The project is contextualized in the Faculties of Educational Sciences and in particular in the official studies of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education. With the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, ITE in Europe converges in the incorporation of a significant period of school teaching practice (in-school placement) that in some cases constitutes up to 25% of the prospective teacher training. EU Commission, in its report “The Teaching Profession in Europe” (European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice,2015), highlights “real classroom experience” as one of the 3 key elements of ITE, emphasizing the importance of “in-school placement” at the same level of the “academic knowledge of their subject” and “teaching approaches”. A proper teacher training requires to be trained in these three elements. Surprisingly, academic policies do not generally value these three equally, and frequently, in-school placement is less valued, understanding that prospective teachers learn these skills naturally just by being placed in a school. This way, key processes to promote reflective learning of the teaching profession, such as collaboration, interaction, monitoring, and counselling processes are neglected.
In-school placement co-participated by university lecturers and non-university teaching tutors has a strategic character in the training of prospective teachers and sets a favourable scenario to promote the interaction between theory and practice, exercise professional skills and experiment proposals for educational innovation monitored by experienced professionals and analysed by educational researchers. However, the experience and the studies carried out on teaching practice show that, despite being a strategic scenario for student teachers training, the training experience can be improved, and this improvement can be implemented through the application of resources and services, delivered through e-learning. We therefore intend to address the needs for improving the training of student teachers during the implementation of in-school placements and therefore develop methodologies and e-learning solutions that have a real impact on the following aspects that clearly need to be improved:
• Dynamics to coordinate work between university and non-university teachers who supervise and accompany the student during the in-school placement period.
• Individualized follow-up of students in practice and their continued monitoring.
• An intelligent system that helps to support the self-learning process that every prospective teacher must record during the period of in-school teaching practice.
The project is contextualized in the Faculties of Educational Sciences and in particular in the official studies of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education. With the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, ITE in Europe converges in the incorporation of a significant period of school teaching practice (in-school placement) that in some cases constitutes up to 25% of the prospective teacher training. EU Commission, in its report “The Teaching Profession in Europe” (European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice,2015), highlights “real classroom experience” as one of the 3 key elements of ITE, emphasizing the importance of “in-school placement” at the same level of the “academic knowledge of their subject” and “teaching approaches”. A proper teacher training requires to be trained in these three elements. Surprisingly, academic policies do not generally value these three equally, and frequently, in-school placement is less valued, understanding that prospective teachers learn these skills naturally just by being placed in a school. This way, key processes to promote reflective learning of the teaching profession, such as collaboration, interaction, monitoring, and counselling processes are neglected.
In-school placement co-participated by university lecturers and non-university teaching tutors has a strategic character in the training of prospective teachers and sets a favourable scenario to promote the interaction between theory and practice, exercise professional skills and experiment proposals for educational innovation monitored by experienced professionals and analysed by educational researchers. However, the experience and the studies carried out on teaching practice show that, despite being a strategic scenario for student teachers training, the training experience can be improved, and this improvement can be implemented through the application of resources and services, delivered through e-learning. We therefore intend to address the needs for improving the training of student teachers during the implementation of in-school placements and therefore develop methodologies and e-learning solutions that have a real impact on the following aspects that clearly need to be improved:
• Dynamics to coordinate work between university and non-university teachers who supervise and accompany the student during the in-school placement period.
• Individualized follow-up of students in practice and their continued monitoring.
• An intelligent system that helps to support the self-learning process that every prospective teacher must record during the period of in-school teaching practice.
Geplante Herangehensweise ist die Implementierung eines dauerhaften Gesamtmaßnahmenpakets für Grundschullehrer/innen der Klassen 1-4 (6- bis 10-Jährige) unter Zusammenarbeit von Bildungsinstitutionen in der Programmregion.
Dies ist durch 3 Aktivitäten gekennzeichnet:
1. Einrichtung regionaler Informations- & Beratungsstellen als Teil des grenzüberschreitenden Netzwerks,
2. Entwicklung & Pilotierung von kompetenzorientierten Unterrichtsmaterialien,
3. Bildungsprogramme für Grundschullehrer/innen und Ausbildung von Multiplikator/innen.
This project follows previous experience related to games and education like the CHAMPS Erasmus+Project, 2017-2019. We are using a simple Chess/Checkers board, but are introducing a broad range of simple ludic activities to teach games that offer great depth. Our goal is to empower children to discover patterns and possible strategies by themselves. These games can be played with simple materials and, in some cases, even with just pen and paper, which makes them ideal to be explored in the classroom and at home.
Take Slimetrail as an example (you can play it on the left). Two players take turns moving the same piece (here in purple). A move is to an orthogonally or diagonally adjacent square that has not been occupied before. Whoever brings the piece to his or her corner, wins. If you cannot play, because it is your turn and the piece is blocked, you lose.
8×8 has started on 16 September 2019. The project is coordinated by the Portuguese mathematics association Ludus. The partners are the Haus der Mathematik at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna, the regional school administration Académie de Créteil near Paris, and the education and training consultancy ChessPlus in London.
Through feedback based on classroom observation and the response from teachers, we are researching how to best use these games. We are also developing a manual and training for primary school teachers. These will result in two documents which will be freely available for download (you can find a preselection of rules below). You can help us by spreading and using these games!
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts werden ausgewählte Vorlesungen der Universität Wien und Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien, die mit der Flipped-Classroom-Methode durchgeführt wurden, mit jenen, die traditionell durchgeführt wurden, verglichen. Konkret bilden vor dem Hintergrund des Aspekts des Mehrwerts des Einsatzes digitaler Medien folgende sechs zentrale Fragestellungen die Ausgangsüberlegungen für das Forschungsdesign:
• Wie kann durch das didaktische Design eine aktive Teilnahme der Studierenden in den ausgewählten Lehrveranstaltungen über den gesamten Beobachtungszeitraum (ein Semester) sichergestellt werden?
• Wie ist die Balance zwischen Präsenz- und Fernlehre zu gestalten?
• Welche E-Kompetenzen benötigen Lehrende, welche Studierende?
• Welche Faktoren bedingen die Akzeptanz von FC-Angeboten, welche erhöhen den Wunsch nach traditionellen Angeboten?
• Führt der Einsatz der FC-Methode in den ausgewählten Lehrveranstaltungen im Vergleich zu traditionellen Vorlesungsangeboten zu einer Steigerung des Wissenszuwachses im jeweiligen Fachbereich?
• Führt der Einsatz der FC-Methode in den ausgewählten Lehrveranstaltungen im Vergleich zu traditionellen Vorlesungsangeboten zu einer vertieften, reflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit Lehrinhalten, die den Praxisbezug für die Studierenden deutlich macht?
Um ein möglichst ganzheitliches Verständnis von Lehr-Lerneffekten verfolgen zu können, wird der Flipped-Classroom-Ansatz sowohl aus der Perspektive der Lehrenden als auch aus der Perspektive der Studierenden analysiert.
Das Projekt ist als Mixed Methode-Forschungsprojekt konzipiert und beinhaltet zwei qualitative und zwei quantitative Querschnittsuntersuchungen.