Building and Developing a Teachers’ Community Based on the PROFILES Science Education Network
Building and Developing a Teachers’ Community Based on the PROFILES Science Education Network

Author(s): Gabriel Gorghiu, Laura Monica Gorghiu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Science education; Science teachers’ network; PROFILES Project
Summary/Abstract: At present, Science teachers’ networks offer proper environments for exchanging ideas and good practices, but also for promoting knowledge. In Europe, such networks have been established in the past, but in Romania, Science teachers’ networks are relative new, just few attempts at local level being recorded. Recently, a successful network has been set up in the frame of the FP7 European Research Project “PROFILES - Professional Reflection-Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science”. The PROFILES network has been set up during the implementation of the accredited “PROFILES - Education through Science” CPD programme, started in spring 2011 with 32 members. The paper presents the steps followed by the PROFILES team to create the nucleus of a Science Teachers network, to develop the number of network members and to maintain the connection between them after the PROFILES project end.

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