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How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills
Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima
Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the learning process. While hands-on activities, labs and projects are moments when students are active, the learning benefits can be amplified with coaching strategies. This activity will enable studen ...
EPFL2024A Bebras Computational Thinking (ABC-Thinking) program for primary school: Evaluation using the competent computational thinking test
Bebras tasks are considered to develop Computational Thinking (CT) and are currently used for this purpose in many studies. However, the relationship between Bebras tasks and CT is recent and, given the scarcity of validated instruments for assessing CT th ...
New York2024Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives
Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima
Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...
TU Dublin2023FROM GROUP WORK TO TEAM WORK: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THREE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS
Addressing the complex challenges of sustainability demands for good teamwork abilities for future technicians and engineers. In our three institutions we adopted project-based learning to facilitate the development of these skills – but is this enough? Si ...
2023Planned, taught, learnt: analysis of transversal skills through curriculum using portfolio
Helena Kovacs, Alexandra Corina Niculescu, Tamara Milosevic
There is an everlasting effort in education to successfully ensure that the intended learning objectives are clearly taught and effectively learnt at the end of the educational cycle. This has been especially difficult in teaching and learning complex sets ...
TU Dublin2023OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science
Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Dou Du
In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...
ELSEVIER2023Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform
Over the past few decades, the debates have shifted from whether to how Computer Science (CS) should be introduced into formal education. Given the diverse ways to introduce CS into formal education, and the struggles many countries have faced, considerabl ...
EPFL2023The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content
Francesco Mondada, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy
Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...
2022Emergency adaptation to distance learning: no magic bullet, but where there’s a will, there’s a way
Whilst, in many countries, the sudden enforced transfer to large-scale distance learning in state schools as a result of COVID_19 lockdown measures caused turmoil, it also provided an unprecedented opportunity to understand more about key factors associate ...
2022The importance/role of education in chemical engineering
Chemical engineering as a skilled profession depends on the competencies of the individuals practicing it. Formal teaching of chemical engineering at universities only started in the 19th century. Informally, the subject has been in existence at least sinc ...
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