Teacher Training in Educational Robotics

An overview of teacher training programs in educational robotics: characteristics, best practices and recommendations

“…Preschool teacher training is not as common as primary and secondary school teacher training. In the studies reviewed, only three training programs are held exclusively for preschool teachers (Bers et al 2002;Bers et al 2013; Caballero-González and Muñoz-Repiso 2017), while four training programs are held for preschool teachers as well as primary and secondary school teachers (Bers and Portsmore 2005;Castro et al 2018;Negrini 2019;Scaradozzi et al 2019). Even less common are training programs for special needs teaching staff since only two relevant studies were found.…”

“…As Zhou et al (2015) asserted, an inquiry-based approach addresses the needs of a diverse student population and enables students to take charge of their learning experiences. Also common in the teacher training programs in our sample are the project-based learning approach (Alimisis 2019;Alimisis et al 2009;Negrini 2019), the discovery-based learning approach (Sullivan and Moriarty 2009) and learning by design (Alimisis et al 2009). Some training programs were also based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Engineering Design Process (Goodale 2013;Kaya et al 2017) or the innovative didactic methodologies of Digital Storytelling and Classroom Debate (Scaradozzi et al 2019).…”

“…application of ER activities in the classroom (Castro et al 2018;Hamner et al 2016;Negrini 2019) since teachers do not have much time in the regular school week to devote to planning (Hamner et al 2016). In fact, Hamner et al (2016) suggested that teachers should use their training time to design the ER activities they will later implement in class.…”

“…In fact, Hamner et al (2016) suggested that teachers should use their training time to design the ER activities they will later implement in class. In the study by Negrini (2019), a database of educational robotics activities was created by the teachers themselves, which they later applied in their own classrooms. First they tested the activities with their own students and then shared them with their fellow trainees.…”

Foreign experience in teaching of the educational robotics

“…Для подолання цих перешкод і впровадження робототехніки в школи дослідницька група розробила концепцію підготовки вчителів з освітньої робототехніки та підготувала 17 вчителів. Про позитивні результати експерименту свідчить те, що більшість вчителів-учасників включили робототехніку в свої навчальні програми (Negrini, 2019).…”