Kick-off Meeting Heidelberg

On 31.10. and 01.11.2019 the kick-off meeting of the project took place in Heidelberg (Germany).

Aims of the kick-off meeting were:

(1) Start with the developing of the differentiation concept (part of Intellectual Output 1)

(2) Planning the manual (Intellectual Output 1)

(3) Developing a semi-structured interview to analyse the possibilities and limitations of supporting differentiation activities in inquiry-based learning with a focus on experimentation at school

 

During the meeting details of the differentiation concept were discussed (What exactly is an experiment? Which steps are included in the inquiry-cycle?), concrete dates for the project meetings and classroom observations were arranged, criteria of the classroom observations discussed and an interview guide for the semi-structured interviews was developed.

Members of the project meeting were: Pasi Nieminen (University Jyväskyla, Finland), Antti Lehtinen (University Jyväskyla, Finland), Iris Schiffl (University Salzburg Austria), Lisa Virtbauer (University Salzburg, Austria), Nikoletta Xenofontos (University of Cyprus), Marios Papaevripidou (University of Cyprus), Martina Schuhknecht (Gemeinschaftsschule Innenstadt Ludwigsburg, partner school in Germany), Susanne Rohrmann (University of Education Heidelberg, Germany), Armin Baur (University of Education Heidelberg, Germany)