Session Information
27 SES 07 A, Teaching Practices in Higher Education
Paper/Poster Session
Contribution
Interdisciplinar and interlevels proposal for the Secondary teaching trainning , either through a interdisciplinar Seminar linked to CTIF (formed by 12 teachers of diferent disciplines: Geographical and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Chemistry and Phisics, Geology and Biology) or through a Innovation Project ( in which teachers of the University of Alcala take part) whose main goal is to promote the interaction among the teachers and students of both levels: Secondary and University, to contribute to the transition from a more traditional concept of the teaching training into a linked view to the longlife education as Teaching Professional Development, therefore, very closed to the teaching innovation. Simultaneously, in current political and socialeconocmics frame, the innovation and motivation for teachers and students represent a huge challenge for the educational improvement, that`s why the creation of networks and learning communities, due to the collaboration among different levels and disciplines , is a key piece for the relevant learning development and contextualized. The objective of this work is to go deep into generated procecces and into their contributtions to the quality of learning by both educational agents from their own voices.
On the one hand, the interdisciplinar Seminar linked to CTIF, coordinated by the teacher Elena Zapatero Cabañas, communicator too, is formed by a group of 12 teachers of Secondary Education of the Atenea High School of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), from different disciplines, named above. During 75 hours of work, 35 in groups, the main objectives consist on to develop the cooperative work habit among teachers of Secondary level and to motivate to teachers and student through the interdisciplinar method for contents and news activities as the participation on to an external Contest organized by the Madrid Community or National and International Phases. About 3 disciplines: Statistical and Cartographical contests, we have had a succesful experience (International prize got) for the last 7 years and Astronomy Contest.
On the other hand, the Innovation Project of the University of Alcalá is carried on by a multidisciplinar (Sciences, Technologies and Engineering but not Social Science) team of teachers too, from both levels: University and Secondary. The composition is: 5 teachers of Mathematics, Phisics and Telecommunications Engineering Departments, 3 of them works only for the University, while the other 2 works, simultaneously, in Secondary and University levels. The 2 last teach Maths Didactics Subject in the Master of Secondary Teacher Training and during 2011/12 they implemented a Innovation Project about Statistics Didactic, some students of Master collaborated with them in their Secondary clasrooms, as coordinators of small groups of Secondary students in order to work for the participation in Contests. The 2 teachers of Engineering have organized the Robotics Contests (both levels: University and Secondary) of the University of Alcalá for 15 years. The news is that during the current course their students of Engineering work as coordinators of Secondary students pairs to participate in Robotics Contest.
As a result , these two groups of teachers interact one each other in a feedback process, as well as the groups of students from Secondary and University levels. In this way, teacher-student links included, a educative network, as a learning community, is being generated by the result of collaboration and interaction among teachers of Innovation Project, Seminar teachers, students of Máster and Degree.
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References
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