EU TRAIN EUROPEAN TRAINING FOR STUDENT TEACHERS IN SCIENCE Socrates program meeting Jyväskylä November

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1 MEMORANDUM EU TRAIN EUROPEAN TRAINING FOR STUDENT TEACHERS IN SCIENCE Socrates program meeting Jyväskylä November st meeting of the EU TRAIN European Training for student teachers in science Socrates program Official program as an attachment. Helsinki, October, 2005 M.Sc. Seija Valtonen Coordinator Teacher Training School No. 1 Dr. Jarkko Lampiselkä Project leader Department of Applied Sciences of Education P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20 R) FIN UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI FINLAND Finland

2 EU TRAIN EUROPEAN TRAINING FOR STUDENT TEACHERS IN SCIENCE Socrates program meeting, Jyväskylä, November 18 22, 2005 Time: November 18 22, 2005 Place: Finland, Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä Participants: Finland Dr. Jarkko Lampiselkä, Project Leader (HU) M.Sc. Seija Valtonen, Coordinator (HU) Dr. Maija Aksela (HU), Web master Prof. Jari Lavonen (HU), Inst. Coord M.Sc. Timo Kärkkäinen (HU) M.Sc. Eliisa Heimovaara (JU) Dr. Liisa Kyyrönen (JU), Instit coord (JU) M.Sc. Pekka Parkkinen (JU) Bulgaria Ass. Prof. Zhelyazka Raykova, National coordinator Dr. Roumyana Stoyanova, Institutional coordinator Estonia Dr. Jaan Susi, National coordinator M.Sc. Ott Kirkmann, Institutional coordinator M.Sc. Reina Henn Poland Dr. Katarzyna Przegietka, National coordinator Dr. Turlo Jozefina, Institutional coordinator Agenda 1 Participants' presentations 2 Work plan for year 2006 and agreement of short time deadlines for the project 3 Allocation of tasks for the project 4 Evaluation strategy for the project (Estonia) 5 Agreement of financial arrangements (Finland) 6 Contractual arrangements (Finland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland) 7 Visit to the Teachers' Training school of Jyväskylä University 8 Visits to the Physics and the Chemistry Departments of Jyväskylä University: 9 Visit to the Teachers' Training school of Helsinki University 10 Visit to the chemistry and physics departments of Helsinki University 11 Next meeting: 12 Closing of the first meeting. 1 Participants' presentations All participants introduced their institution and/or their home town shortly. 2 Work plan for year 2006 and agreement of short time deadlines for the project The Work Plan for the year 2006 was discussed. All participants agreed that the schedule for the

3 following year seems reasonable and there is no need for change The following list for the deadlines was made: All the participants will ask their national Socrates Agency for the application forms of the international mobility of students in the schoolyear , program Comenius 2.2.A, which is a part of our project Comenius 2.1., and ask which is the national deadline All persons should fill the internal evaluation report and send it to Dr. Jaan Susi Time Sheets of working hours in October and November and Travel + Subsistence Costs to the coordinator All Partners should send the documents of national/institutional recourses for education to coordinator Seija Valtonen Dr. Maija Aksela, Finland, will launch the Web-site of the EU TRAIN project. She will make a table for national educational systems so that it will be easy to compare them Publication of the Web-site for EU TRAIN project (Dr. Maija Aksela, person in charge) Translations of curricula for practical training of science teachers First draft of the mobility plan should be ready. Deadlines of the Internal Report Sheets: 1. Internal Progress Report Form, once a year /7/8 All the recipes and internal report forms concerning the previous period should be sent to the co-ordinator before /7/8 2. Time Sheet once a month, for the first time Cost to employer per day/hour will be counted deviding the cost per year by the number of working days/working hours. 3. Internal Report Sheet Personnel Costs when there will be changes in salaries. 4. Internal Report Sheet Travel + Subsistence Costs will be set to co-ordinator after every project meeting. The original recipes, for instance boarding passes and tickets, must be included. 5. Internal Report Sheet Equipment and Materials after purchases 6. Internal Report Sheet Subcontracting Costs for sub-contracting, consultancy and other external services: for translators, evaluators, book printing in Bulgaria and referees of the book 7. Internal Report Sheet Other Costs for information material for student teachers, Internet connection costs and book translated and published in Polish 3 Allocation of tasks for the project Allocation of tasks was discussed.

