the students and the mentors. It is intended that participants will get 3 ECTS points.
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Empowering Girls
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-16
The University of Malta is organising a Girls4STEM Week between the 12th and 16th September 2022, aimed at female students who have finished Year 7. The girls will participate in teams in activities linked to real life problems in which they apply their knowledge of different STEM areas (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and learn new concepts in a hands-on, collaborative environment. The Girls4STEM Week will also include meeting and working with women involved in STEM-related careers. They will explore STEM through a variety of topics and applications. It is envisaged that through the various planned activities, students will become more aware of their own potential and increase their interest in studying, being involved and in pursuing careers in STEM, digital disciplines and entrepreneurship especially with regard to leadership positions.
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Hands-on workshop on co-creation
2022-09-20 10:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin)
within the series of OS together inspiration sessions on September 20th 2022 from 10.30-12.30 (CEST)
Hands-on workshop on co-creation, organised by the MOST project
The goal of this workshop is to experience how to engage different stakeholders in a collaborative work process. At the beginning, there will be a short input on the topic, followed by an introduction to a real-life scenario with subsequent role play in breakout rooms. In a plenary reflection session, our workshop team will link the participants’ experiences with hints for successful co-creation processes.
The workshop lasts two hours and has a very practical structure. All participants are invited to actively work through the content in the form of a role play in breakout rooms.
OStogether is an initiative of several H2020 projects on Open Schooling.
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1h4 Girls in STEM online Workshop “Organizing out of school STEM Activities for Girls”
2022-11-28 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
This workshop will provide you insights on experiences from summer schools for girls that were organized on common principles across Europe. These summer schools offered the participants the opportunity to enjoy STEM in an inclusive and supportive educational environment, working jointly on a variety of STEM projects.
What are the research-based starting points for organizing these summer camps, what are the pedagogical approaches, which activities work well to ignite interest in STEM?
Join the 1h4 Girls in STEM to find out.
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Multiplier Event: 21st Century Skills and STEM Education
2022-12-02 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Avenue, CY-2417 P.O. Box 24005,, Nicosia, Cyprus
This multiplier event is part of our international project STEMkey and will take place on December 2nd, 2022 from 5pm-8pm at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. It focuses on digital competencies in STEM education.
At the conference, the STEMKey project will be presented with an emphasis on digital competences within STEM education. In the second part of the conference, two workshops focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence in STEM subjects will take place. During these workshops, materials from our STEMKey project will be used.
For more information and the possibility to register, please click here.
Please note: The conference will be in Greek.
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5th MOST consortium meeting in Freiburg
2023-01-24 12:00 - 2023-01-26 14:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Freiburg, Germany
The MOST consortium meets again in Freiburg to discuss results of Open Schooling activities and prepare for the final MOST conference as part of the Educating the Educators conference in Leiden (NL) in May 2023.
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Diversity Sensitive Support for Vocational Orientation of Young Women
2023-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Women are still underrepresented in science and technology studies. Although choosing a career is considered to be a highly individual decision based on one’s own skills and competencies, it is actually very influenced by cultural context: female and working-class students seem to think more often than others that science is not for them.
In this online workshop, Prof. Dr. Silvija Markic will present in what ways vocational orientation measures could be designed to appeal to groups that are currently underrepresented in science.
Together we will learn about different strategies which are offered but also wished by the young women when it comes to their career aspiration. The workshop will be based on an online tool which helps young women to reflect on their own self-concept and abilities for career in natural sciences.
The workshop is for free and will be held online via Zoom. You will get the Zoomlink after your registration here: https://eveeno.com/130778430

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Prof. Dr. Silvija Markic is a professor for chemistry education at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany after a professorship at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg.
Her research interests include science teachers’ beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge, linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity in chemistry and science education, cooperative learning and alternative teaching methods as well as digitalization of teaching and learning at the tertiary level.

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ICSE Academy Annual Policy Committee Meeting
2023-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
In the ICSE Academy altogether around 100 higher education researchers, STEM initial teacher education (ITE) staff and continuous professional development (CPD) providers, educational policy makers, schools and pre- and in-service teachers from 13 European countries joined forces to improve Europe’s STEM teacher education and training. It develops, tests and practice-transfers professional development strategies for pre- and in-service STEM teachers with a focus on interdisciplinarity, collaboration, mobility, and a distinct European dimension. On the 9th of March 2023, policy makers from the ICSE Academy’s National Policy Committee support us to discuss latest strategies and systemic challenges to come up with a concept which is not only effective but also accessible and transferable across Europe to provide the best STEM teacher education & training. Interested?
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1h4Girls in STEM: "Critical Synthesis of Studies on Gender Matters in Science Education from 2014 until 2022"
2023-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
This talk will take place on April 28, 2023 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. CET; online.
Prof.Dr, Lucy Avraamidou will offer a critical synthesis of studies on gender matters in science education from 2014 until 2022. The talk is organized around 3 research areas:

understanding gender gaps and gender stereotypes in science,
gender performativity and identity-based approaches to gender explorations,
intersectional approaches and queer theories in science.

