Guide
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Introduction
to Trainers' Guide
The Overview section at the
beginning of these materials
gave some brief information about the nature of the innovations and the
research, and about the workshop materials. These ideas are expanded on
below with references to the trainers’ Briefing
Sheets and the teachers’ Activity
Resources
where more information can be found. These notes also address the
rationale
of the workshops, the aims and structure of each workshop, and include
detailed notes on the individual activities.
In STTIS's research
framework any act of communication
is necessarily transformative. Communications are not simply 'received'
but are re-made, re-constituted, transformed by the receiver. The
project's
main objective is to investigate science teachers' transformations of
educational
innovations. Small-scale intensive studies in the participant
countries
have led to the elaboration of some rules of transformation of
innovation
and in the development of relevant materials for teacher training.
Further
information about the STTIS project can be found in Briefing
sheet 1 ‘About the STTIS project’.
These training
materials are based on research
into the nature of teachers’ transformations when using computer models
and simulations.
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Teaching with computer models