WP4-Teacher Training 2-Turkey

Day 1, Oct 21st, 2024

The third year of the SEN Power https://sen-power.eu/  project started with a teacher training event hosted by Antalya Provincial Directorate of National Education. Our hosts organized the training sessions to take place in a lovely spacious room branded and decorated to create a positive and inspiring atmosphere.

All training sessions were planned as simulations of the trainings the teachers would implement with their students during school year 2024/25 to pilot the resources from the two toolkits which were created by the consortium – the Mathematics for all toolkit (M4ALL) and the Nature Studies for all (NS4ALL) toolkit.

As suggested in the toolkits, we started with a Fears and Expectations session, and continued with warm-up activities meant to energize the participants, make them curious and eager to participate in the training sessions; there were activities aimed at getting-to-know each other and getting-to-know yourself, and team building activities.

Day 2, Oct 22nd, 2024

The second day of the training was about presenting the topics from the “Mathamatics for All”  and „Nature Studies for All” toolkits. But because students are expected to work collaboratively in the lessons, help each other and make the most of each other’s abilities and skills, we started the training with a couple of team building activities to enhance cooperation. The 3 international teams had the task to design the tallest tower made of plasticine and tooth picks. Some had issues with colapsing towers, rebuilt and tried to make them more stable, struggled with time management, etc., but finally, we had a winner: WELL DONE, TEAM 1!

Another activity the teachers were involved in was about developing skills to do pair work and have coordination within the pair – important life skills all people need.

It was a long working day with the following topics from the M4ALL and NS4ALL toolkits being presented too:

The day continued with visits to Perge and Aspendos. We dipped back in ancient Roman times and enjoyed every moment of the visits. It was a fabulous second day of the training! Thank you everybody for the active participation and a big thank you to Antalya Directorate of Education for the organization of the cultural programme.

Day 3, Oct 23rd, 2024

On the third day of the training teachers stepped in the shoes of students and participated in the presentation of topics from the “Mathamatics for All” tool kit.

The first topic was from the mathematicis curriculum for grade 2 “A two-digit number as the sum of tens and units” https://sen-power.eu/atividades/imp_act.php?reg=751&lingua=en&ene=32&rel=30 We started with mathematical jokes, and here is one for you to answer: Seven is an odd number. How can you do so that it is not an even number any more?

We worked with manipulatives to present 2-digit numbers in different ways as sums of tens and units and to learn the meaning of the position of a digit in a number.

All the suggested steps were practical and exlained the subject in a visual and easy-to-understand way.

The second topic also belonged to grade 2 Mathematics curriculum “Types of triangles based on the length of their sides; perimeter of a triangle.” https://sen-power.eu/atividades/imp_act.php?reg=753&lingua=en&ene=34&rel=31

We started with an energizer closely linked to the topic of the lesson. Have a look at the photos and make your guesses what we were instructed to do.

We were lucky to have the teacher who designed the lesson plan with us in Antalya. Thank you, Toni, for the creative activities you have designed and the well-structured lesson plan!

We had fun learning about equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles, but also learning from each other, as it happens in Erasmus+ project and cooperative teaching and learning.

The day continued with presentation of two topics developed by the Antalya provincial directorate of education for grade 4 students:

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The last topic of this long, but interesting, working day, was presented by our Portuguese partners form Instituto Politecnico de Santarem. The lesson they developed is from the grade 3 curriculum in Mathematics in Portugal. You can read the lesson plan and the accompanying materials on the project website: Figure operations: Rotation https://sen-power.eu/atividades/imp_act.php?reg=759&lingua=en&ene=46&rel=41

Participants were involved in numerous hands-on activities taking them to the core idea of rotation as a figure operation – a topic which is rather difficult to teach and understand by most students, and, sometimes, for teachers. However, with the suggested activities it was easy to grasp it, and it was real fun!

Day 4, Oct 24th, 2024

Highlights for the working sessions in Day 4 of the training. All topics were interesting and real fun to do! We even learned to dance a Turkish national dance during the coffee break!

Nature studies, grade 1, lesson “Body Security: Risk behaviours for individual and collective health and safety” https://sen-power.eu/atividades1/imp_act.php?reg=864&lingua=en&ene=39&rel=42

Day 5, Oct 25th, 2024

Highlights of the presentation of lesson plans during the last day of the training – there was something for everybody – some fun activities, even for teachers, and definitely for students, and some more challenging ones that needed more concentration. Lesson plans were from the Nature Studies for All and Mathematics for All toolkits.

NS4ALL (grade 4) “Classification of animals – invertebrates and vertebrates: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals” https://sen-power.eu/atividades1/imp_act.php?reg=890&lingua=en&ene=3&rel=6  

The five days of the training event, unfortunately, passed by so quickly and we had to part. The final session was devoted to instructions about the following steps of the teams during school year 2024/25 – the implementation of the designed lesson plans from the two tool kits – Mathematics for all and Nature studies for all, each of them comprising 46 topics form the national curricula in the two subjects in Bulgaria, Portugal and Turkey.

Thank you, everybody, for the active participation in the sessions and good luck in the validation trainings during the school year.

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