Join the event to find out about the existing knowledge and the gaps in the knowledge base as well as ideas for future research directions in science education with a focus on gender.

More information: 1h4Girls in STEM – A series of fee-free online events by GEMnet – Part V – ICSE – International Centre for Stem Education
Link to the registration: 1h4Girls in STEM “ CRITICAL SYNTHESIS OF STUDIES ON GENDER MATTERS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM 2014 UNTIL 2022.” (eveeno.com)
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Final MOST consortium meeting in Leiden, Netherlands
2023-05-09 09:00 - 2023-05-10 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Leiden, Netherlands
All MOST partners meet for the last time and just before the MOST final conference to take stock of the project as well as to celebrate the fruitful cooperation.
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Educating the Educators: STEM & Open Schooling for Sustainability Education
2023-05-11 - 2023-05-12 | Naturalis Museum, Netherlands, Darwinweg 2, Leiden, 2333, Netherlands
Educating the Educators (ETE) is an international conference series on professional development in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education that brings together teacher educators, policy makers, teachers and various other stakeholders related to STEM education.
ETE IV will focus on implementing and scaling up innovative teaching approaches in STEM education and in particular on open schooling initiatives with respect to environmental issues (such as waste reduction, energy reduction/transition, increasing electricity needs for clouds and bitcoins, etc.). The aim is to discuss different approaches with a rich variety of participants on ways of working for teachers and PD course leaders, the roles of teaching materials, and on structures needed for innovations in STEM education.

ETE IV features both traditional and innovative formats to benefit of gathering a circle of participants from research, practice and policy. Vivid exchange and collaborative work will be ensured by spaces for co-creation and for sharing ideas and results. Three prominent keynote speakers will provide rich introductions on the main theme of the conference:

Arjen Wals (Professor Transformative Learning for Socio-ecological Sustainability/Unesco Chair at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands)
Marta Romero Ariza (MOST-project & University of Jaén, Spain)
Katja Maaß (MOST-project & University of Education Freiburg, Germany)

Registration is now open!

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Policy Seminar on Opening Up School Education
2023-05-11 11:00 - 12:15 (Europe/Berlin) | Naturalis Museum, Netherlands, Darwinweg 2, Leiden, 2333, Netherlands
In order to discuss what teachers need to integrate participatory projects such as Open Schooling activities into the classroom on a regular basis, the MOST project is organising a policy seminar on the topic Opening up school education: Ways to support schools on their path to institutional change. The main aims of this policy seminar are

Illuminate the importance of opening up school education and present examples of best practices.
Discuss and reflect how this promising approach can be integrated in the day-to-day teaching.
Discuss what schools and their teachers need to start institutional change and transform into an open school.

Introduction speeches will be held by Agueda Gras-Velazquez from the European Schooling Network (EUN) and Tobias Feitkenhauer from the Initiative “Schule im Aufbruch (school on the move),” Germany. We look forward to a lively exchange in the subsequent world café with invited representatives from policy and research from across Europe as well as with members of the European Open Schooling network.

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STEMkey Summer School
2023-06-26 08:00 - 2023-07-01 15:00 (Europe/Lisbon) | Lisbon
How to support STEM knowledge, skills and attitudes with an interdisciplinary approach
This June, students from different European countries come together to participate in our STEMkey summer school.
Core of STEM education at school traditionally is the delivery of fundamental subject knowledge like functions, human anatomy, and chemical reactions. Learners’ skills to apply gained knowledge and attitudes to set it in context with their life and societal decision-making processes have not been sufficiently nurtured likewise.
This will change!
The STEMkey summer school offers the opportunity to learn about integrated STEM approaches which not only transfer subject knowledge of various maths, science, technology and engineering topics, but also allows the development of skills and attitudes. A special feature is the focus on 21st-century skills: Critical-Thinking, Creativity and Problem-Solving.
The event involves workshops on different STEM subject topics and will be held by an international team of renowned lecturers from 8 countries!

STEMkey innovates your STEM lessons through an interdisciplinary competence-based approach, and supports you to support your students to develop the STEM competences they need for today and tomorrow.

