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Sharing expertise in educational support for gifted and motivated youth
Notes and recordings prepared by Elizabeth Mc Donnell
A: Presentation themes
Theme/ Topic | Features/ purpose/interest | Challenges/ questions |
Centres of excellence |
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Better policies towards young peopleDealing with the political /state system |
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Summer schools/camps |
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Cross-sector knowledge transfer |
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Connecting scientists/ science to the school curriculumCollaboration between scientists and teachers |
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Scientific workshops |
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Physics for gifted students |
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Science Academy/ choosing careers |
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Grow knowledge and skills of teachers in educating young people | ||
Rethink education at university level | ||
Open Curriculum / autonomy of schools |
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Self-paced learning |
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Inquiry –based learning | ||
Working in difficult social conditions |
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Working with students from very different backgrounds |
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Science and conflict management |
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B: Ideas
Swapshop |
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Interactive lectures |
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Teaching and research through games |
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Self-determination |
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Dancing molecules | ||
Slash mob | ||
Scientists in schools | ||
Teacher education on science workshops | ||
Competitions |
C: Ideas developed following sharing and discussion (26th Feb)
# | Idea for an activity | Key elements | Outcomes/ purpose | How to start 다운로드? |
1. | Exchange/ volunteering |
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2. | Share educational material/ projects |
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Build on existing/ online repositories of teaching materials, open source |
3. | Case study-based collaborative strategies |
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4. | Science teacher exchange/ primary schoolCollaboration with national agencies to help dissemination of results |
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Duration of 3 hrs or more Find us the money!(EU Lifelong Learning programme – Leonardo) |
5. | Project or curriculum based on student inquiry/ questions/ ideas |
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Obstacles
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6 전생 검신 txt 다운로드. | Travelling science playground |
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Collaboration with the Međimurje county in fall 2012 |
7. | Joint education for mentors and teachers |
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In Zagreb, SSF people already do it.
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8. | International exchange of mentors |
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9. | Seeing Maths as an experimental science |
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10 다운로드. | Annual newsletter of activities | Individually towards schools AND pupils | Better communication towards schools | Annual plan in advance |
D: Discussion topic: What do we mean by ‘gifted’/ ‘motivated?
(Recordings from group discussion of Sat 25th Feb.)
Gifted: talented, highly-capable, intelligent, clever; above average, fast learner, communicator;
Motivated: hard-working, wanting to change one’s life; driven, passionate, curious, interested,
Issues/ questions
- Identifying motivated is easy; identifying gifted is?
- Gifted is hidden, you can see motivation; motivation is variable, you can modify it. Context-dependent
- Gifted are, by definition, motivated?
- What is our real goal when we work with gifted/ motivated kids? To help them or to recruit them?
- Experts can define gifted – we should listen to them, have criteria 다운로드. Don’t agree – expert criteria my not work/ be right. Do we need to define/ follow the official line? We are working with unofficial education.
- Do we see gifted as a ‘dirty’ word? That we should not tell them that they are gifted? Acknowledge that they exist/ not all the same ability.
- Gifted can create problems – social/ egos/ self-absorbed; gifted have their own way of thinking.
- Balance – encourage v be realistic, not all can/ will realise their dreams.
- What is the role of the teacher?
(Recordings from group discussion on Monday 27th Feb)
Gifted/ motivated
- we don’t know what ‘gifted’ is – won’t use the word anymore; motivated we know
- there is a clear difference between gifted and motivated
- we work with motivated, gifted may be amongst them
- in Croatia, must use the term ‘gifted’ for funding purposes, not motivated; in France, must not use gifted, use motivated (national context); buzz words
- not important that kids are gifted but important that they are motivated; recognize that some are gifted
- motivation can be developed, gifted is inherited
- working with science for social action, focus not on gifted
- need to work on motivation
- unrealistic social expectation from gifted (Croatia); not helpful
- gifted and motivated should appear together – need both
Purpose in working with gifted / motivated
- develop skills; motivation needs developing- be curious, ask questions ok to be wrong
- ‘good’ qualities of children often lost through the education system
- See a need to do something different to the official educational system
- Need to be specific on what you want to achieve (France)
- Too much emphasis on initial purpose may miss added value / emergent, unexpected outcomes
- Keep up level of motivation – it spreads; work with those with the potential for motivation
E: Different organizations – exploration of similarities and differences in activities / projects
SSF – science workshops; Uni Paris 11 – interdisciplinary BA; PMF Zg- chemistry education, inquiry-based; Os Spinut- facilitating teaching; CRI- games in education, research in education; MNM- math workshops, projects
Group #1:
Similarities: small groups; project work; we experiment with teaching; kids think themselves; critical and creative thinking developed
Different but generalizable.
