The European TEMI Project Involves Italian Teachers : First Outcomes

The aim of the European project TEMI (Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated) is to help transform science and mathematics teaching practice in Europe, by giving teachers new skills to engage their students and exciting new resources together with the extended support needed to effectively introduce inquiry based learning into their classrooms. In the present work, we will illustrate the pilot training session, performed by the University of Milan and addressed to a cohort of 14 secondary school teachers. During the session, teachers directly experienced a guided inquiry IBSE and became familiar with the method that they would subsequently implement with their students. Here we will discuss strengths and weaknesses of the pilot cohort in order to refine the method implemented in the first cohort and to improve the results of the subsequent sessions planned by the project. Besides, we propose some results of the final test given to teachers to get an evaluation of the first training cohort.