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Final STEMkey Consortium Meeting in Lisbon
2023-06-29 - 2023-06-30 | Lisbon
All partners from the STEMkey project consortium will meet for their final event. Interested in interdisciplinary STEM teaching and learning? Want to be able to support your students to become creative critical thinkers with high problem-solving skills? Then watch out for further news!
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ICSE Academy Summer School in Utrecht, Netherlands
2023-08-21 - 2023-08-25 | Utrecht, the Netherlands
As part of the ICSE Academy, a summer school for pre-service and in-service STEM teachers will be held August 21-25 in Utrecht.
Topics will include

inquiry-based learning and interdisciplinarity,
cultural diversity and inclusion,
connections to sustainable development goals (SDGs),
and the use and impact of technology on STEM education.

The summer school offers a blend of lectures, seminars and workshops on educational research and development in the fields of primary, secondary and teacher education.
More information can be found here: https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/science/mathematics-and-science-stem-education
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ESERA 2023
2023-08-28 - 2023-09-01
The 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA 2023) symposium, will take place in Cappadocia, Turkey 28 August – 1 September 2023. This years’ theme is “Connecting Science Education with Cultural Heritage“.
The 3C4Life project team will organize a policy seminar for researchers, teachers and policy makers. The title of our seminar is “Challenges and opportunities of STEM education – Bridging Science, Practice and Policy in Europe”. In this seminar, we will discuss career possibilities, collaborative practices and competence development prospects. We invite everyone interested in this symposium to our session in Cappadocia, also known as ‘the land of beautiful horses’, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
More information on the seminar will follow.
More about ESERA: www.esera2023.net
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ICSE Science Factory presented at ESERA 2023
2023-08-29 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Istanbul)
The 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA 2023) took place in Cappadocia, Turkey 28 August – 1 September 2023. This year’s theme is “Connecting Science Education with Cultural Heritage“.
The ICSE Science Factory presented a poster at the 15th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA 2023).
More about ESERA: www.esera2023.net

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Introduction Event to European Workshop Series Cluster 1 "Trends in STEM Education"
2023-10-03 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Online workshop series of the ICSE Academy project for teachers and students.
Cluster 1 “Trends in STEM education: inquiry-based transdisciplinary approaches, sustainability and socio-scientific issues”
Topic today: Local Introduction to the workshop series
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"Inquiry-based STEM learning" - European Workshop Series Cluster 1 "Trends in STEM Education"
2023-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Online workshop series of the ICSE Academy project for teachers and students.
Cluser 1 “Trends in STEM education: inquiry-based transdisciplinary approaches, sustainability and socio-scientific issues”
Topic today: Inquiry-based STEM learning
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Integrated STEM - European Workshop Series Cluster 1 "Trends in STEM Education"
2023-10-17 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Online workshop series of the ICSE Academy project for teachers and students.
Cluster 1 “Trends in STEM education: inquiry-based transdisciplinary approaches, sustainability and socio-scientific issues”
Topic today: Integrated STEM
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Sustainability STEM Education and Socio-Scientific Issues - European Workshop Series Cluster 1 "Trends in STEM Education"
2023-10-24 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Online workshop series of the ICSE Academy project for teachers and students.
Cluster 1 “Trends in STEM education: inquiry-based transdisciplinary approaches, sustainability and socio-scientific issues”
Topic today: Sustainability STEM Education and Socio-Scientific Issues
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Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education - European Workshop Series Cluster 2 "Diversity and Inclusion"
2023-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Online workshop series of the ICSE Academy project for teachers and students.
Cluster 2 “Diversity and Inclusion”
Topic today: Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education
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Analysing and Design STEM Tasks for Diversity and Inclusion - European Workshop Series Cluster 2 "Diversity and Inclusion"
2023-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
ICSE Academy project is piloting online workshop series for teachers and teacher students.
Cluster 2 “Diversity and Inclusion”
Topic today: Analysing and Design STEM Tasks for Diversity and Inclusion
In this session we build on insights from the previous session and focus on various dimensions of diversity. Participants become familiar with (re)design strategies for selecting & developing tasks and adapting them to their context. We will discuss various formats of tasks, pedagogical approaches and relations with role models. Participants prepare an example activity for try-out including a lesson plan and expectations with respect to inclusion/diversity.
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Analysing Inclusive Classroom Practices - European Workshop Series Cluster 2 "Diversity and Inclusion"
2023-11-14 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
ICSE Academy project is piloting online workshop series for teachers and teacher students.
Cluster 2 “Diversity and Inclusion”
Topic today: Analysing Inclusive Classroom Practices (based upon try-outs)
During this session the teachers are expected to inquire and reflect on their enacted lessons using theoretical constructs and tools coming from research on inclusive classroom practices. Through this process, the session aims to support teachers to become aware of knowledge and strategies to implement and evaluate inclusive STEM lessons as well as of the affordances, constraints and challenges of such lessons. Finally, directions will be provided for future practices, and participants will be asked to indicate two key messages from this cluster that they would like to keep practicing in their classroom.
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