Group #2:
Similarities: Become a ‘researcher’; experimentation, present your results; meeting with scientists; difficulties to work in schools without teachers; diversity: mix of social / geog 일본어 mp3 다운로드. Backgrounds
Specificities: local, national, international – scope of target; cost of mentor- volunteers, paid; type of actions- camps, long-duration projects, festival.
Group #3:
Similarities: flexible approach (personalised approach); small groups; active and interactive programs; directed to motivated students
Differences: Collaboration with local business needs?; different ways of communication with students and teachers in gov. schools; competition
F: Discussion of issues identified by group members (25th and 26th Feb)
1.Continuity/ irregular attendance
- Give responsibility, students have a choice
- Create sense of community – use internet/ keep link, contact between sessions
- Be prepared to say ‘ bye bye’ (both to students and to mentors)
2.Funding
- Small organizations need to collaborate
- Apply for projects that have a wider appeal than one’s own target group
- Start small/ gradual, then increase
3.Attracting children from socially-deprived backgrounds
- Go directly to where people are from such backgrounds are
- Market your work- use visuals
- Language may be a barrier (lack of confidence)
- Ask on website to fill out a short form/ leave info – build up a database of direct contacts
4.How to persuade politicians and policy-makers of the value of our work?
- Get politicians involved in the project in some way
- Involve media e.g via involvement of a celebrity / well-known person
5 원피스 442화 다운로드. How to empower and not impose?
- Have activities to collect ideas and get thoughts
- Do not push too hard – help in expressing ideas and thoughts
G. Summer school discussion (27th Feb)
- Meeting / learning with different people; not necessarily different methods
- Education in school not good enough, say it!
- Not our job to change the curriculum – that of government but not doing it; civil society and teacher doing it (Croatia)
- Working outside the system but want to change the system
- Whose job – gov? civil society
H: Action planning (27th Feb)
Participants wanted to go further and develop some of the ideas from the previous 2 days 다운로드.
Proposals
# | Title | Strengths | Potential | Concerns |
1. | Change the policy about ‘giftedness’ |
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2. | Develop project-based curriculum |
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3. | Influencing the Ministry/ Regional authorities to support the SSCs |
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4. | Mind Twister Workshop: Incorporation interdisciplinary scientific workshops into summer schools |
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5. | Retired Educational Hobby |
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6. | Workshops with families | connects to #5 and expands on that |
Participants split into 2 groups. One group developed topic 3 (influencing the Ministry/ Regional authorities) and the other, topic 4 (Incorporation of interdisciplinary workshops into summer schools).
I: Useful websites
MERLOT: academic repository for teaching materials; professionally curated
comPADre: academic repository for teaching materials in physics; professionally curated
Scienceamusante.net (in French, Google translator is your friend): teaching materials in chemistry/ physics; very detailed in all aspects; activities, security, materials
howtosmile.org: use of science activities by museums of science
instructables.com: practical step-by-step tutorials on how to make or do stuff; it’s free and open; anybody can post stuff
USTREAM: simple iPhone/Android phone applications for live video streaming and recording
Khanacademy.org: short, simple teaching videos explaining basic maths
www.artofproblemsolving.com : forum and a repository of maths problems and solutions
salto-youth.net and otlas.eu: websites for finding partners for international projects of non-formal education (part of the Youth in Action programmes)
Teacher blogs: Dan Myer – maths; Think, Thank, Thunk – mostly physics but more; Ira Socol- special education and tech in school, Action-Reaction (Frank Noschrence) – modelling physics, Clay Burell (Beyond School) - history and literature, especially chinese
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