IQST
Improving Quality of Science Teacher Training in European Cooperation

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The overall aim of the project as well as its specific objectives.

The overall aim is to:

contribute to the improvement of the quality of initial science teacher training in the participating countries;
analyse and compare teacher training programmes, review and develop training modules;
provide insights into the strategic aspects of teacher training; allow for interchange of ideas amongst practising sciences teachers and teacher trainers in an international setting;
provide a framework for individual to extend and develop relevant elements of his/her own competence;
enhance the participants' knowledge of aspects of European dimension and the principles of constructivist theory in science teacher training;

The specific objectives are the following:

To explore and develop new ways of initial training for science teachers based on European cooperation;
To establish cooperation and partnership between participating departments;
To design 5 new modules for science teacher training;
To implement European dimension in the newly designed modules;
To introduce new pedagogical methods based on constructivist approach in science teacher training;
To design teaching and learning materials for science teaching at initial teacher training;
To make students training to be teachers and their tutors aware of new pedagogical methods based on the constructivist approach;
To present these materials on web site of the project;
To disseminate the project knowledge and experience on educational conferences and in educational journals;
To implement and develop portfolio assessment of prospective science teachers;
To disseminate successful outcomes by means of designed modules and a collection of training materials with the best European practice.