Abstrakt
The conference about project-based education and other student-activation strategies and modern issues in science educationis organised at the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University with support of other departments focused on teacher training. This year, it was 21st year already.
Pre-service training is crucial to promote these methods oriented on students' activity effectively. Based on empirical data, it is obvious that activating strategies need to be trained in pre-service teacher training as teachers who have not tried these activities themselves are unlikely to apply them in their future practice.
At the same time, it seems that applying these strategies (namely project-based and inquiry-based education) requires gradual steps. Students need to get used to growing autonomy of their own learning step by step.
From the teachers' competences point of view it is important to choose appropriate amount of scaffolding and its successive decreasing.