NI ITT Secondary Summer School at National STEM Learning Centre NB217 / A21

Building on the success of the teacher summer schools STEM Learning ran last year, and with the support of our ENTHUSE partners, we are able to offer a suite of three-day summer schools for trainee teachers with Northern Ireland ITT providers at the National STEM Learning Centre in York. The summer schools have a focus on practical science teaching.

Practical sessions will include core practical activities and techniques, as well as the underlying pedagogical approaches, along with effective ways to help teach “the tricky bits”. Classroom organisation and alternative, cheaper/easier ways to achieve the learning outcomes.

Central to the sessions are purposeful classroom practical science, as well as taking science outdoors and using the wider school environment. Embedding pragmatic health and safety is core to developing science teaching; throughout all the sessions H&S will be developed as a means to enable better practical science for students and teachers.

Throughout the course, appropriate investigative sciences, including enquiry and working scientifically, will be used to help teachers develop students own understanding of applying techniques and subject knowledge in less familiar applications.

Time will be made to explore York, as well as to socialise and network in the evenings, along with opportunities to engage with STEM Ambassadors and other support programmes.

Please note that reasonable travel expenses will be covered in compliance with STEM Learning's expenses policy. Please do not book any travel to York until you have been contacted by the course organiser.