Fibonacci Euro­pean Training Sessions

Dedi­cated to Inquiry-Based Science and Math­e­matics Educa­tion (IBSME).

In the frame of this project and as the result of the work and exchanges between the Fibonacci part­ners, 5 Euro­pean training sessions are organ­ised from September 2011 to March 2012 on the following topics:

10 –12 October 2011 Helsinki, Finland
Schools are more and more open to using their external envi­ron­ment to teach science. The main issue in this Euro­pean Training Session will be to describe how to bridge the gap between informal and formal educa­tion. The Chal­lenger addressed will be how to include IBSME-approach.

Contact: Hannu Salmi hannu.​salmi@​helsinki.​fi, Arja Kaasinen arja.​kaasinen@​helsinki.​fi
Down­load TS2 Brochure here. Online regis­tra­tion form will be avail­able from August 2011 on here.

15 – 17 February 2012 Bayreuth, Germany
The seminar will cover mani­fold aspects of inquiry based math­e­matics educa­tion, taking into account the following aims:

• less knowl­edge acqui­si­tion, more problem-solving instruc­tion,
• less orien­ta­tion towards calcu­la­tion, more focus on compre­hen­sion,
• learning math­e­matics in context,
• atten­tion not only to results but also to the learning strate­gies and learning processes.

Contact: Dagmar Raab dagmar.​raab@​uni-bayreuth.​de, Thomas Stiegler thomas.​stiegler@​uni-bayreuth.​de.
Online regis­tra­tion and programme here.

These training sessions have been conceived taking into account the exper­tise of all Fibonacci centres and they cover all key aspects of IBSME. They will enable partic­i­pants to exchange exper­tise on the topics and to converge towards common approaches and method­olo­gies.

Each session is planned over 3 days, for sixty (60) partic­i­pants from all E.U coun­tries. The target group is mainly science and math­e­matics educa­tors and teacher trainers, project coor­di­na­tors, etc. A special atten­tion will be paid to the persons with the capacity to imple­ment and dissem­i­nate IBSME in their respec­tive coun­tries or abroad. Partic­i­pants can be internal or external to the Fibonacci project. All sessions will be deliv­ered in English. Partic­i­pants must there­fore be profi­cient in this language. A cata­logue containing the descrip­tion of each course and the main infor­ma­tion on the venue, contents, regis­tra­tion modal­i­ties and contacts is avail­able on this website . The costs of stay and trans­port will have to be covered by each partic­i­pant. No fee will be requested for regis­tra­tion. A full programme will be soon avail­able for each of the 5 sessions.

Anne Lejeune
ENS / La main à la pâte
Anne.​lejeune@​fondation-lamap.​org
1 rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge, France

For details on each Euro­pean training session, please contact the person in charge of the organ­ising centre.