NEW WAYS TO TEACH STEM AND SCREENLESS ICT FOR TEACHERS (CHILDREN 4-8 YEARS)
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is aimed at:
- teachers and school staff working with children of age 4-8 years
- class teacher assistants
- teachers of children with special needs
- student teachers
- afterschool clubs
- anyone interested in exploring new ways of teaching methods and techniques for STEM and screenless ICT educational activities
Participants are expected to have intermediate English proficiency. Max. group size: 15.
COURSE OVERVIEW
The course offers new ways for teachers to promote STEM and screenless ICT activities in their classrooms. The course is interactive and we use the “learning by doing” approach. The participants, in the role of children, experience how to build and create a technical world from a basic blueprint of a house (water and electric system) to simple creating and coding of a program for a robot to do a specific duty. The course includes demonstration lessons at a local kindergarten.
The aim of the course is to provide teachers new ideas how to introduce pre-school and primary school children (4-8 years) to the technical and digital world surrounding us. We aim to improve teachers STEM and ICT skills.
DAILY PROGRAMME (5 days MO-FRI)
Day 1: STEM – LEARNING AND CONSTRUCTING (LITTLE BUILDER) Part 1
Introduction of participants, outline of the programme, warm ups and ice breakers.
Interactive workshop focused on presenting examples and inspiration for teachers to apply fun and educational STEM activities in their classrooms.
Interactive workshop focused on presenting examples and inspiration for teachers to apply fun and educational STEM activities in their classrooms.
Themes include: role playing as a city builder to build a city and create maps, role playing as architects to read blueprints, role playing as an electrician to understand electricity diagrams, role playing as a plumber to build water piping systems. Participants will learn how to construct the structures and systems on their own in order to instruct their students.
Organized historical walk through Prague in the afternoon.
Day 2: STEM – LEARNING AND CONSTRUCTING (LITTLE BUILDER) Part 2
Interactive workshop focused on presenting examples and inspiration for teachers to apply fun and educational STEM activities part 2 in their classrooms.
Themes include: bridge building and binding bricks, tower builders and the stability of towers, world-known towers, sewage plant, filters and filtrations, easy hands on activities, different kinds of power plants and hands on learning about the electricity path to our homes.
Free time to explore Prague or extra program to be arranged.
Day 3: SCREENLESS ICT
Interactive workshop focused on presenting examples and inspiration for teachers to apply fun and educational screenless ICT activities in their classrooms.
Themes include: robots among us, logical games, orientation on a map grid, solving basic daily problems by creative thinking, decision making, algorithm and easy coding
Free time to explore Prague or extra program to be arranged.
Day 4 : KINDERGARTEN VISIT
Spend the entire morning in a Czech kindergarten and observe the methods of a STEM unit (from Day 1) and ICT unit (from Day 3). Get the chance to experience school life in a Czech kindergarten.
Free time to explore Prague or extra program to be arranged.
Day 5: SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Learn how to implement the new knowledge and skills into your classroom.
For additional fees we are happy to organize extra program such as National Theatre, Black-light theatre tickets, dinner in a traditional Czech restaurant in the center of Prague or concert tickets. We can also organize group sightseeing. Please tell us in advance if you are interested.