THE	AMSTERDAM	SUMMER UNIVERSITY

	MAASTRICHT

Science Across the World: Using the Internet for Inter-school Communication
Sunday, July 2, 2006 - Sunday, July 9, 2006

In conjunction with the University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO)

In this intensive course participants will become acquainted with the Science Across the World programme. They will acquire specific knowledge about Internet applications and resources relevant for interschool communication. The course will provide them with knowledge and skills that they can use in their classroom practice.

If you would like to be kept up to date about this course subject, please send us an email.

Applicant Profile

This course is intended for newly qualified and practicing science and foreign language teachers interested in the possibilities of teaching and learning in a European context by using the Internet for their classroom practice. The Science Across the World programme offers most materials for students aged 10-15, therefore, this course is best for teachers teaching or dealing with this age group.
A basic knowledge of computers is necessary: participants should at least be familiar with Windows platforms and word-processors. Before, during and after the course we will use an Electronic Learning Environment (Blackboard). Using this ELO doesn't need preceding knowledge or skills.

Application

Applicants should submit their completed application form (by post or fax) as soon as possible.
Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.

AMSU Course Name: COM-1.

Details

Date: Sunday, July 2, 2006 - Sunday, July 9, 2006

Application Deadline: Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.

Capacity: 25 participants.

Language of Instruction: English.

Location: This course will be held in the building of the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA), Wibautstraat 2-4, in the city centre of Amsterdam.

Computers: For this course, only the use of Windows computers is supported, there will be no facilities available for Mac users.

Fee: € 750,- (including course materials, welcome drink, access to the cultural evening programme on the AMSU, coffee/tea breaks on Monday to Friday).

Lunch & Course Dinner (Optional): € 75,- for 5 common lunches (Monday to Friday) and € 35,- for the Course Dinner on Thursday evening.
Please specify if you wish to participate in the common lunches and/or Course Dinner, either on your (pre)registration form or when confirming being awarded a Comenius 2.2/Grundtvig 3 grant.

Grant: COMENIUS 2.2/GRUNDTVIG 3 In-Service Training Grant of the European Union.

Grant's Course Code: NL-2006-013

Initiators: ILO - Graduate School of Teaching & Learning, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).

Coordination: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).

Registration: Confirmed participants are expected to register between 15.00 PM and 17.00 PM on Sunday, July 2, 2006 at the building Felix Meritis, located at Keizersgracht 324 in Amsterdam. Registration will be followed by a welcome drink.

Course Leaders

Lida Schoen (Netherlands) - Educational Consultant; Science Across the World.

Dr. Lida Schoen graduated as a chemist at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She worked as a teacher trainer and during the last 12 years as an educational consultant, mainly for international projects. She is a team member and trainer of the Science Across the World programme and titular member of the Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Her main interest is communicating about science: public understanding.
Schoen was already involved in many Comenius 2.2 courses, gained experience in Comenius school partnerships and now chairs the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) project in transient countries (already stops in Taiwan, Argentina, Siberia, Korea, and in the near future in South Africa and Mauritius), together with Keith Kelly.

Links: Science Across the World; Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) — Siberia; Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) — Korea.

Keith P. Kelly - Educational Consultant.

Keith Kelly is a freelance education consultant based in Bulgaria. He has an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and a PGCE in French, Russian and German from Bristol University. He then took a Masters degree in English Language Education at Manchester University. He is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer, a team member of Science Across the World, and an Associate Tutor for the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE). Keith is also a founder and coordinator of the Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching (FACT). From 1999-2003 Keith was coordinator of the English Across the Curriculum project for the British Council in Bulgaria where he worked in and with bilingual schools around Bulgaria and the region. Keith, along with John Clegg, is co-author of the CLIL MA Module for NILE and Leeds Metropolitain University. He has been working as a freelance education consultant since August 2003 on education projects mainly focusing on the teaching of content through the medium of a foreign language.

Related: People: Lida Schoen.

Ton (Anton) G.M. Koet (Netherlands) - Teacher Trainer; Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Ton Koet is a teacher trainer at the Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is particularly interested in the teaching of pronunciation and in the application of speech technology in language teaching.

Links: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Programme

In this course we will stress on (collaborative) learning instead of teaching. Apart from the programme outlined below, the course offers opportunities to start school partnerships with Comenius funding. After the course participants can go on collaborating via the Electronic Learning Environment.

Sunday, July 2, 2006
12.00 PM Arrival
15.00 PM Registration
16.30 PM welcome drinks and social and cultural programme

Monday, July 3, 2006
09.30 AM Welcome and getting to know the teachers, participants and course location, Introduction to the Science across the World programme
10.30 AM Computer lab: the Science across the World web pages
11.30 AM Exploring content and possible use
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Participants present themselves, their school/institute/
organization and their country/region (PowerPoint presentation or web site) (I)
15.00 PM Practical implementation of Science across the World in your school or teacher training college,
17.00 PM Summary of today's sessions
18.00 PM Guided city walk

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
09.30 AM Key issues in communicating science through English as a second language
11.00 AM Participants present themselves, their school/institute/
organization and their country/region (PowerPoint presentation or web site) (II)
12.00 PM Studying Science Across the World topics (16 available) in more detail in groups, e.g.
- Plants in our lives (primary); What do you eat? (junior secondary); Global warming (senior secondary, web based)
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Participants' presentations: good practices, country initiatives
15.00 PM Using graphics to represent data
17.00 PM Summary of today's sessions
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
09.30 AM Introduction: how to create Action 1 school partner-ships with Comenius funding
11.00 AM Group work: how to create Action 1 schoolpartner-ships: finding partners
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Practical work for science and language teachers around:
- Talking about genetics around the World
- Chemistry in our lives
16.00 PM Preparing group presentation about the practical work
17.00 PM Preparing the international dinner
18.00 PM Presentations of results with international food and drinks (taken in by participants) during the social and cultural programme

Thursday, July 6, 2006
09.30 AM The Science across the World programme for improving literacy and language skills
10.30 AM Workshop practical examples
11.30 AM Exploring the web for useful materials and information
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Good practices: Comenius 1 school partnerships
15.00 PM Group work: a Science across the World topic as a start for a Comenius school partnership: action plan
18.00 PM Boat trip to land participants at Kantjil & de Tijger Indonesian restaurant and Course dinner

Friday, July 7, 2006
09.30 AM A Action plan practical: preparatory visit, 3 years programme, bilateral visits
09.30 AM B How can teacher trainers, inspectors and advisors go on? Discussion around different training programmes
12.00 PM A International groups present their action plans
12.00 PM B Teacher trainers, inspectors and advisors present training programmes for (student) teachers
13.00 AM Lunch
14.00 AM Seminar wrap-up and evaluation
16.00 AM Closing ceremony

Saturday, July 8, 2006
10.00 AM Social & cultural programme: visit to NEMO museum - how to use a science activity centre in your projects?

Sunday, July 9, 2006
12.00 PM Departure

Science Across the World: Using the Internet for Inter-school Communication Sunday, July 2, 2006 - Sunday, July 9, 2006