4 Participating institutions have different tasks, Helsinki management and Web page Jyväskylä teacher education of chemistry Bulgaria editing and printing of the book Estonia evaluation Poland teacher education of physics Management of the project Leader Jarkko Lampiselkä Coordinator Seija Valtonen Contact person Seija Valtonen University National coord. Inst. coord. Contact person Helsinki J. Lavonen J. Lampiselkä S. Valtonen Jyväskylä L. Kyyrönen L. Kyyrönen Plovdiv R. Mitrikova Z. Raykova Z. Raykova Tartu J. Susi O. Krikmann J. Susi Torun J. Turlo K. Przegietka K. Przegietka 4 Evaluation strategy for the project Dr. Jaan Susi presented ideas about the evaluation of the project. The evaluation comprises internal and external evaluation. Internal evaluation is carried out by partner institutions and students taking in to the mobility actions and the external evaluation by external evaluator. All national project plans and activities are evaluated by coordination meetings where national plans or new teacher training curricula, preliminary findings and results will be presented and evaluated. The project working group of Tartu University collects internal evaluation and writes the evaluation document for interims and the final report. They also prepare the draft of evaluation plan to be published on the web page in September Dr. Miia Rannikmäe, a senior researcher at the Center of Science Education University of Tartu, was selected to be the external evaluator. She has published several scientific papers, she is a board member of IOSTE and a member of several OECD working groups. In general, Dr. Miia Rannikmäe was evaluated competent to carry out the external evaluation of the EU TRAIN project 5 Agreement of financial arrangements Financial agreements were discussed. First 40 % of the total amount of the grant has been transferred to the account of the coordinating institution (Helsinki University). Allocation of recourses was discussed and no changes to the previous agreed portions were proposed. Financial manager is now the secretary of Helsingin Normaalilyseo, Eila Savonheimo, and will be M..C. Marja Loukasmäki, beginning The Project Coordinator Seija Valtonen and financial manager Marja Loukasmäki should be contacted whenever one has questions about financing, money transfers, or such.

5 6 Contractual arrangements Discussion about the different kind of arrangements was arranged on Sunday 20 November. First, the concepts were clarified. Contract comes into operation between the Coordinating Institution and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) when the Grant Agreement has been issued. These documents are undersigned by official representatives of the Coordinating Institution and the CEC. Coordinator is the representative person for the Coordinating Institution. Hereinafter the Coordinating Institution is referred to a Contractor, in this case, the Helsinki University. Partner Agreements comes into operation at the same time. Partner Agreements are agreements between the Coordinating Institution and the Partner Institution. Partner institution has a representative person. These documents are undersigned by the official representatives of the Contractor and the Partner, such as, Rector or Vice Rector. Within the project, the Coordinative Institution is willing to make Individual Agreements between the Coordinator and the person belonging to the project. Discussion was vivid and all partners were able to present their ideas and concerns. Partner agreement was read and discussed in detail. Some corrections (e.g. date), and adjustments, were maid to the Article 4 and Article 5. Dr. Josefina Turlo presented that Articles should be left out from the Agreement. However, after discussions, a joint resolution was to sustain the Articles in the Agreement. No voting was needed. 7 Visit to the Teachers' Training school of Jyväskylä University M.Sc. Pekka Parkkinen and Dr. Liisa Kyyrönen arranged a visit to the Teacher Training School of Jyväskylä University. The School building was introduced and visitors were able to participate to a physics lesson carried out by a teacher trainee. Discussion about the content of the lesson, as well as, the organization of the teaching and learning was held. Visitors were able to participate to the feedback discussion organized for the teacher trainer and the trainee. Visitors are asked to write short memorandum about the visit. 8 Visits to the Physics and the Chemistry Departments of Jyväskylä University: Visitors were conveyed Chemistry and Physics Departments after the visit to the Training School Dr. Jouni Välisaari presented the Chemistry Teacher Training, Professor Henrik Kunttu the Nano Science Centre and Dr. Juha Merikoski the Physics Department, respectively. Visitors are asked to write short memorandum about the visit. 9 Visit to the Teachers' Training school of Helsinki University M.Sc. Timo Kärkkäinen told about a new video project that is going on in Helsinki University. He also showed a video he had made during a physics lesson given by a trainee. The participants discussed about their practices to give video feedback to trainees. The visitors listened a lesson where a trainee was teaching English at the lower secondary school.

