CIRCE - A CLASSICS & ICT RESOURCE COURSE FOR EUROPE
TYPE OF TRAINING ACTIVITY
TRAINING AIMED AT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVING
A GRANT FOR EITHER COMENIUS OR GRUNDTVIG TARGET GROUPS
ORIGIN OF THE TRAINING
COURSE RESULTING FROM AN LLP OR PREVIOUS SOCRATES PROJECT (COMENIUS, LINGUA, GRUNDTVIG, MINERVA)
LLP OR SOCRATES PROJECT NO. :
112066-CP-1-2003-1-BE-COMENIUS-C21
THEMATIC FIELD OF THE TRAINING
GENERAL IN-SERVICE TRAINING
ICT - Information and communication technologies
Pedagogy and didactics
LANGUAGES USED FOR THE TRAINING
MAIN LANGUAGE:
English
LANGUAGE VERSION(S) IN WHICH MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED:
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
EDUCATION SECTOR OF THE TRAINING PARTICIPANTS
SCHOOL AND PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
General secondary
ADULT EDUCATION
Adult education provider
Higher education institution offering outreach courses for adults
TARGET AUDIENCE
Teachers (Pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
Teacher trainers
Inspectors
Headteachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education
INSTITUTION ORGANISING THE TRAINING
NAME OF THE ORGANISATION:
Het Gemeenschapsonderwijs
STREET AND NUMBER:
Emile Jacqmainlaan 20
POSTCODE:
1000 -
TOWN / CITY:
Brussel
COUNTRY:
Belgium
WEBSITE:
http://www.gemeenschapsonderwijs.be
ORGANISER/S OF THE TRAINING:
PERSON 1:
Jens Vermeersch
TEL NR:
+32 2 790 95 98
FAX NR:
+32 2 790 97 97
EMAIL:
jvermeer@rago.be
PERSON 2:
Katrien Lehouck
TEL NR:
+32 2 790 96 89
FAX NR:
+32 2 790 97 97
EMAIL:
katrien.lehouck@rago.be
FULL DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING CONTENTS
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING: (EN)
Preparation
The participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire about their background (school/organisation, teaching experience (subjects), skills in English, ICT skills and experience). Furthermore the participants will have access to the CIRCE manual on teaching Classics with ICT as well as to the resources on the CIRCE web site www.circe.be. Hands-on training materials will be given out during the course.
Objectives
To enable teachers in Classics all over Europe to exploit the ICT resources available for their teaching of Ancient Greek and/or Latin and/or Classical Civilisation and to help create a new learning environment for Classics with ICT. Basic skills will be trained along with more advanced exercises and the new pedagogical and didactic approach enabled by ICT will be addressed.
Methodology
Various topics from the CIRCE manual will be presented and followed up by workshops using computers to train various skills and point out the resources available for Classics (different kinds of software, internet resources, various databases, electronic dictionaries etc.). All will be put into in a pedagogical and didactic frame.
Follow-up
A lesson plan created by the participant during the course can - after testing in class - be added to the lesson plan section of the project website. The website www.circe.be will provide a forum for the participants to discuss the in-service training after it has ended and to further exchange experiences and materials.
PROGRAMME OF THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES (DAY BY DAY)
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING:
Mo 30/07/07: Arrival, welcome, presentation
Tue, 31/07/07: Integration of ICT into Classics teaching
Instructions and hands-on tasks on Word processing
General knowledge of picture processing
Searching the internet
Copyright issues
Each day ends with a plenary session, during which the day’s results are presented/ participants are given the opportunity to talk about examples of ‘good practice’ with ICT
Wed, 01/08/07: Software for Classics
Presentation of different kinds of software: quizfaber or similar, Perseus, font issues, presentation software
Thu, 02/8/07: Web pages and websites
Briefing on the creation of web pages and web sites
Creation the delegates' own web pages
Revision of the techniques of picture processing.
Fri, 03/08/07: The Classical Challenge: The ancient world in modern teaching. Creation of teaching materials for use across the web.
The participants are divided into two groups according to their own wishes. One group will approach the subject of the day in a more technically advanced manner, using Macromedia Director, while the second group will take a more general didactical approach.
Programme for Group A: The technical challenge (only for advanced users)
Creation of software resources. Director as a tool,Shockwave, CD-ROM creation, basic programming skills.
Programme for Group B: The didactic challenge for Classics through the web
Different ways of learning: e-learning, online learning, the JiTT concept, WebQuest, networking projects
Creation of a lesson plan
Sat, 04/08/07: Drills and exercises, monitoring and assessment of student progress
Monitoring and assessment of student progress
Stimulating further European cooperation among participants
Course evaluation
Sun, 05/08/07
Departure
A cultural programme with visit to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen will be provided. Minor changes may occur in time schedule of the progra
TYPE OF CERTIFICATION OF ATTENDANCE AWARDED
IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRAINING:
A certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input
ENGLISH:
A certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input