AESTIT
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Affordable and Efficient Science Teacher In-service Training
a Comenius 2.1 project supported by the European Commission

Outcomes.  Outcomes of AESTIT are Seminars and Lectures or Presentations (see the list here), Publications, and Other Outcomes. See more details about AESTIT here.   For inquiries please click here

  

Seminars. The main objective of AESTIT is the development and the delivery of training seminars in Science and Technology. Although many of the seminars may be attended by any person interested in Science and Technology, the seminars address mainly the in-service and the pre-service teachers in primary and secondary education. Depending on the specific seminar and relevant requests, seminars may be delivered:

  • by face to face traditional training (a minimum number of trainees may be required),
  • adapted in a language other than the one depicted here.
  • by methods of Distant Education using INTERNET.

    The seminars developed may be adapted and delivered as:

  • Long term informal training courses in which specific topics, mainly from the school curricula, are studied in detail. Long term seminars are designed for 30 to 40 teaching hours. Their contents include short presentations by the trainer(s) while most of the time is devoted to the trainees completing assigned tasks related to the topic under study.
  • Short term informal training courses focused on specific issues. These are designed for 3 to 10 teaching hours. Their contents include, usually, a presentation of 1 to 3 teaching hours and a project carried out by the trainees for the rest of the allocated time.
  • Lectures or Presentations of duration of up to 3 teaching hours, in which main points of an existing or under development training course are presented. Sometimes they are based on publications produced within the AESTIT project and, usually, they summarize the experience gained from the delivery of the training courses developed so far or explain the motivation and the objectives behind the development of the course.

    All seminars have been delivered and tested in at least one of the above ways - see the Events page for details. If you have any in inquiries click here while, in order to see a list of already developed seminars click here.

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       Seminars. (AESTIT - Outcomes)

    1. © Laboratory of Educational Robotics.   
      The "Laboratory of Educational Robotics" may be used in schools either as a formal teaching subject or as an educational environment for the cross-thematic or interdisciplinary teaching of issues from Science and Technology. It is a Laboratory based course, a more detailed adaptation of which has been also introduced as a full semester regular undergraduate course in the department for Primary teachers’ education of the University of Crete and is taught every other semester since 2006
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    2. © Science Hits 4 Kids.   
      A collection of demonstrations and simple experiments for primary school Science teaching.
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    3. © Safe handling of Electricity.   
      A training course appropriate for the Primary and Secondary school Science teaching.
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    4. © Dangerous Electricity.   
      A training course appropriate for the Primary and Secondary school Science teaching.
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    5. © Electricity for Primary Purposes.   
      A series of teaching means on Electricity appropriate for primary Science teaching.
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    6. © Key Competences.   
      A training course on the school objectives within the European Union.
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      • English  pdf.

    7. © Elementary Optics Hands-on Training Course.   
      A training course on elementary Optics.
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      • English       pdf.
      • Portuguese  pdf.

    8. © A Brief Introduction to Educational Robotics.   
      A training course on the basic principles of robotics.
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    9. © From the Earth to the Stars! (Uma viagem da Terra às Estrelas!).   
      A training course on Astronomy.
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    10. © Developments in Science Teaching.   
      A set of resources supporting the adaptation of training courses to the needs of the primary or the secondary school Science and Technology teacher on the forefront of Science and Technology teaching.
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    11. © Θέματα Διδακτικής στην Περιβαλλοντική Εκπαίδευση (Didactic Issues in Environmental Education).   
      A training course for an effective environmental education aiming not only to knowledge but also to the development of environmentally friendly attitudes and of problem solving skills.
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      • English  pdf1 (sample only).
      • Greek   pdf2.

