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Educating the Educators

April 18th 2014: The board of the conference 'Educating the Educators' invites everyone to submit proposals for research or practice-oriented contributions to be given during the conference. mascil is hosting the conference which will take place from December 15th to December 16th 2014 at the University of Duisburg-Essen in cooperation with the DZLM (German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education). Further supporters are the University of Education Freiburg, the University Duisburg-Essen and the EMS (European Mathematical Society). The dedaline for submission of proposals is Friday, May 30th 2014.

Submission of proposals

To be able to submit your proposal, which should be written in English, please have a look at the submission guidelines. It is possible to submit proposals for paper presentations, posters or demonstrations, such as a simulation of a professional development situation, demonstration of materials or demonstration of e-learning support platforms.

'Educating the Educators' is the first international conference specifically devoted to the topic of educating the educators such as teachers, teacher educators, the educators of teacher educators as well as multipliers and institutions engaged in teacher professional development. It will serve as a lever and platform for international exchange about innovative teaching concepts like inquiry-based learning.

Discussing concepts of sacling-up teacher professional development

The international conference will connect researchers and practitioners engaged in the field of maths and science education in order to discuss concepts of scaling-up teacher professional development. The conference will approach the subject from the perspectives of: 1. individual countries and their particularities, 2. different target-groups and their needs (policy makers, educators of teacher educators) and 3. the end-users such as teacher educators, teachers and their everyday classroom practice.

The conference will be rounded out with keynote lectures, a poster session and a closing plenary discussion based on the reports of track rapporteurs. The main target groups of the conference are teacher educators and researchers, multipliers and relevant networks, educators of multipliers and teacher educators, policy makers, teacher professional development centres, maths and science education support centres, presidents as well as heads of professional development institutions or centres and relevant networks.

For further details and updated information as well as registration formalities visit the conference homepage at: http://educating-the-educators.ph-freiburg.de