TEACHER TRAINING IN THE SCIENTIFIC FIELD THROUGH ROBOTICS ACTIVITIES: SOME EXPERIENCES FROM ITALY & SPAIN.

Abstract

S ince December 2006 the authors have started to work with five other partners -Aspete (Greece), IUFM (France), UP-RO (Romania), CUNI (Czeck Republic), and IT+Robotics (Italy)- in the TERECOP project (Teacher Education on Robotics-Enhanced Constructivist Pedagogical Methods, http://www.terecop.eu/). The overall aim of the project is to develop a framework for teacher education courses in order to enable teachers to implement the robotics-enhanced constructivist learning in school classrooms, and report experiences from the implementation of this framework. In this work we present some relevant results of 4 concrete actions (pilot training courses, discovery film and First Lego League) that have been carried out in Italy and in Spain.