Amgen Teach

Amgen Teach supports science teachers across Europe by providing training workshops and distance-learning events that supply educators with the skills and confidence to transform the science classroom experience for students. Science teachers in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Turkey are supported with free training sessions that emphasize hands-on, inquiry-based experiential learning for their students. Learn more by visiting amgenteach.eu and following the #AmgenTeach hashtag on Twitter.

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SPW 27 at European Schoolnet
Amgen Teach Science Projects Workshop In The Future Classroom Lab, 5-6 April

The workshop was co-organised by the Amgen Teach and Space EU projects and had 12 Amgen Teach Ambassadors and 10 Space EU Teacher Training Institutes (TTIs) participating during a 2 day event at the European Schoolnet headquarters in Brussels

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The Success of a Turkish Expert Amgen Teach Teacher as a Teacher Trainer
On February 26th, 2019, an expert Amgen Teach teacher, Dilek Yıldırım, together with her team, carried out two inquiry-based implementations as a part of a series of workshops during a STEM training, conducted by the Research and Development Department of İzmir Provincial Directorate of National Education and Line Project. Read on to discover more about the workshops!

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Amgen Teach Participants Share Their Experience
Do you want to know more about how Amgen Teach supports life science teachers across Europe? In this new video, teachers share their experiences after the program’s third year. Amgen Teach deepens student interest and achievement in science by strengthening the ability of teachers to use inquiry-based teaching strategies in the classroom.

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Meet Róisín Uí Choinn from Ireland
This Irish teacher attended her Amgen Teach course in May 2016 and has already been able to apply many examples of the workshop to her teaching: "The main change I have made is in carrying out energy, heat light and sound experiments, of which there are many in our syllabus.

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Meet Murielle Treil from France
With more than 20 years of practice, Murielle was already long experienced in inquiry-based teaching. However, she considered participating in the Amgen Teach trainings as an opportunity to further engage in inquiry-based activities for adults, to share views with researchers on the process of scientific research and to build inquiry-based pedagogical content together with other participants and trainers.

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Meet Petr Distler from the Czech Republic
Peter is a Chemistry teacher from Prague (Czech Republic) that has participated in all the different types of Amgen Teach activities since his enrolment in the programme last year.

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Meet Delia Borsum from Germany
Delia teaches eight-to-twelve year olds at the Hedwig-Bollhagen-Gymnasium Velten school in Kremmen, Germany. As well as biology and chemistry, she also is a physical education teacher and has 20 years' experience as an educator. Delia participated in Amgen Teach in 2015 and has taken full advantage of the training to help her apply inquiry-based practices in the classroom.

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Meet İsmail Dönmez from Turkey
İsmail attended an Amgen Teach science teacher training workshop in September 2014, organised by a team from TED University.

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Meet Christelle Rigal from France
"New ideas on how to teach science and practical skills" are how Christelle describes two of the great benefits Amgen Teach brings to her classes. An earth and life sciences teacher with nine years' experience.

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Meet Jordi Prims from Spain
A teacher at the Escola Cooperativa El Puig in Barcelona, Jordi has been in education for 19 years and is now responsible for teaching maths and science to 13-16 year olds.

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