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Improving communication for innovative science and maths education projects
 

This Community of practice aims to discuss, analyse and find out how to better communicate results of science education projects to teachers. We will approach this problematic dividing the projects in four distinct types: science education projects supported by industry, projects funded by European Union funds and academic initiatives. We will finally look at projects organised at the level of schools by teachers and school professionals. This Community of Practice is a collaboration between inGenious and the European project DESIRE (Disseminating Educational Science, Innovation and Research in Europe ), that develops models of diffusion and exploitation to ease the spreading of science education projects results to teachers. 

The objective of this 6 weeks Community of Practice will thus be to contribute to the improvement of the dissemination and exploitation of results from science education projects existing in Europe that have plenty of valuable outcomes but do not always reach their target to the greatest possible advantage. 

The results we will discuss include a large amount of different outcomes: repository of resources and practices,  teaching materials/tools/environments, learning materials for students, case studies, script for teachers, videos, network of people, literature reviews, findings from empirical research studies, guidelines, recommendation of good practices, teacher training material, evaluation tools. 

 

With this CoP, our aim is thus:

• To get feedback from teachers and experts to know how to communicate the results of EU and private science education projects to teachers. 

• To discuss how to make sure teachers are aware of the results of science education projects? 

• To see how communication from science education projects to teachers can be improved?

• To debate how to better disseminate research results to teachers

 

The 4 topics of this CoP are:

• Industry projects - communications and collaboration

• European projects: Dissemination strategies and exploitation of results

• School projects: Communications within the school and social media

• Research / academic projects: dissemination to and use by teachers

 
The Experts
 


Marisa Hernandez is a research assistant and member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (CRECIM) of the  Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Spain. She has a BA in Physics and PhD in Science Education.

With a staff of 9 full-time employees, 5 part-time secondary school teachers, and 3 PhD students, CRECIM manages a number of national projects and local initiatives on science and technology education. They cover a broad range of topics, from digital classrooms in science lessons (ADIGIC) and technology enhanced science learning for children in hospital (TEACH); to school-university (REVIR) and school-industry (Prat de la Riba) collaboration.

On the European scene, CRECIM has been actively involved in the management of several EU-funded projects: STISS, IKUITSE, Materials Science, TRACES and inGenious.

 

 

 


Dr Irina Kudenko MA, PhD, works as an in-house researcher and evaluation data analyst in Myscience.co Ltd, one of the UK leading providers of support and resources for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education. Irina has the responsibility for managing research and evaluation projects in science education with a special focus on teacher professional development. She is also Myscience liaison with external researchers and is responsible for effective communication of research and evaluation findings to wider audiences, including academics and practitioners of science education. 

Established in 2004, Myscience manages the national network of nine regional and one national Science Learning Centres, the National STEM Centre and other programmes supporting STEM education in primary, secondary and high education. The network of Science Learning Centres provides excellent professional development for STEM teachers. The National STEM Centre houses the UK’s largest collection of 20,000 physical and 6,000 on-line STEM teaching and learning resources.

In the ECB-InGenious project Irina manages internal evaluation of piloted practices and teacher activities and is the person behind the questionnaires that participating teachers and pupils need to fill in.