All three BIT variants follow the same blended structure. They differ only in the focus modules, which are woven into the virtual sessions and the on-site week.
\n| Phase | \nTiming | \nWorkload | \nSetting | \n
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual kick-off | \n2–4 weeks before the on-site week | \n3 h | \nOnline | \n
| Preparatory phase | \nBetween the kick-off and the on-site week | \n– | \nSelf-study | \n
| On-site week | \nMonday to Friday | \n28.5 h | \nOn-site, residential | \n
| Classroom implementation | \nBetween the on-site week and the follow-up | \n– | \nParticipants' own schools PRO: virtual coaching in small groups | \n
| Virtual follow-up | \n4–8 weeks after the on-site week | \n3 h | \nOnline | \n
| Total | \n\n | 34.5 h | \n\n |
Virtual coaching in small groups during the classroom implementation phase is highly beneficial, but it is currently difficult to finance, as Erasmus+ course fees cover the on-site days only (→ Organisation & Funding).
\nThe workload is stated in hours. As there is no European credit system for continuing professional development, no ECTS credits are awarded.
\nThe virtual kick-off prepares participants for the preparatory phase: they get to know each other and the course and are introduced to socio-scientific issues and meta-scientific literacies (→ Virtual Modules).
\nParticipants explore socio-scientific issues that interest them, link them to the learning goals of their own subject, and select teaching materials to bring to the on-site week, for example a textbook activity they have already taught.
\nThe on-site week is the intensive core of the training. Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday and leave on Saturday, so that the programme can run from 09:00 to 17:00 with four 90-minute sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. On Wednesday, three sessions are followed by a cultural activity in the afternoon. Optional social events complement the programme: in the SciLMi pilots, welcome drinks on Sunday evening, organised at the participants' request, and a farewell dinner on Friday evening were very well received. The focus modules take up the Tuesday of the on-site week; the other days are shared by all BIT variants.
\nThe days follow a recurring rhythm. At the end of each day except Friday, when Week in Review looks back on the whole week, participants revisit its content in Going Meta and reflect on the methods they experienced from a teacher's perspective. In Today in Review, a short anonymous survey, they then indicate what worked well and what could be improved. The trainer team discusses this feedback in its evening meeting and adapts the next day accordingly (→ Trainer Team).
\nBy the end of the week, each participant has developed a lesson plan with a HOW activity and piloted the activity in their subject-specific team, and each SSI team has developed a cross-subject lesson sequence and presented it in Glow & Grow Together (→ Assignments & Assessment).
\nThe following schedule is one possible way of arranging the modules and their activities in the on-site week, tried and tested in the SciLMi pilots. The modules and activities have been deliberately designed to be flexible, so that course providers can rearrange, shorten, or combine them to suit their own course formats. For this reason, the description of each activity states which other activities it requires and for which activities it is required.
\n| Time | \nActivities | \n
|---|---|
| Monday | \n\n |
| 09:00–10:30 | \n• Welcome • → Living Map • → Wonderful Wendy • → Hello, Hola, Hallo • → Hopes & Fears | \n
| 10:30–11:00 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 11:00–12:30 | \n• → Sticky Issues • → Making SSI Stick to Your Subject • → SSI Speed-Dating | \n
| 12:30–13:30 | \nLunch break | \n
| 13:30–15:00 | \n• → (S)TEAMing Up • → Mind-Mapping SSI (1) • → SciLMi Puzzle (1) | \n
| 15:00–15:30 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 15:30–17:00 | \n• → SciLMi Puzzle (2) • → Going Meta • → Today in Review | \n
| Tuesday | \n\n |
| 09:00–10:30 | \n• → Making SciLMi Stick to Your Subject • → Dotting SciLMi • → Wiki'ing SciLMi | \n
| 10:30–11:00 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 11:00–12:30 | \n• → Focus 1 | \n
| 12:30–13:30 | \nLunch break | \n
| 13:30–15:00 | \n• → Focus 2 | \n
| 15:00–15:30 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 15:30–17:00 | \n• → Focus 3 • → Going Meta • → Today in Review | \n
| Wednesday | \n\n |
| 09:00–10:30 | \n• → Mind-Mapping SSI (2) | \n
| 10:30–11:00 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 11:00–12:30 | \n• → SciLMifying Lessons ◦ Introduction ◦ → Drafting the Lesson Flow | \n
| 12:30–13:30 | \nLunch break | \n
| 13:30–15:00 | \n• → Four Corners • → Diversity & Inclusion • → UDL Scenarios • → Going Meta • → Today in Review | \n
| From 15:00 | \nCultural activity | \n
| Thursday | \n\n |
| 09:00–10:30 | \n• → SciLMifying Lessons ◦ → Activity Instructions with Bloom's Verbs ◦ → Designing the HOW Activity • → Wiki'ing Inclusion | \n
| 10:30–11:00 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 11:00–12:30 | \n• → SciLMifying Lessons ◦ → Mind the Gap ◦ → Bridging Gaps: SSI Team Feedback | \n
| 12:30–13:30 | \nLunch break | \n
| 13:30–15:00 | \n• → Piloting & Polishing HOW Activities | \n
| 15:00–15:30 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 15:30–17:00 | \n• → Erasmus+ Opportunities • → SciLMifying Colleagues (aka Mingle It Up) • → Going Meta • → Today in Review | \n
| Friday | \n\n |
| 09:00–10:30 | \n• Finalising Lesson Plans, HOW Activities & SSI Maps | \n
| 10:30–11:00 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 11:00–12:30 | \n• Finalising Lesson Plans, HOW Activities & SSI Maps | \n
| 12:30–13:30 | \nLunch break | \n
| 13:30–15:00 | \n• → Glow & Grow Together | \n
| 15:00–15:30 | \nCoffee break | \n
| 15:30–17:00 | \n• → Week in Review | \n
| \n | Critical Thinking | \nDigital Media and Information Literacies | \nInclusive Classrooms | \n
|---|---|---|---|
| Focus 1 | \n• → Mapping Critical Thinking | \n• → Challenges & Opportunities • → What You See Is All There Is? | \n• → Working with Visuals | \n
| Focus 2 | \n• → Critical Thinking in SciLMi • → Anchor Story: Vaccination | \n• → What's the Catch? | \n• → UDL in Textbook Activities | \n
| Focus 3 | \n• → Role Play: Vaccination | \n• → Convincing or Well-Founded? • → Close to Home | \n• → Differentiation Matrix • → The Balancing Act of Diversity | \n
Short energisers open the morning and afternoon sessions (→ Energisers).
\nParticipants implement their lesson plans in their own classrooms, ideally together with colleagues from other subjects at their school, and revise them on the basis of their experience.
\nPRO: Virtual coaching in small groups supports participants in this phase, as cross-subject collaboration that works well during the training often proves hard to continue back at school.
The virtual follow-up brings the whole group together again to share implementation experiences and to revisit cross-subject collaboration after the return to school (→ Virtual Modules).
\nParticipants who have completed all phases receive their credential (→ Overview). They remain part of the SciLMi community through the SciLMi Hub and can continue to use and contribute to the materials in the SciLMi Wiki.
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