A Teacher Training: Physics Enquiry from University to High School”

To reduce the gap between high school and educational research, the Department of Physics at University of Salerno (Italy) has planned and implemented various training courses aiming at helping high-school teachers to introduce new didactical strategies and specific tools for Physics. From this perspective, the Department has been involved in the teacher training program of the European project “Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated” (TEMI). As it is required by this project, as the first step a group of thirty teachers has been involved in a four days workshop, which has consisted of sixteen hours of lessons and laboratory activities. During the second step of the project, teachers have been motivated to implement in their own classes some of the activities proposed in the first step, using TEMI methodology. Finally, as the third step, we have discussed a comparison of the results obtained by the teachers into the classes. All these activities have been based on the principles of the "Inquiry based science learning” (IBSE). The "Inquiry" methodology has been activated by the TEMI trainers during all the phases of the project, in order to help teachers to easily guide their students to investigate physical phenomena and to make questions and formulate scientific hypotheses. We will briefly describe the training methodology, giving some examples of the work produced by the teachers in their classrooms during our project, with comments and discussion.