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STING project workshop a success!

Posted: July 24, 2019

EUC

The STING project (Erasmus+ 2014-1-ES01-KA201-003688) aims to promote gender awareness within STEM education to improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education through an innovative teacher professional development programme. Involving transnational cooperation between teachers, schools, teacher trainers, science centers, other educational stakeholders, companies and policy makers, this innovative teacher development programme seeks to share best educational practices for gender balance. By fostering international cooperation, the program’s ultimate goal is that teachers will integrate gender awareness into their practice to improve STEM Education.

As part of the research project, an one-day workshop entitled ‘Differentiation, Diversity and Gender: Contemporary Approaches in Teaching and Learning Science in Primary School’ was held on the 23rd of January 2016 at the premises of the European University Cyprus. The objective of the workshop was the development and the improvement of teaching skills and experiences of teachers in science teaching ultimately seeking to promote positive learning attitudes of female students towards STEM education. More details about the workshop can be found here.

30 in-service upper-primary school science teachers from 18 differed public schools attended the workshop. Teachers engaged in a number of theoretical and hands-on science activities, aiming at providing them with rich experiences and conceptual background on issues related to gender balance in science education. Following this workshop, the STING program and European University Cyprus are supporting a number of schools participating in an innovative program of school visits related to STEM. School teachers who participated in the workshop will have the opportunity for the next two months to accompany one of their school classes on an educational visit were students will take part in a series of specially designed activities in the area of robotics, engineering, physics, aerodynamics and biology with an emphasis on differentiation of teaching methods in science teaching specifically in relation to students’ gender.

More information on the project at: http://stingeuproject.com/