The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) was supposed to organise and conduct a Multiplier Event in Athens to disseminate the outcome of the STEAMTeach Project. This multiplier event aimed to engage participants (mostly in-service teachers and some pre-service) in STEAMTeach approaches through participation. So, on the 9th of June 2023, we organised the «Teachers’ Day» in parallel with the progress of the ICTMT16 conference (http://ictmt16.eds.uoa.gr/ ); NKUA prepared a day with poster presentations and hands-on activities for teachers that participated.
The “Teachers’ Day was separated in three phases.
1st phase: A plenary lecture around the rationale (IO1), the implementation (IO2 & IO3), and the outcomes of the project.
2nd phase: Poster presentation. We had already used some of the lesson plans that were created following the STEAMTeach approach (IO1 & IO3), in a training programme for in-service teachers, around the use of ICT in the classroom (https://e-pimorfosi.cti.gr/en/). So, we called teachers that have recognised some semblance of the STEAMTeach approach -which was already known to them through this programme- with their activities in the classroom to make poster presentations. There were 3 such posters.
3rd phase: Hands-on activity; before the end of the poster session, we started a 1-hour group discussion on these activities presented by the teachers, followed by reflective questions. At the end of phase 3, we asked participant teachers if they wanted to send them the 5 exemplary lesson plans-activities developed during the STEAMTeach training programme and the classroom implementation phase.
From the results of the Teachers’ Day, it became clear that our goal was satisfactorily achieved; teachers were informed about the main concepts of the STEAMTeach framework, they were interested in the lesson plans that we proposed to them, and they seemed to be willing to adopt the STEAMTeach methodology.
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