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EUROPEAN
IN-SERVICE TRAINING COURSE FOR TEACHERS AND MUSEUM EDUCATORS
Fifth edition of the course
7-14 November 2010
Deutsches Museum Munich, Germany
PRE-REGISTRATION
FORM
The
European In-service
training course
School and science
museum: cooperation
for improving
teaching, learning
and discover
is aimed at
primary school
teachers and
at museum educators.
The objective of the course is the development
of knowledge and competences relative to science education
through the use of museums as educational resource. After
the great success of the first three editions, the fourth
edition of the course takes place again at the Deutsches Museum
of Munich from 7 to 14 November 2010.
The
course will
be held by a
group of experts
from Belgium,
France, Germany,
Hungary Italy
and Spain specialising
in museum education,
science education,
teacher training,
research and
evaluation,
new technologies,
etc.
The course consists
of lectures,
round tables,
museum visits,
interactive
workshops and
practical activities.
The language
of the course
will be English
but the materials
used will be
available in
different languages.
How
to participate
To the course can participate primary school teachers and museum
educators who are citizens of the countries-participants to
the Socrates
programme (now called Lifelong Learning 2007-2013). Both teachers and museum educators interested
have the right to apply for funding of the expenses
of the course through Comenius o Grundtvig grants.
The code of the course in the Comenius-Gruntvig database is: DE-2010-1033-001
The course is inserted in the catalogue
of the Socrates Comenius/Grundtvig.
The teachers and
museum educators
interested in
participating
can:
Find information
about the procedures
for applying at
the
websites of the
Socrates National
Agency
of
their own country;
Contact:
The course participation fee is 600 Euros
(cancellation fee 100 Euros).
The maximum Comenius/Grundtvig grant given
by the NAs is 1500 Euros, amount that can be used for covering
the course fees, travel, accommodation and subsistence.
The application deadline for these grants
is the 30th of April 2010.
The course is one of the outputs of the European project SMEC, which was funded by the Socrates programme of the European Union from 2001 to 2005. The main aim of the project was to encourage the use of the museum as educational resource for the teaching and learning of science in primary schools, and to contribute to the training of teachers for the development of competence and expertise in using museums. The course is now in its fourth edition. It aims to develop the knowledge and competences relative to science education through the use of museums as an educational resource. It is open to museum educators and primary school teachers, headteachers, advisory teachers and teacher trainers. The course is held by an international group of experts from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain specialising in museum education, science education, teacher training, research and evaluation, new technologies. The structure of the course consists of lectures, round tables, museum visits, interactive workshops and practical activities. The language of the course is English but the materials used will be available in different
languages. The course will be held inside the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where the collections, staff and educational programmes will be used as an integral part of the course activities.
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