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You can then participate in more communities of practice, online chats and many more inGenious events.

You will have access to the inGenious repository of practice that you can conduct in class.
Strengths and constraints of different national STEM curricula
 

This Community of practice will be open from 4 March to 12 April.

The aim of this community of practice is to discuss national curricula in STEM, their differences and similarities across Europe, and their flexibility. It will be interesting to discuss the main STEM contents/topics/concepts that have to be taught in the different countries due to the national curriculum. There will be space for teachers to share their opinion on the efficiency of their national curriculum and to suggest possible improvements. 

Topics like Nanotechnology and whether national curricula suggest/allow the use of “Remote labs” in STEM lessons will receive particular focus during this CoP. Experts working on projects related to Nanotechnology and Remote labs will be available to answer questions and share their knowledge about the topic. 

The last topic of the CoP invites teachers to suggest ideas for a “perfect” European inGenious curriculum. They can use their imagination, creativity and experience to come up with a curriculum that encourages students to study STEM subjects while taking into account various important issues such as skills that need to be taught, learner types, didactics, etc. Suggestions should of course be feasible and realistic in order to create something useful and inspirational.

In this CoP, teachers will be able to act as experts of their own national curriculum, as they all surely know their national curriculum very well. Alongside, several experts from Ministries of Education will share their point of view on national curricula.  

 

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:

 1. Different national curricula

2. Flexibility of curricula

3. Nanotechnology & Remote labs

4. The perfect inGenious curriculum

 

 

The Experts
 

Barbora Grečnerová (Centre for International Services, Czech Republic) has seven years’ experience of dealing with the management of EU funded projects across a variety of sectors. She is currently responsible for Czech eTwinning National Support Services and variety of other projects within ICT and MST (iTEC, inGenious, SPICE). She is also a member of the EUN Steering Committee and LRE Sub-Committee. 

 

 

 

 

José Moura Carvalho is the Coordinator of the Unit of Educational Resources and Technology at the Directorate-General for Education Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal. He holds a degree in English and German and a Masters in Educational Psychology. He is the National Coordinator of the Living Schools Lab project. He is a teacher trainer in the educational use of ICT. He has been involved in the educational use of ICT for over 20 years.

 

 

Dulce Pinto holds a degree in the teaching of Biology and an MA in Education, specialising in Guidance and Supervision of Professional Practice. Currently she is Project Coordinator at the Unit of Educational Resources and Technology, Directorate-General for Education (DGE), Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal. She is the National Pedagogical Coordinator of the iTEC project and also coordinates inGenious at DGE.

 

 

 

Evita Tasiopoulou works at European Schoolnet as Science Projects Coordinator.  She has worked on UniSchooLabS, which provided remote access to science laboratories for primary and secondary schools through internet-based services and she continues her trip on the use of on-line laboratories with Go-Lab, which aims to create a federation of laboratories to be made available to teachers. She is also working on Global-excursion and inGenious where she is involved on the pedagogical background while coordinating the development of technical infrastructure plus the materialization of school pilots. Evita is particularly involved in projects linked to School Pilot activities and the provision of remote laboratories to schools. She also has a strong interest on Primary education and the promotion of Science education. Since 2010, Evita is also EUN’s Business Intelligence manager and she is working on the development of a solution that will facilitate the internal organisation and use of school related information.Originally from Greece, Evita holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, as well as a Professional Degree in Management from the Open University. She has completed a 2-year course on Child Psychology and she is always on the lookout for new learning opportunities.

Maïté Debry started to work for European Schoolnet in September 2007. She is Project Coordinator as part of the Science team. As part of her responsibilities she is managing the activities linked to schools outreach in nanOpinion, a project that monitors public opinions on nanotechnology, build an online portal and publish articles on nanotechnology in main online and print media in four countries. She was also coordinating the outreach to schools for the Nanoyou project, a European project (FP7) aiming to communicate Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to young people and to raise awareness on the Ethical, Legal and Social aspects of this discipline. Originally from Belgium, Maïté holds a Master’s Degree in Political Sciences with a specialisation in International Relations from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies specialised in Development Programmes and Projects from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL).

 

Gina Mihai holds a PhD Degree in Chemistry from 2010, University of Al.I. Cuza, Romania and has been working at EUN since October 2011 as project administrator for science projects linked to School Pilot activities and the provision of remote laboratories to schools. She has worked on UniSchooLabS, which provided remote access to science laboratories for primary and secondary schools through internet-based services. Gina is currently working on Go-Lab which aims to create a federation of laboratories to be made available to teachers and Global-excursion where she is involved on the pedagogical background.

 

 

 

Xenia Lauritsen, holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from 2010, Roskilde University, Denmark and has been working at EUN since April 2012 as project administrator for science projects related to Biotechnology and nanotechnology. Xenia is currently working on the nanOpinion project where she has contributed to identifying how topics on nanotechnology can best be integrated in the different school systems of Europe. Before joining EUN, Xenia worked with evaluations of EU’s Research and ICT funding programmes. Xenia is both Danish and Mexican.