CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION

The SciLMi Blended Intensive Training (BIT) on Critical Thinking for Effective Democratic Citizens (13/05/2025 – 24/09/2025), whose on-site part took place in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain), from the 16th to the 20th June 2025.

This course had a duration of 46 hours (40 hours on-site, and 6 hours online).

Details of the course

Learning outcomes:

• Make effective use of SciLMi resources to meaningfully integrate meta-scientific literacies into everyday teaching practices.
• Adapt or develop materials and design learning activities that foster students’ development of meta-scientific literacies.
• Collaborate across subject boundaries to raise awareness of socio-scientific issues and support students in contextualising their knowledge by connecting it to real-world problems.
• Recognise the relevance of Critical Thinking as a meta-scientific competence and the relevance of socio-scientific issues as suitable contexts for fostering meta-scientific literacies.

Learning activities:

• Introducing to the SciLMi competence framework and the role of Critical Thinking as a meta-scientific competence.
• Analysing an already existing lesson plan.
• Developing a SciLMi lesson plan for own's disciplines using a SciLMi lesson plan template.
• Formulating clear activity instructions with Bloom’s verbs and aligning them with model solutions.
• Building cross-disciplinary connections between SciLMi lesson plans form different disciplines.
• Collaborating across subject boundaries to make teaching more accessible and prevent expert blindness.
• Reflecting on how peer feedback sharpens lesson design and supports integrated over compartmentalised learning.
• Presenting the cross-disciplinary SciLMi lesson plans.
• Giving and receiving peer feedback to improve lesson and activity focus.
• Exploring the potential of Erasmus+ KA1 funding for professional development.

Assessmenet criteria:

• Clarity and alignment of lesson/activity instructions with SciLMi outcomes.
• Level of collaboration and peer engagement.
• Depth of critical reflection during and after the course