SCHOOL AND SCIENCE MUSEUM: COOPERATION FOR IMPROVING TEACHING, LEARNING AND DISCOVERY
International in-service training course for teachers and museum educators
11th edition, 28 June - 4 July 2015, National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci Milano, Italy
The course aims at fostering the collaboration between teachers and museum educators as facilitators of learning and active engagement in science. It supports the use of museums as educational resources for teaching and learning in science and as tools of scientific citizenship. It is organized in a series of lectures, museum visits, interactive workshops, discussion games and experimental activities. All these use the exhibitions and interactive labs of the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milano. The course is held by an international group of experts specializing in a range of fields: pedagogy, museum education, science education, science & society, research and evaluation, professional development, new media and technologies. The National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci and the Deutsches Museum have the scientific and educational responsibility of the course as well as the responsibility of all organizational aspects. The other experts come from: the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hungary, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, the University of Leuven, Belgium. The main topics covered by the course are: - Learning methodologies: Inquiry-based science learning, tinkering and making - Learning with objects and with interactive activities in museums - The educational role of museums - Museum and school cooperation for science education - Science and Society' and scientific citizenship - New and digital media as learning tools. The training course is the result of the EU-funded projects SMEC (School-Museum European Cooperation) and SETAC (Science Education as Tool for Active Citizenship). It has been running since 2004, and so far has trained about 250 teachers and museum educators from 29 countries of the European Union and beyond.
For more information: http://www.museoscienza.org/smec/courses_11_eng.htm