6 10 Visit to the chemistry and physics departments of Helsinki University The leader of Physics Teacher Education Unit, professor Heimo Saarikko told about the new Kumpula Campus and physics teacher education there. The visitors were very interested in his presentation and the discussion was vivid. In the school laboratory of the department, university lecturer of didactical physics, PhD Ari Hämäläinen explained experimentation carried by future teachers. In the Department of Chemistry Research Assistant Elina Nurminen introduced to the visitors the Centre for Chemistry Education, which has subject-matter responsibility in preparing teachers of chemistry and elementary teachers, conducting research in chemical education. The day ended with a visit in Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, guided by dr. Hannu Salmi. 11 Next meeting: Next meeting will be arranged at Plodiv University, Bulgaria, on March The contact person for the next meeting is the National Coordinator for Bulgaria, Assistant Professor Zhelyazka Raykova. 12 Closing of the first meeting.

7 EU TRAIN EUROPEAN TRAINING FOR STUDENT TEACHERS IN SCIENCE Socrates program meeting, Jyväskylä, November 18 22, 2005 Contact information Participating institution No 1 Project Leader Dr. Jarkko Lampiselkä Faculty of Behavioural Sciences Department of Applied Sciences of Education Siltavuorenpenger 20 R P.O. Box 9 FIN Helsingin yliopisto FINLAND Tel Fax jarkko.lampiselka@helsinki.fi Coordinator M.Sc. Seija Valtonen Teachers Training School No.1 Ratakatu 6 b FIN Helsingin yliopisto FINLAND Tel Fax seija.valtonen@helsinki.fi Participating institution No 2 Dr. Liisa Kyyrönen University of Jyväskylä Deparment of Teacher Training Seminaarinmäki P.O. Box 35 FIN Jyväskylän yliopisto FINLAND Tel Fax lkyyrone@edu.jyu.fi Participating institution No 3 Chief assistant professor Zhelyazka Raykova BULGARIA 4000 Plovdiv University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski Faculty of Physics Tel. (+) Fax. (+) janeraik@pu.acad.bg Participating institution No 4 Dr. Jaan Susi University of Tartu Faculty of Physics and Chemistry School Physics Centre Tartu ESTONIA Tel Fax jaan.susi@ut.ee Participating institution No 5 Dr. Katarzyna Przegiętka Nicolaus Copernicus University Education of Physics Laboratory Toruń POLAND Tel Fax Kszum@phys.uni.torum.pl

8 Schedule Time 8-9 Friday 18 Saturday 19 Sunday 20 Monday 21 Tuesday Train to Jyväskylä Allocation of Tasks Agreement of Deadlines Visit to the Training School Visit to the Training School Coffee brake Lunch at School Lunch at School Evaluation Strategy Lunch Lunch Transportation (From airport to Helsinki) Participant s presentations Coffee brake Work Plan Agreement of financial arrangements Coffee Brake Contractual arrangements Visit to the Chemistry and Physics Departments Coffee brake Visit to the dormitory for foreign students Lunch Train to Helsinki Closing of the meeting Dinner Concert Dinner