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Fully-funded Teacher Training Courses in March-June 2012 |
The European Hands-On Universe (EU-HOU) project is offering new 5-day training sessions on 'Bringing Frontline interactive astronomy to the classroom' and 2-day seminars on radio astronomy to all interested teachers.
The dates and links to more information on these courses can be found on this page : http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=184
If you are a teacher from the UK, you can apply to the British Council for funding to attend these courses/seminars. The funding will cover everything - course cost, accommodation, subsistence and travel.
If you are a teacher from outside the UK you can apply for funding from your Comenius National Agency. |
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Fully-funded Teacher Training Courses in March/April 2012 |
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The European Hands-On Universe (EU-HOU) project is offering new 5-day training sessions on 'Bringing Frontline interactive astronomy to the classroom' and 2-day seminars on radio astronomy to all interested teachers. The dates and links to more information on these courses can be found on this page : http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=184 If you are a teacher from the UK, you can apply to the British Council for funding to attend these courses/seminars. The funding will cover everything - course cost, accommodation, subsistence and travel. If you are a teacher from outside the UK you can apply for funding from your Comenius National Agency. |
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X-Ray outburst observed by schools across Europe |
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Astronomers from Wales and the Netherlands, in collaboration with five schools from the UK and Poland, have used eight telescopes simultaneously to study the strange behaviour of an X-ray binary star system. |
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Faulkes Telescope Team hold successful training session for teachers across the Atlantic! |
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The Faulkes Telescope Team recently held a very successful online training session with teachers from the US. Using the Elluminate Live! online collaboration system, Dr Paul Roche and Dr Sarah Roberts were able to hold a virtual training workshop with 14 teachers from across New York State, explaining how they could get involved with the FT project, and demonstrating the Stellarium and SalsaJ software packages for planning an observing session and making colour images. |
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3rd successful COMENIUS-funded Teacher Training Session - Torun, Poland |
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The 3rd COMENIUS-funded EU-HOU training session was held this may, in Torun, Poland, and has been very successful !
Despite the Swedish volcano eruption, 29 teachers from 13 European countries attended the session held at the Institute of Physics in Torun. In addition, HOU Staff consisted in 9 trainers, assisted by 12 persons from the Local Organising Committee.
The days consisted of a number of hands-on workshops and talks aimed at showing the educators freely available astronomical resources which can be used in their classrooms back home to help stimulate their pupil’s interest and enthusiasm in science.
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Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) and Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) |
The first announcement for this year's GHOU conference has been announced. Held in Garching, Germany, Aug. 1-7 (inclusive), the conference will also include a teacher training workshop. Details can be found in the announcement below:
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