Trans-national STEM teacher education focusing on transversal competence and sustainability education (acaSTEMy)

Trans-national STEM teacher education focussing on transversal competence and sustainability education

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Description

The goal of acaSTEMy is to develop a systemic support structure for high-quality, research-based STEM teacher education from pre-service education to continuing professional development (CPD) that includes mobility as an essential building block. The project envisions transversally competent and motivated STEM teachers who are well equipped to prepare students for their future careers. 

To reach its objectives, the acaSTEMy project plans to:

• Develop, pilot and promote various distance and blended learning models in combination with international mobility and mentorship
• Improve STEM teachers’ digital competences for meaningful pedagogies
• Support the competences and pedagogies of STEM teachers for sustainable and up-to-date education by developing CPD courses to address a) major challenges, such as environmental sustainability, green deal, global health and immigration and b) methodological aspects, such as teaching diverse classes, combating science anxiety, and fostering gender-sensitive teaching

 

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

 

Basic information

Coordinator

Tartu Ülikool, https://ut.ee/et​​​​​​​ 

Partners

• EUROPSKI TALENT CENTAR HRVATSKA - CENTRI IZVRSNOSTI VARAZDINSKE ZUPANIJE USTANOVA ZA OBRAZOVANJE ODRASLIH – Croatia
• Associação para Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina – Portugal
• BAHCESEHIR EGITIM KURUMLARI ANONIM SIRKETI – Turkey
• BSA
• Centar Drustvenih Inovacija – Croatia
• Eesti Keemiaõpetajate Liit – Estonia
• EESTI TEADUSTE AKADEEMIA – Estonia
• Egis Pharmaceuticals Private Limited Company – Hungary
• ELTE Bolyai János Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gimnázium – Hungary
• Experimenta gGmbH – Germany
• FabLab München e.V. – Germany
• FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG – Germany
• Gedeon Richter Plc. – Hungary
• HARIDUS- JA TEADUSMINISTEERIUM – Estonia
• Hariduse Edendamise Sihtasutus – Estonia
• INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION
• IZMIR IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU – Turkey
• Jelgavas Valsts gimnazija – Latvia
• JOENSUUN KAUPUNKI – Finland
• KIRCHLICHE PAEDAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE WIEN / KREMS – Austria
• Kõrveküla Põhikool – Estonia
• Latvijas Fizikas skolotaju asociacija – Latvia
• Latvijas kimijas skolotaju asociacija – Latvia
• Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete – Hungary
• Miina Härma Gymnasium – Estonia
• OPETUSHALLITUS OPH – Finland
• Osnovna skola Veceslava Holjevca – Croatia
• RAVIMIAMET – Estonia
• Sihtasutus Tallinna Tehnika- ja Teaduskeskus – Estonia
• SIHTASUTUS TEADUSKESKUS AHHAA – Estonia
• SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET – Croatia
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN – Germany
• ThingLink Oy – Finland
• UDRUGA ZA PROMICANJE POZITIVNE AFIRMACIJE MLADIH U DRUSTVU IMPRESS DARUVAR – Croatia
• Valmiera State Gymnasium – Latvia
• VALSTS IZGLITIBAS SATURA CENTRS – Latvia
• VARAZDINSKA ZUPANIJA – Croatia

Programme

Erasmus+ (programme-erasmus-plus)

Project Acronym

Target groups

education authorities, policy makers, researchers, teachers, trainee teachers, university lecturers, other

Topic

Applied sciences, Computer science, Information technology, Software engineering, Technology, Education, Other

Start year

2023

End year

2026

Url

https://www.acastemy.eu/

Contact person

project.acastemy@gmail.com, moonika.teppo@ut.ee, miia.rannikmae@ut.ee

The objectives of acaSTEMy are as follows:

• Form a strong, sustainable partnership of STEM teacher education and training providers to support high-quality, research-based STEM teacher education from pre-service teacher education to continuing professional development, with the aim of equipping teachers with the science competences and transversal skills they need to prepare themselves, as well as their students, for the future labour market. This objective entails extending and developing the competences of pre- and in-service STEM teachers, teacher educators, and other STEM personnel who support adult learners.
• In line with the Digital Education Action Plan strategic priority of enhancing digital competences for the digital transformation (European Commission, 2020), acaSTEMy will contribute to improving digital education across the EU by focusing on STEM teachers’ digital literacy, skills, and competence for all levels: from basic to advanced digital skills, during pre- and in-service education, in the context of formal and non-formal learning. The project will improve teachers’ capacity to use digital tools and content in pedagogically meaningful ways, and develop skills for teaching-learning processes including collaborative learning, computer use, and the use of computerized learning tools with learning support in STEM education, focusing on how digital technologies are used to enhance teaching and learning.
• Develop, pilot, and validate effective teaching-learning modules and micro-degree courses for STEM teacher competences on challenging matters of common concern, specifically related to the twin green and digital transitions, as well as to diversity in the classroom. This includes devising a strategy for the cross-consortium recognition of learning.
• acaSTEMy seeks to contribute to the ‘Teacher Academies’ goal of making mobility an essential component of pre-service and in-service STEM teacher education by designing a supportive, inspiring, and sustainable international framework for professional development throughout STEM teachers’ careers, including virtual, physical, and blended cooperation, co-supervision of Master theses, job shadowing, coaching, and mobility activities.
• Further, acaSTEMy will contribute to enhancing STEM teacher education practices and policies in Europe by pooling teachers’ and teacher education providers’ expertise for future policy design and by facilitating interactions with policymakers.
• Finally, an objective is enhancing and diversifying the competences and wellbeing of STEM teachers, and by extension, raising the attractiveness and value of the profession in society.

Papers

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The AcaSTEMy’s network will bring together providers of pre- and in-service teacher education, as well as practice schools from 8 countries. These will develop and test mobility models and programmes for effective and accessible professional learning. In addition, the partnership network includes STEM teacher associations, ministries of education and Academies of Sciences. These will provide input for developing a policy framework for purposeful and systematic teacher mobility and to inform broader science education policies at national and European levels.

Teaching materials

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