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| Paper: |
The Galileo Teacher Training Program Global Efforts |
| Volume: |
457, Connecting People to Science |
| Page: |
155 |
| Authors: |
Doran, R.; Pennypacker, C.; Ferlet, R. |
| Abstract: |
The Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) successfully named representatives in nearly 100 nations in 2009, the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). The challenge had just begun.
The steps ahead are how to reach educators that might benefit from our program and how to help build a more fair and science literate society, a society in which good tools and resources for science education are not the privilege of a few.
From 2010 on our efforts have been to strengthen the newly formed network and
learn how to equally help educators and students around the globe.
New partnerships with other strong programs and institutions are being formed, sponsorship schemes being outlined, new tools and resources being publicized, and on-site and video conference training conducted all over the world.
Efforts to officially accredit a GTTP curriculum are on the march and a stronger certification process being outlined. New science topics are being integrated in our effort and we now seek to discuss the path ahead with experts in this field and the community of users,
opening the network to all corners of our beautiful blue dot.
The main aim of this article is to open the discussion regarding the urgent issue of how to reawaken student interest in science, how to solve the gender inequality in science careers, and how to reach the underprivileged students and open to them the same possibilities. Efforts are in strengthening the newly formed network and learning how to equally help educators and students around the globe. |
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