Abstract:
The paper presents pilot experiences related to an educational methodology
developed within the European Innovative Teacher (I*Teach) project
for building ICT-enhanced skills [1]. The methodology is presented in the context
of a workshop for teachers in mathematics and informatics with a special
focus on enhancing presentation skills. The authors share their experience in
treating the very workshop as a project with specific stages - analyzing the
audience’s interests, developing a presentation scenario around a leading metaphor
in harmony with the setting, distributing different roles among the presenters,
involving the audience in an active reasoning and sharing. Thus the
workshop has demonstrated at a meta-level how the collective intelligence of
teachers could be harnessed in action. The main message is: such an approach
makes teachers feel like co-creators of the I*Teach project´s ideas and teachers
need only a bit of praise or encouragement to recognize themselves as
innovative teachers.
