Work package n°4 - Methodology and Teachers’ Toolkit
Start Date
01/04/2024
End Date
30/04/2025
Methodology and Teachers’ Toolkit main result is a methodology and a teachers’ toolkit that will provide guides and video-how-toes on how to use and control the tele-robot for virtual presence visits in cultural institutions like museums. The output for this intellectual product aims at straightening the teacher’s skills and knowledge to utilize innovative approaches to the traditional or distance classroom settings. It aims at defining specific case studies focusing on moderns learning/teaching methods and STEM based educational content. It will ease knowledge transfer between teacher and student via telepresence, or virtual presence. It will reduce the traveling experience for visits to the museum expositions, thus providing accessibility and inclusiveness.
Activity 1: Workshop (Bulgaria)
Team integration and knowledge exchange
Involves all participants to set up the innovative process and provide synergies between the institution, shared expectations, agreed upon, yet diversity-friendly process, and quality focus.
Activity 2: Scope definition (North Macedonia)
Detailed Integrated Scope Definition
Boost knowledge sharing, and ensure common understanding and team focus.
Detailed written specifications on the stakeholders’ needs and expectations and the main WP features to address them.
Participation of at least two researchers from university partners and one from the schools and museums.
Activity 3: Implementation (Spain)
Methodology and Teachers’ Toolkit – alpha
Contributes to achieving the main WP objectives by creating the planned tool. It builds new digital capacity in all involved institutions by creating a methodology and teacher toolkit to support teachers and trainers from all educational level in integrating the project innovation products (the ST(R)EAM IT platform) in day-to-day class experience. It contributes to the development of new digital content, technologies, and practices and promotes STEM by example. It can fast-forward the process of transition of the teaching staff from traditional slide-based fact presentation to using this innovative platform for tele-observation, interaction, and research. It promotes further inquiry-based learning (an educational innovation that is known to improve the motivation in VET and secondary school students). The Teacher’s Toolkit provides inclusiveness, overcoming barriers and limitations typical for the teachers’ community in the Balkan region, related to education, geographical, social, and economic barriers.
Create an alpha version of the product as described in details above.
Implementation sub-activity 1: Development of User Guide Output: User Guide
Implementation sub-activity 2: Development of Video guide Output: Video Guide
Implementation sub-activity 3: Guidelines for creating of a sequence list of exhibits Output: Guidelines
Implementation sub-activity 4: Guide lines for creating sequence list of Videos and text Output: Guidelines
Implementation sub-activity 5: Guide lines for creating a lesson plan Output: Guidelines
Implementation sub-activity 6: Development of Demo lessons Output: Guidelines
Activity 4: Test and validation (Bulgaria)
Methodology and Teachers’ Toolkit – final
Help boost quality
The final version of the WP product
Participation of at least two researchers from university partners and three from the schools and museums.
Activity 5: Pilot activities (Bulgaria)
An integrated pilot version of the WP results in the partner institutions
Help move the results from the lab to the real world. Make them available to the target groups and the public.
Integration of the results in the partner institution and preparing a version for public use.
Participation of at least 3 researchers from the university and 10 from the schools and 5 from the museums