Multipliers Network

The SciTeach Center’s multiplier network is a group of primary school teachers and science education specialists that collaborate to develop innovative science education formation continue for Luxembourg Primary Teachers.

The Multipliers Network meets once a month at the SciTeach Center for a 4-hour formation over the entire school year. Each 4-hour session engages participants in science activities, discussions, and considerations of various theoretical foundation of science didactics at the primary level. Grounded in these approaches, the group works over the school year to develop formation continue to be offered through IFEN.

What is the Multiplier Network?

A small group of teachers are enrolled in Multipliers Further Education, a series of formation continue workshops held on the first Tuesday of every month (October-July) at the SciTeach Center (continued remotely after March 12, 2020), from 2-6 p.m. The goal of these courses is to collaboratively develop teacher education modules for future dissemination at the SciTeach Center.

The monthly workshops are led by the SciTeach Center team, consisting of university researchers and detached classroom teachers, and focus on “learning-by-doing”. During these meetings, participants learn about theoretical perspectives of inquiry-based science and share experiences teaching science at the primary school level.

Through a community-of-practice / apprenticeship model, the multipliers learn about innovative practices for teaching competency-based science education through the co-planning and co-teaching of formation continue workshops that they themselves then later co-teach with SciTeach Center team members.

Innovative formation continue for teachers developed

Formation continues developed through the work of the Multipliaktoren have included,  De grousse Besch, mikroskopesch kléng, Taucht ins Weltall ein!, Nachhaltigkeit im (Schul-)all, and Bionik . Multiplikatoren then lead the formation for primary teachers together with SciTeach Center Team members, and receive compensation through IFEN.