Mission

• Teaching and Learning Maths with GeoGebra in a STEAM Context
• Maths, Geogebra & STEAM Teacher Training in Cape Verde

Objectives

The intervention aims to reinforce the training of 26 Cape Verdean Geogebra trainers to obtain level III, from the UniCV centres in Praia and Mindelo, and to carry out pilot training workshops for primary and secondary school teachers in different municipalities on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente, as part of this certification process.

The training focuses on the area of mathematics and the use of GeoGebra software in a STEAM(1) context, as well as the development of practices that contribute to improving student learning, through the training of trainers and initial teacher training and the introduction of GeoGebra software into teachers' practice, through contextualised approaches that establish intra- and extra-mathematical connections.

At the same time, the project has a research component, which is part of the research project "GeoGebra & STEAM - Teacher Training - Teaching and Learning Mathematics in a STEAM context with GeoGebra in Portuguese-speaking Countries", being developed at the Centre for Research and Innovation in Education - inED at ESE-IPP.

Action 0 - Preliminary project activities
1 - Meetings with project organisers

Date: 2020-02-10 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of the Uni-CV; Project Coordination Team; OEI |Subject: 1st Project Coordination Meeting.

Date: 2020-10-27 | Stakeholders: Project Coordination Team, UniCV Communication and Image Office, OEI | Subject: 2nd Project Coordination Meeting - Clarifications on some aspects related to the preparation of logistics for the training sessions and webinars on the 29th and 30th.

2 - Meetings with the National Directorate of Education/Communications established

Date: 2020-01-09 | Stakeholders: Rector of the Uni-CV (Vice-Rector Prof Astrigilda Silveira and Pro-Rector Prof João Cardoso); Project Coordination Team; Director SIEPC (DNE), Prof Eleonora Monteiro (replacing the National Director of Education); Director SGEDC (DNE), Prof Rosa Silva | Subject: : 1st Project Meeting with the National Directorate of Education.

Date: 2020-01-23 | Stakeholders: Rector of Uni-CV (Rector Prof. Judite Nascimento, Vice-Rector Prof. Astrigilda Silveira and Pro-Rector Prof. João Cardoso); Project Coordination Team; Director SGEDC (DNE), Prof. Rosa Silva | Subject: 2nd Project Coordination Meeting - Clarifications on some aspects related to the preparation of logistics for the training sessions and webinars on the 29th and 30th.

Date: 2020-02-10 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of the Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: Submission of the project to the National Directorate of Education.

Date: 2020-02-11 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: Presentation of the Training of Trainers project and pilot teacher training in Mathematics, GeoGebra & STEAM in Cape Verde to the National Directorate of Education and formalisation of the partnership request.

Date: 2020-02-20 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: Submission of the proposed schedule of training sessions to the DNE for validation and sending of the list of primary and secondary school teachers certified as Level II GeoGebra trainers.

Date: 2020-03-04 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of the Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: DNE's validation of the proposed schedule of training sessions; DNE's request to Uni-CV to draw up a proposal for a letter of invitation to be sent to the schools; DNE's agreement for Uni-CV to draw up a proposal for the agreement to be signed between the parties; DNE's assumption of responsibility for the dismissal of teachers.

Date: 2020-03-05 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: Confirmation of Uni-CV's willingness to draw up proposals for the invitation letter to be sent to the schools and the agreement to be signed between the parties.

Date: 2020-03-05 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of Uni-CV | Subject: request to draw up the partnership agreement to be signed between Uni-CV and DNE.

Date: 2020-03-06 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of the Uni-CV | Subject: request for a meeting by the Uni-CV's Advisor for International Relations, Cooperation and Mobility with the members of the Rector's team (Vice-Rector and Pro-Rector) to discuss the aspects to be covered in the partnership agreement to be signed between the Uni-CV and the DNE.

Date: 2020-03-09 | Stakeholders: Rector of Uni-CV; ME / DNE / Dir. SIEPC - Eleonora H. Monteiro; ME / DNE / Rosa Maria Paulete Fortes silva | Subject: sending the names of the schools to which the level II teacher trainers belong and the letter of invitation to the DNE to be sent to the schools.

Date: 2020-03-09 | Stakeholders: Rectorate of the Uni-CV | Subject: Discussion of the points to be included in the protocol proposal and institutional counterparts to be assumed within the framework of the project.

