School - University collaboration to train teachers on new topics and new tools in physics education

Abstract In-service teacher training must ensure professional development based on both disciplinary and pedagogical research, taking advantage of collaboration between different training and institutional agencies. In this article we will talk about a collaborative experience among different training partners, to increase teachers’ interest in new tools and learning environments. We use different kinds of training sessions to introduce innovative didactic methodologies for teaching and learning involving both university research staff and secondary school teachers. The training project has planned a series of five meetings, divided into a seminar and a laboratorial part on the following topics: new didactic technologies, weather data processing, space missions, image processing, and modern physics. The laboratorial workshops were centered on applications that can be integrated into civic education and dual training. The meetings, followed by a hundred teachers, formed a design basis for the initial teacher training courses that will be activated from 2024 by the Italian Universities.