    12. © Παρανοήσεις στις Φυσικές Επιστήμες (Misconceptions in Science).   
      A training course on common misconceptions in Science with suggestions on possible teaching approaches. This course uses data from a relevant degree dissertation work of a student from the Department for Primary Education of The University of Crete.
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    13. © Informatics in Science and Technology Teaching.   
      A training course on ways to use Informatics in an effective Science teaching.
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    14. © Θέματα Πειραματικής Διδασκαλίας Φυσικών Επιστημών (Issues in experimental Science Teaching).   
      A set of resources supporting the adaptation of training courses to the needs of the primary or the secondary school Science and Technology teacher addressing special issues of didactic approaches to include experiments in Primary or Secondary Science teaching.
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    Publications. (AESTIT - Outcomes)
    1. (pdf in Greek)  S. Anagnostakis, P. G. Michaelides,
      The perspectives of the "Laboratory for Educational Robotics" as an undergraduate course to Departments for Primary Education., (Η προοπτική του "Εργαστήριου Εκπαιδευτικής Ρομποτικής" σαν προπτυχιακό μάθημα σε φοιτητές Παιδαγωγικών Τμημάτων.)
      Paper presented at the 5th PanHellenic Conference with International Participation "Science and Society: Science in preschool education", University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 7 – 10 November 2008. 
       
    2. (pdf in Greek)  S. Anagnostakis, A. Margetousaki, P. G. Michaelides,
      The feasibility of a "Laboratory of Educational Robotics" in Schools, (Δυνατότητα Εργαστηρίου Εκπαιδευτικής Ρομποτικής στα Σχολεία)
      Paper presented at the 4th PanHellenic Conference for the Didactis of Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, 28 - 30 March 2008, proceedings pp. 243-253 (see full text here). 
       
    3. (pdf in Greek)  A. Margetousaki, S. Anagnostakis, P. G. Michaelides,
      Informal Learning in the context of a Laboratory of Educational Robotics, (Άτυπη μάθηση σε περιβάλλον εκπαιδευτικής ρομποτικής)
      Paper presented at the 4th PanHellenic Conference for the Didactis of Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, 28 - 30 March 2008, proceedings pp. 253-262 (see full text here). 
       
    4. Z. Esteves and M.F.M. Costa,
      Science Fairs as an Annual Students Project.
      Paper presented at the 4th Hands-on Science Conference, July 23-27, 2007 Universidade dos Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, proceedings pp. 132-135
       
    5. (pdf)  P. G. Michaelides,
      Informatics in Science and Technology Teaching.
      Invited paper presented at the 4th Hands-on Science Conference, July 23-27, 2007 Universidade dos Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, proceedings pp. 52-58  
       
    6. (pdf)  A. Margetousaki, P. G. Michaelides,
      A project for Affordable & Efficient Science Teacher In-service Training (AESTIT),
      Paper presented at the 5th Pan-Hellenic Conference with International Participation "Information and Communication Technologies in Education – Review and Perspectives" Thessaloniki, 5-8 October 2006, Greek Association of Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ETPE) and Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and University of Macedonia, proceedings pp. (see full text here).
       
    7. (pdf in Greek)  S. Anagnostakis, P. G. Michaelides,
      "Laboratory of Educational Robotics" - An undergraduate course in the Department for Primary Education, ("Εργαστήριο Εκπαιδευτικής Ρομποτικής" : Ένα προπτυχιακό μάθημα στο Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης)
      Paper presented in the 5th PanHellenic Conference "Didactics of Science and New Technologies in Education" University of Ioannina, Ioannina 15-18 March 2007, proceedings in web (see text (here). The conference was organized by the Greek Association for the Didactics of Science, and the Departments of Primary Education, of Physics and of Chemistry of the University of Ioannina.
       
    8. (pdf)  S. Anagnostakis, P. G. Michaelides,
      Results from an undergraduate test teaching course on Robotics to Primary Education Teacher - Students.
      Paper presented at the 4th Hands-on Science Conference, July 23-27, 2007 Universidade dos Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, proceedings pp. 3-9  
       
    9. (pdf)  A. Margetousaki, P. G. Michaelides,
      Affordable and Efficient Science Teacher In-Service Training,
      Paper presented at the HSci 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Hands-on Science, 4-9 September 2006, Braga, Portugal, proceedings published by University of Minho pp. 105-111.
       
    10. (pdf)  S. Anagnostakis, P. G. Michaelides,
      "Laboratory of Educational Robotics" - An undergraduate course for Primary Education Teacher - Students,
      Paper presented at the HSci 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Hands-on Science, 4-9 September 2006, Braga, Portugal, proceedings published by University of Minho pp. 329-335.
       
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