Action 1 - Training for Trainers - Geogebra & STEAM in Cape Verde
Target audience - Team of trainers (primary, secondary and higher education teachers)

Trainers:

Astrigilda Pires Silveira  (Membro da Equipa de Coordenação da Investigação)

José Manuel Dos Santos (Coordenador Científico)

1º momento de formação - 10 de setembro de 2020

Local: Online - TEAMS - UniCV (unicv.edu.cv) 

Horário: 8:30-12:30 e 14:00-17:00
 

2nd training session - October 2020 

Action 2 - Teaching and Learning Maths with GeoGebra in a STEAM context
Target audience: Primary, secondary and higher education teachers

Trainers: The project's team of trainers, training coordinators and research coordinators.

1st training session - 10 September 2020

Venue: Online - TEAMS - UniCV (unicv.edu.cv) 

Time: 8:30-12:30 and 14:00-17:00

Interveners: Project Coordination Team; Team of trainers.

2nd training session - 29 and 30 October 2020

Venue: Online - TEAMS - UniCV (unicv.edu.cv) 

Time: 8:30-12:30

Speakers: Rector of the Uni-CV; Director of the OEI Office; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Project Coordination Team; Team of trainers.

Subject: Training of trainers session - Online - 2nd Moment - 1st day

Action 3 - Developing teaching experiences in Cape Verdean schools
This work will take place during the 2020-2021 school year on the islands of São Tiago and São Vicente in schools of various levels of education.

3rd training session - 28-31 March 2022

The 3rd face-to-face training session for GeoGebra trainers took place in Cape Verde on 28 and 29 March, Action 2, and the 4th training session of the pilot training workshops for primary and secondary school teachers, from 30 to 31 March, Action 3.

These activities, which took place on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente, are part of the "Project to Strengthen Mathematics Teacher Training in Cape Verde, in a STEAM & GeoGebra Logic", promoted in partnership by the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI) and the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), with the financial support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and were implemented with the involvement of the GeoGebra Institute at this higher education institution.

In the course of the work on the training of trainers, issues relating to teaching experiences, training workshops and the methodologies for implementing the experiences in the classroom were discussed and reflected on, based on the conceptual model of progressive TPACK - Mathematical Competence, Pedagogical Competence, Technological Competence, Curricular Competence, inspired by Everett Rogers' theory of the Processes of Diffusion of Innovation.

Action 2

These models play an important role in the work strategy of the pilot training workshops for primary and secondary school teachers under development, especially those that took place between 30 and 31 March 2022.

Action 3

The project in question works with maths in an integrative vision of learning and aims to train Cape Verdean GeoGebra trainers to obtain level III and carry out pilot teacher training workshops as part of this certification process. The training focuses on the area of mathematics and the use of GeoGebra software in a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) context, an approach to promoting learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics contexts as a starting point to guide students' exploration\investigation, dialogue and critical thinking.

O desenvolvimento de práticas que contribuam para a melhoria da aprendizagem dos alunos, através da formação de formadores e formação inicial de professores e da introdução do software GeoGebra na prática dos docentes, mediante abordagens contextualizadas e que estabelecem conexões intra e extra matemática, também compõem esta formação.

Links:

https://www.geogebra.org/u/institutogeogebraunicv

https://www.geogebra.org/u/igportugal

News:

09/07/2020 - OEI lança E-Book gratuito de “Formação de Formadores em GeoGebra para Cabo Verde”, em língua portuguesa

27/05/2021 - Dos Santos, José Manuel Dos Santos; Astrigilda Silveira (2A15-3C2B-7889). 2021. O GeoGebra como ferramenta pedagógica para a investigação e a inovação em Educação Matemática no contexto dos países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa. Comunicação na IV CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE A LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA NO SISTEMA MUNDIAL, inserida no painel do EIXO 4 CIÊNCIA, INVESTIGAÇÃO E INOVAÇÃO EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA - Horizontes e Perspetivas da Língua Portuguesa, organizada pelo Ministério da Educação de Cabo Verde, pela CPLP e pelo IILP. https://www.cplp.org/id-4447.aspx?Action=1&NewsId=9149&M=NewsV2&PID=10872. YouTube: https://youtu.be/3zczwpEMQlI

(1) STEAM -  Acrónimo de Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics. A educação STEAM designa uma abordagem para promover a aprendizagem que recorre a contextos das Ciências, da Tecnologia, da Engenharia, das Artes e da Matemática como ponto de partida para orientar a exploração\investigação, o diálogo e o pensamento crítico dos estudantes.