Since the 2012-2013 academic year, the Departament d'Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya started an upgrade program about Science, Technology and Mathematics (CTM) for secondary school STEM teachers with the collaboration of the Instituts de Ciències de l'Educació (ICE) of several Universities (UPC,UdG,UdL, URV), in order to foster science, technology and mathematical teachers' updated knowledge and didactics with the overall objective of facilitating the transfer of this training to their classrooms and to improve both their teaching and the development of students' competences and learning outcomes.

1. 26/04/2016
Training program for
secondary school science,
technology and mathematics
teachers
WFATE Fourth Biennial International Conference.
Innovation in Teacher Education within a Global Context
Sergi Muria and Julio Pérez

2. Contents
 Introduction - CESIRE
 CTM training program
 Partners and aims
 General overview
 Teachers response
 Classroom materials
 Students impact
 Challenges and final considerations

3. CESIRE
Center of Support to Innovation and Educational Research
16 primary and secondary teachers
Curricular areas
Science
Mathematics
Languages
Social sciences
Technology
Current projects
Creative technologies
3D printing
Language in subjects
CTM training program
Nanotechnology
Bioclimatic toolkit
...

4. CTM training program
4
Introducing research methodology in the classroom
Promoting working groups of teachers to design and test
interdisciplinary (STEM) classroom activities in order to improve
educational practice
GLOBAL
AIMS
Institutes of Sciences of Education (ICE) R&I Institutions and Centers
Partners & aims

5. 1st year main goals
Linking schools to STEM R&I institutions
Promoting the use of research
methodologies in the school
Providing ideas and resources to
improve SciTech communication.
2nd year main goals
Promoting methodological changes
Encouraging cooperation among STEM
teachers to design, test and disseminate
classroom materials
40 h blended learning
- plenary sessions
- activities from R&I institutions
- online individual tasks
- guidance from ICEs & training unit of
Dept Ensenyament
40 h blended learning
- plenary sessions
- group-working sessions
- online group tasks
- guidance from CESIRE STEM staff
General overview
Support from R&I institutions to students in their curricular research projects
Voluntary attendance to activities from R&I
institutions
CTM training program

6. 90
155 153
84
0
29 33
25
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
1st year 2nd year
481
Teachers response
CTM training program

7. Classroom materials
CTM training program

8. 14
20 20 21
22
60 58
70
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Research institutions Students
210
Students impact: support in curricular research projects
CTM training program

9. Promoting collaborative work among STEM secondary
school teachers
Increasing and strengthening the relationship between
secondary STEM teachers and R&I institutions.
Getting an effective dissemination of classroom materials
Encouraging peer review publishing
Challenges and final considerations

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