A Need to Support Teacher Diversity Through Culturally Relevant STEM Education at the Elementary School

Author(s):  
Neha Anand ◽  
Ananthi Shankaranarayanan
Author(s):  
Marina Milner-Bolotin

The chapter describes the implementation of collaborative educational technologies in STEM teacher education to support teacher-candidates in acquiring inquiry-based teaching skills and positive attitudes about inquiry learning. The focus is on five different collaborative technology-enhanced pedagogies: (1) Peer Instruction, (2) collaborative design of conceptual questions with PeerWise, (3) data-driven STEM inquiry via using live data collection and analysis, (4) computer modeling-enhanced inquiry, and (5) collaborative reflection on peer teaching. Teacher-candidates experienced these pedagogical approaches first as learners, then reflected on them as future teachers, and lastly incorporated some of them during the practicum. As a result, teacher-candidates gained experience in promoting technology-enhanced inquiry in STEM education and began developing positive attitudes towards technology-enhanced inquiry-based STEM education.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Sergey Averin ◽  
Natalia Murodhodjaeva ◽  
Marina Romanova ◽  
Yulia Serebrennikova ◽  
Andrey V. Koptelov

The article reveals the potential of introducing the STEM Education for the Children of Preschool and Elementary School Age authorial program as a means of managing the continuity process in the modern educational organization. The specific continuity content at the level of educational modules of the program is shown along with the results of monitoring the effectiveness of system implementation of the program at educational establishments. The study has been aimed at the theoretical justification and empirical verification of the effectiveness of the STEM Education for the Children of Preschool and Elementary School Age modular program as one of the means for ensuring the continuity of the preschool and general elementary education levels. During the study, the methods of analysis, theoretical modeling, pedagogical diagnostics, and mathematical statistics (U-Mann-Whitney test) have been used. Studying the effectiveness of the STEM Education for the Children of Preschool and Elementary School Age program based on three years of testing in preschool education has allowed detecting positive dynamics of the indicators in the experimental group. Given the identified level of the development of intellectual operations, imagination, and social intelligence of the children involved in the program at kindergartens, the STEM education program has been developed for the elementary school, the modules of which are shown in this article


Author(s):  
Salvador Ros ◽  
Llanos Tobarra ◽  
Antonio Robles-Gomez ◽  
Agustin C. Caminero ◽  
Roberto Hernandez ◽  
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