
“STEM and LEGO Education SPIKE Essential: Teacher’s Guide”
The purpose of this KA1 Erasmus+ Course is:To show how to cultivate the STEM competences from two aspects: the design principles of the STEM curricula content and the implementation strategies of STEM teaching; To explain LEGO Education SPIKE Essential as a part of the LEGO Learning System, preparing students with STE(A)M knowledge and 21st-century skills they’ll build in school and beyond.
Description
Programme of training activities day-by-day:
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:
Ø What should STEM education accomplish? STEM –Goals and Objectives; The Importance of STEM Education in 21st Century world;
Ø What is Lego Education? LEGO Education solutions; Building A Better Learning Model with LEGO Education
TUESDAY (Day 2)
Module 2:
Ø STEM Teaching Tools;
Ø ICT IN STEM EDUCATION: Technology driven 21st century work place – creating rapid shifts in demands for knowledge and skills;
Ø Robotics Curriculum and STEM Teacher Training;
Ø 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:
Ø The Link between Creativity, STEM and Interdisciplinary Approach;
Ø STEM and STEAM;
Ø LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Lesson Plans in Classroom Practice
FRIDAY (Day 5)
Module 5:
Ø Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson;
Ø LEGO Education for increasing the students’ ability to apply STE(A)M knowledge and transferable STE(A)M practices to solving real-world problems;
Ø Presentations in groups of their STEM/STEAM Lesson
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: Delivery of Certificates of Attendance
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; 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, information literacy competences, and attitudes and accountability; Systematically building a framework for STEM curriculum content from two perspectives: cross-disciplinary content knowledge integration around core ideas from a horizontal perspective and content articulation based on learning progression from a vertical perspective; Acquiring basic concepts of LEGO® Learning System; Understanding how to teach STEM using LEGO Education Spike Essential tools; Feeling confident using the hardware, software and curriculum resources; Taking in the LEGO Education approach to learning; Gaining ideas for how to facilitate encouraging hands-on lessons, supporting your students to build and improve 21st century skills; Developing effective techniques to implement LEGO Education Spike Essential in the classroom, including lesson planning and classroom management; Intentionally incorporating different subjects across an existing curriculum.
Methodology & assessment
Certification details
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance along with Europass Mobility.
Our certificates are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and so include the course's title, 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+ requirements such as Learning Agreement, Quality Commitment and Europass mobility.
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:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalOther
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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