Kildare Education Support Centre (KESC), Ireland, is engaged in ongoing teacher professional development activities as well facilitating the ATS STEM pilot implementation in 14 schools, both primary and post-primary. The Centre has been offering professional development opportunities at a regional, national and international level since...
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How can we teach for sustainability? How can we find suitable ideas for lessons relating to different subjects? Can we use role-play to access normative issues about sustainability? A large number of primary- and secondary school teachers gathered in a digital workshop about sustainability in november...
Project activities from July 2020 Meetings Regular partner monthly on-line meetings (July 17th, September 3rd and November 5th) WPs’ essential partner workshops and expert group meetings on weekly or monthly base 4th face-to-face partner meeting planned in Belgium organized in a virtual environment as series of...
October 15, 2020 - Selection of 11 schools (15 classes) to participate in the ATS STEM piloting October 23, 2020 - Online kick-off meeting with the participating teachers October 26, 2020 - The ATS STEM mentors started scheduling meetings with the ATS STEM school...
We have recently started our project “Inside and outside adventures” with our students in 4th grade (9–10 year-olds) at Runstensskolan in Haninge, Sweden. This cross over project is integrating technology, science, sports, slöjd and arts. Slöjd, comparable with “Design and technology”, is a typical Swedish...
During the first half of October, a regular ATS STEM meeting for all project partners took place. Although planned to be held in Antwerp, Belgium, the covid-19 pandemic hindered our mobility and strapped us to our seats in front of the computer screen; we were...
Ready for the winter semester 2020 with Covid19 precautions? A few students are allowed or want to go to campus, other students are part of the risk group or in quarantine. With the "dual" teaching format, the aim is to make classroom instruction inclusive: Students...
In a parallel universe, the Assessment of Transversal Skills would have been in beautiful Belgium this morning. Instead we continued the work of the ATS STEM project today online and will meet again over the next two weeks as part of a series of all...