Saturday Sep 22nd at 10h30 - 11h30

4A MARZANO: ‘WHAT WORKS IN SCHOOLS?’
Workshop. Presenters: Herman Hoedemaker and Anton de Vries (NL)
Target audience: Primary, Secondary, Upper Secondary

While many differences in student achievement are due to the students themselves - their home life, prior knowledge, and motivation - the good news is that there’s a lot that schools and teachers can do to improve student achievement. After conducting a meta-analysis of 35 years of educational research, Robert Marzano has identified 11 factors that have the greatest effect on student achievement. In this workshop we will arrange discussions about factors, which are evidence based and have influence on the student achievement.

4B QUALITY OF SCHOOLS 2010 – THE SYNEVA DECLARATION
Workshop. Presenter: Ferdinand Patscheider (IT)
Target audience: General

The Final Declaration of the Comenius 3 Network SYNEVA - "Synergy between Internal and External Evaluation and Its Impacts on Learning and Teaching" - will be presented and discussed with the participants. Questions like "What is the shared common ground?", "What pre-conditions are necessary for synergy between internal and external evaluation to occur?", "What are the roles and responsibilities of all agents involved in the evaluation processes?" etc. will be explored. The participants' experiences and the different educational contexts define the meaning of the Declaration. Sharing them will lead to new learning, i.e. improved practice in the field of learning and teaching.

4C VALUE QUESTIONS IN CLASSROOMS – ARE THERE TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY?
Workshop. Presenter: Bernd Hainmüller (DE)
Target audience: General

Value education has become an increasingly discussed topic in the fields of psychology and education but there is no evidence to show that it has made an impact in teacher education. Media reports of increases in violent juvenile crime, rates of teenage pregnancy and suicide have caused many commentators to declare a “value crisis” in the western society. While not all social concerns in classrooms are value related in nature and mostly have complex origins, there is a growing trend towards linking the solution of these problems to the teaching of “moral”, “ethical” or “philosophical” subjects. This seems to be something of a step back to the old “character” education, which dominated schools in the 19th century. Research shows that high quality teachers need a sound conceptual and practical understanding of different value systems in the more and more multicultural classrooms. Communication on minority rights, on religious beliefs, on racist declarations and attitudes, on the likes and dislikes of students is not easy to handle. And there are not many tools developed, which could help to broaden the sensitivity for this issue. The workshop will present some of these tools, developed in a recently finished Comenius 2.1. project with 7 european countries.

4D PUPIL VOICE AND THE LEARNING JOURNEY: HOW GIVING PUPILS A VOICE CAN DEVELOP GOOD TEACHING AND LEARNING
Workshop. Presenters: Helen Masani, Linda Boyd, Lesley Burnett, Honour Timlin (UK)
Target audience: Primary, Secondary

Two years ago, two teachers from the East Sussex Language and Learning Support Service presented some initial work on using a Pupil Voice questionnaire. The materials have been developed and extended and now include some designed specifically for younger pupils and those with language and communication difficulties. The materials are proving to be a very useful tool for promoting the inclusion of all pupils. There are many exciting projects using the materials in schools. This workshop will give a brief overview of the materials and discuss some of the ways in which they have been used in schools to provide information about the views of individual pupils. They have also been used to inform whole school policy.

Saturday Sep 22nd at 11h45 - 12h45

5A CREATIVITY AND MOULDABLE MATERIALS
Lecture. Presenter: Keith Good (UK)
Target audience: General

The emphasis will be on creativity in design and technology and practical, low cost ideas for the classroom. Children should work with mouldable materials because they are easy to use, versatile, and a major part of their environment. Children play with moulded toys, sit on moulded chairs, cross moulded bridges, make moulded sandcastles and eat moulded food. Some ideas will be taken from Keith’s Moulding Materials book, others have been developed since publication. Not all mouldable materials are suitable for children but those featured offer many exciting possibilities. Watch out for Keith’s combination of salt dough and electrics!

5B ARE WE THERE YET? NO, THERE’S STILL SOME WAY TO GO
Lecture. Presenters: Bill Goddard and John Greenacre (UK)
Target audience: Primary, Secondary

This presentation will be focused on an on-going teacher-led, cross-curriculum, action research project for pupils aged 12-13 years of age in UK secondary age range schools. Teachers from a range of traditional school subject areas have been teaching their subjects through a focus on Astronomy and we will explore the preparation, practice, and extended activity which has been derived from this initiative. In addition to the impact this approach has on teaching and on the pupils we will also identify the use of such an initiative for professional development of teachers.

5C CREATING INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS FOR THE FUTURE
Workshop. Presenters: Gerard de Kruif (NL) and Francia Kinchingon (UK)
Target audience: Higher Education

Our aim is to create teachers who are able to work effectively in Europe, and who are innovative and mobile across European Institutions of Higher Education.

This workshop explores "The Case of Haagse Hogeschool Dept of teacher training" which offers a three month international course for students on a teacher training programme where they are required to evidence and develop prescribed European competences for teachers. Within this course we focus on these young educators as future European teachers.

We will share our research and findings on the views and reflections of the students who joined this course and also on the impact that this course has had on them as education professionals once they completed their studies.

5D HOW TO LINK BETWEEN STAGES OF EDUCATION
Lecture. Presenters: Mona Sennmark and Stefan Pettersson (SE)
Target audience: Pre-school, Primary, Secondary

Saturday Sep 22nd at 14h00 - 15h00

6A ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS AND TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE STUDY
Paper. Presenter: Fernando Albuquerque Costa
Target audience: General

Nowadays, the demands imposed on the school and its privileged agents, the teachers, are more and more complex. Teachers are given the enormous task of preparing pupils for the society and economy of knowledge, in both of which they will have to be learners throughout their lives. We know that teacher quality is the variable which, alone, has more effect on the learning experience of pupils, even though it does not, in itself, guarantee the quality of teaching and learning at school (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Darling-Hammond e Snyder, 2000). In other hand portfolios and electronic portfolios could be an very interesting strategy for learning and for professional development of teachers as well.

6B EVALUATION – MARKETING OR A TOOL FOR LEARNING?
Workshop. Presenters: Anne Buhl Jørgensen and Kenneth Højland (DK)
Target audience: Primary, Secondary, Upper Secondary

Everywhere in all learning environments there is an increasing demand for documentation. One of the issues in focus is evaluation. Not bad at all - but how do we use it and for what purpose? In this workshop we want to discuss whether evaluation is used as a tool for marketing or it is used as a tool for learning. Do we use evaluation to look at the learner as a consumer, who wants to get the best offer or the cheapest, or do we use the evaluation to look at the learner and consider how we prepare the best learning environment and the best teaching?

6D ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: CREATING NEW KNOWLEDGE
Workshop. Presenters: Bill Goddard and Francia Kinchington (UK)
Target audience: General

This presentation will focus on the potential for advanced professional development of teachers, enabling them to acquire the research skills to create original knowledge. Real histories of where and how this has been developed over recent years will be discussed, exploring the institutional and personal characteristics of teachers and students involved. The impact on the learner, the school environment and the school as an institution will be explored together with the potential for creativity and advanced professional development of the education profession.