
“STEM and LEGO Education SPIKE Essential: Teacher’s Guide”
The purpose of this KA1 Erasmus+ Course is: To facilitate and ensure the adoption of innovative teaching – learning practices; To build 21st century success skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity/innovation; To show how to cultivate the STEM competences from two aspects: the design principles of the STEM curricula content and the implementati
Description
MONDAY (Day 1)
Module 1: Welcome and registration
Ice-breaking and Warm Ups. Team-building session
School education in Denmark: strengths and challenges
Introduction: STEM and LEGO Spike Education:
What should STEM education accomplish? STEM –Goals and Objectives; The Importance of STEM Education in 21st Century world;
What is Lego Education? LEGO Education solutions; Building A Better Learning Model with LEGO Education
TUESDAY (Day 2)
Module 2:
STEM Teaching Tools;
ICT IN STEM EDUCATION: Technology driven 21st century work place – creating rapid shifts in demands for knowledge and skills;
Robotics Curriculum and STEM Teacher Training;
Getting to know LEGO® Learning System: Interconnected Solutions that work Seamlessly Together; A System of Integrated and Scalable Components
WEDNESDAY (Day 3)
Module 3: Outdoor activity with a training task: “Treasure Hunt” – In the shoes of our learners
THURSDAY (Day 4)
Module 4:
The Link between Creativity, STEM and Interdisciplinary Approach;
STEM and STEAM;
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Lesson Plans in Classroom Practice
FRIDAY (Day 5)
Module 5:
Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson;
LEGO Education for increasing the students’ ability to apply STE(A)M knowledge and transferable STE(A)M practices to solving real-world problems
SATURDAY (Day 6)
Module 6: Group work – overview of the outcomes
Sightseeing/ Cultural Activities according the intercultural competences, stated in Europass Mobility
SUNDAY (Day 7)
Module 7: Course conclusion: Feedback, course evaluation and dissemination focus
Learning objectives
Provide knowledge and skills with a positive attitude towards innovations, feel the necessity for self-education, and adopt a student centered teaching approach; Develop teaching professional skills, trying to be "an effective model of competence"; Learning to learn competence; Integrate 21st century skills and content in instruction; Using a variety of research-verified approaches to improve teaching and learning; Apply Project – Based Learning as student-centered teaching method, encourage learning through spontaneous activities and solving meaningful real-world tasks; Balancing direct instruction strategically with project-oriented teaching methods; Develop relevant, high-level skills such as creativity, critical thinking, metacognition and other key competences through innovative teaching methods, enhance good quality of mainstream education; Enable teachers to review and develop teaching methods so as to improve both the content of their classes/ lessons and their method of delivery as teachers; Learn to motivate, guide and effectively assess to reduce low achievement in basic competences, promote peer exchange and active participation within the education; Revise and develop personal and professional competences, build confidence in promoting innovative and active pedagogies that are responsive to social and cultural diversity; Developing a set of thinking, reasoning, teamwork, investigative, and creative skills that students can use in all areas of their lives through incorporating different subjects across an existing curriculum; Expanding teaching repertoire of pedagogical skills to meet 21st century education novel needs: Developing scientific and technological understanding, required by personal and societal decisions in the 21st century; Providing standards-based structured inquiry-based and real-world problem-based learning, connecting all four of the STEM subjects; Developing STEM competences: scientific concepts, scientific thinking, inquiry practice.
Methodology & assessment
Certification details
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance along with Europass Mobility Certificate.
Our certificates are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and so include the title of the course and short description of its learning outcomes (if requested), dates, venue, the name of the course provider and the course director, number of training hours.
We support participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:560Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)Other
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalOther
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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