scholarly journals Framework for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily R. Miller ◽  
Tobin L. Smith ◽  
Linda Slakey ◽  
James Fairweather
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Sustained Improvement ◽  
Undergraduate Stem Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Stem Teaching

The Framework for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning provides a change model for improving the quality and effectiveness of STEM teaching and learning at research universities. The Framework recognizes the wider setting in which educational innovations take place — the department, the college, the university and the external environment — and addresses key institutional elements necessary for sustained improvement to undergraduate STEM education.

scholarly journals Proceedings for the NSEC 2017 National Conference

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kacy Redd ◽  
NOAH FINKELSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Broader Impacts ◽  
Undergraduate Stem Education

Abstracts and presentations from the NSEC 2017 National Conference. The conference is for representatives from campus STEM Education Centers or Centers for Teaching and Learning that have a STEM agenda, or those who work closely with these centers. The focus is specifically on centers engaged in improving undergraduate STEM education, including teacher preparation and broader impacts in STEM. It is opportunity for center staff to learn from one another.

Designing a competencies framework for STEM teaching for pre-teachers of chemistry in the University of Education for meeting the new demands of current teacher training

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Thi Chien
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
General Education ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Competency Framework ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Stem Teaching

The STEM education teaching approach (STEM teaching) has been one of the important orientations ofthe Vietnamese general education program. However, thus farthere has been no competency framework for STEM teachingin our country. A competency framework for STEM teachingwould include two important things. With this framework,learners would have complete control when setting up theirplan, finding information, defining the learning contentmethodologies and providing multi-subject knowledge at thebeginning of a procedure. Furthermore, it can be orientatedto evaluate the expression level of each student. This paperpresents the process of designing a competency frameworkfor a STEM teaching and suggests the ways to use thisframework at the University of Education.

scholarly journals Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change: A Five-Year Status Report on the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily R. Miller ◽  
James Fairweather ◽  
Linda Slakey ◽  
Tobin L. Smith ◽  
Tara King
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Status Report ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Undergraduate Stem Education ◽  
Association Of American Universities ◽  
Education Initiative

In September 2011, the Association of American Universities launched a major initiative to improve undergraduate STEM education. The overall objective was to influence the culture of STEM departments at AAU institutions so that faculty members are encouraged and supported to use teaching practices proven by research to be effective in engaging students in STEM education and in helping students learn. Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change provides a five-year status report on the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.

scholarly journals Catalysts for Achieving Sustained Improvement in the Quality of Undergraduate STEM Education

Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Sue Coleman ◽  
Tobin L. Smith ◽  
Emily R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Department Chair ◽  
Undergraduate Stem Education ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Mathematics

Promoting excellence in undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education at major research universities is necessary to ensure that we have the STEM-literate workforce and general population required to propel the nation forward into the twenty-first century and beyond. This essay provides a brief contextual history of the Association of American Universities' (AAU) effort to improve the effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education at member campuses and delineates the specific goals of this initiative. The essay then illuminates the essential role of the academic department and department chair in achieving long-lasting change and improving the quality of undergraduate education. It also discusses critical strategies and approaches for promoting the most effective methods for undergraduate STEM teaching and learning, with numerous examples from AAU member universities. The essay concludes with an acknowledgment of key challenges and opportunities that continue to face undergraduate education at research universities.

An Investigation of the Effects of Integrating Computing and Project- or Problem-Based Learning in the Context of Environmental Sciences

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-89
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Moallem ◽  
William L. Sterrett ◽  
Christopher Raymond Gordon ◽  
Sohail Masood Sukhera ◽  
Aisha Mahmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Stem Teaching

The chapter reports the results of integrating computing, project or problem-based learning and engineering process to address the needs of preparing the STEM workforce in Punjab, Pakistan through transforming STEM teaching and learning processes. It also aimed to build the capacity of the University of Education, Lahore to improve the quality and relevancy of its STEM teacher education programs and its partnership schools. A collaborative team of STEM and STEM education faculty from two U.S. universities and University of Education (UE), Lahore designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated STEM learning units with a specific focus on water and management of natural resources to under-served 6-8 grade students in Pakistan through the integration of project-based and problem-based learning (PBL) and Squeak Etoys, modeling, and simulation tool.

Of Metaphors and Molecules: Figurative Language Bridging STEM and the Arts in Education

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-320
Author(s):  
Danah Henriksen ◽  
Punya Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Stem Teaching ◽  
Figurative Thinking

STEM education in the United States is often described as being in a downward spiral, when assessed by competency test scores and lack of student motivation for engaging STEM disciplines. The authors suggest this arises from an overly instrumental view of STEM. While STEAM has arisen as a pushback paradigm, the application of STEAM in schools is challenging, and educators are often unclear about connecting STEM and the arts. The authors suggest envisioning STEAM through natural disciplinary interconnections. They focus on the integration of language arts and figurative thinking to blur the boundaries of STEM and the arts, and offer examples of figurative language—such as metaphor, linguistic etymology and synecdoche—for framing STEM teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Promoting Transformation of Undergraduate STEM Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily R. Miller ◽  
Tara King
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
American Association ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Undergraduate Stem Education ◽  
Stem Teaching

During a 2019 workshop, the American Association of Universities (AAU) convened experts involved in leading, researching, evaluating and funding efforts to transform undergraduate STEM teaching across all sectors of higher education. The goal was to synthesize essential issues and challenges in designing, leading, and researching institutional and multi-institutional transformation projects to improve undergraduate STEM education.

scholarly journals Embracing a Culture of STEM Education: A Qualitative Research Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Laux
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Supportive Leadership ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Stem Teaching

The purpose of this study was to explore teacher and administrator perspectives on STEM education and how they demonstrate characteristics of STEM education. The five schools in this study are part of a greater network of elementary, middle, and high schools that collaborate and learn together. Data were collected through interviews with teachers and administrators and observational notes from meetings and other events. Interviews were recorded and transcribed and then coded to look for themes in the data. Findings indicate teachers and administrators view a supportive leadership, teacher buy in, and comfort in teaching STEM as essential to the implementation of STEM initiatives. Without these necessary components, inequities may arise and lead to less opportunities for students. Overcoming obstacles may require a change in mindset to embrace a culture of STEM teaching and learning. Understanding how teachers and administrators view the importance of STEM and benefits of participating in a community of STEM can help understand how to shift the culture of a school to one more inclusive of STEM education.

scholarly journals Professionals and the problem of introducing innovations in the university: prospects for the development of distance education, advantages and disadvantages

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3B) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Kuanysh Zh. Syman ◽  
Vladimir P. Andronov ◽  
Zoya I. Girich ◽  
Irina V. Rodionova ◽  
Marina Y. Litwinowa
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Pedagogical Innovations ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Learning

The purpose of this work is to identify and substantiate the problems of introducing innovations in the university.  For the purpose of the study the following methods are used systematic analysis of philosophical, pedagogical and psychological scientific literature, researching and summarizing of educating experience; the survey. Education badly needs effective innovations of scale that can help high-quality learning outcomes across the system. The primary focus of educational innovations should be on teaching and learning theory and practice, as well as on the teacher readiness to innovative activity. The analysis of the teachers accepts to innovations demonstrate that the implementation of pedagogical innovations accompanies certain problems of future teacher activity during training at the university. Main factors and reasons determining the teachers’ innovation resistance could be considered when preparing them for innovative activity as a crucial factor for modernizing the country’s education system.

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