The TEMI project aims to train and support teachers to transform science and mathematics classroom practices through inquiry-based teaching methods. The project involves 13 partners across 11 European countries and runs from February 2013 to July 2016. The key concept of TEMI is to use "mysteries" - phenomena that provoke curiosity and questions in students - within the 5E instructional model to gradually release responsibility for learning from teachers to students and enhance learning through showmanship.

1. TEMI: Teaching Enquiry with
Mysteries Incorporated
Introduction
Peter McOwan, QMUL
Dorothee Loziak, QMUL
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2. 13 Partners, 11 countries
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3. Partners
Teacher training centres
• Charles University
• Buskerud and Vestfold University
College
• Leiden University
• Sheffield Hallam University
• University of Milan
• University of Bremen
• University of Limerick
• University of Vienna
• Weizmann Institute of Science
Coodinator
• Queen Mary University of London
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Companies
• Sterrenlab
(Communication/dissemination)
• CNOTINFOR (website and app)

4. The call
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Supporting and coordinating actions on innovative
methods in science education:
Teacher training on enquiry based teaching methods on
a large scale in Europe
• 42 months
• Starting 1 February 2013
• End July 2016
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5. TEMI concept
MYSTERIES
To train and support
teachers to transform
science and mathematics
classroom practices
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6. 4 Innovations
• Mysteries
• 5E cycle
• Showmanship
• Gradual release of responsibility
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7. Within the TEMI project we define a mystery as:
• a phenomenon or event that provokes the
perception of suspense and wonder in the
learner to initiate an emotionally-laden “want
to know”-feeling which leads to a raise in
curiosity and which initiates the posing of
questions to be answered by inquiry and
problem-solving activities.
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