Dear PRIMAS Community,
we would like to give you a very brief introduction to our project, especially as we regard it to be relevant for our teachers and multipliers. We look forward to discussions in this forum and hope that it will develop to become the basis for our community of IBL-inspired teachers across Europe.
Sincerely,
Your PRIMAS team
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PRIMAS stands for ‘Promoting inquiry-based learning (IBL) in mathematics and science across Europe’. IBL has the potential to raise students’ intrinsic interest in mathematics and science and it supports the attainment of important competencies like self-directed learning and exploring new knowledge areas or problem-solving skills.
Teachers are the key players in implementing IBL pedagogies in mathematics and science classrooms. This is why PRIMAS predominately aims to supports the teachers. We do so by combining three elements: providing teaching materials along with professional development courses and a continuous support system within ‘communities of IBL-practice’. Each singular element provides benefits for the teachers but it is the combination that probably adds the biggest benefit.
A very close cooperation with the national school authorities, teacher training providers, curriculum designers, etc. ensures that the best possible conditions are provided in every country. Cooperation with parents and students is another dimension in the project´s support structures for teachers.
PRIMAS is funded under the EU´s 7th Framework Programme for Research, within the ‘Science in Society’ strand. The project runs for 4 years (2010-2013) in 12 European countries: Cyprus, Denmark, Germany (coordinating institution: University of Education Freiburg), Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and UK.
More information on the project is available at:
www.primas-project.euYou also find an extended project desciption with partner links on the Scientix website -
PRIMAS Project Info on Scientix PortalIf you would like to get in contact with us, please contact: primas-info@ph-freiburg.de
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