Project PROFILES and Development of In-service Teachers’ “Stages of Concerns” Regarding IBSE in the Context of the Implementation of PROFILES Modules in Georgia

Schneider, Vincent and Kapanadze, Marika and Bolte, Claus and Slovinsky, Ekaterine (2013) Project PROFILES and Development of In-service Teachers’ “Stages of Concerns” Regarding IBSE in the Context of the Implementation of PROFILES Modules in Georgia. In: The International Conference on Physics Education, August 5-9, Prague, Czech Republic.

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Abstract

The PROFILES project is a four-year European FP7-funded project in the field of “Science in Society”, aiming at disseminating Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) in Europe. To achieve this goal, the 22 PROFILES partners from 21 countries are conducting innovative learning environments (PROFILES type Modules) and long-term teacher training programs for the enhancement of teachers’ continuous professional development (CPD). Both supportive action strategies are supposed to raise the self-efficacy of science teachers, enabling them to take “ownership” for teaching students in more effective ways, so that as many students as possible can benefit from the PROFILES approaches of teaching and learning science. To evaluate professional development processes we focus on the reconstruction of in-service teachers’ professional attitudes about IBSE. For this purpose we use the Stages of Concern model. In our report, we present pre-post test results to demonstrate how professional attitudes change during a Georgian PROFILES CPD term.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Depositing User:	Dr. Marika Kapanadze
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2015 12:52
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2015 12:52
URI:	http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/eprint/2108

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