Course Description

This course will help you understand what STEM is and practical steps to incorporate strategies for STEM inquiry into everyday learning experiences. It will provide you with practical examples and activities that can be used in your primary classroom. You’ll learn:

 What STEM is and the importance of an integrated teaching approach.

How to identify concepts of STEM and make connections to everyday learning experiences.

Strategies for STEM inquiry, including: a) Using real-world problems, issues and ideas. b) Posing questions and challenges. c) Planning STEM experiences. d) Retrying, recreating and reflecting. e) Sharing the success and failures.

A range of practical activities to incorporate STEM into your teaching.

Ways to differentiate activities to suit your learning intentions.

 Audience

Primary Science, Technologies & Mathematics teachers

 Teaching Standards

1.5.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities:  Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities

2.1.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area:  Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities

3.3.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use teaching strategies:  Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking

3.4.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Select and use resources:  Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning