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Stem Teaching and Learning in the Toronto District School Board

8 Aug 2016

At the end of the first year of implementation of the TDSB STEM professional learning initiative, our research revealed important findings about administrator, teacher, coach, and student attitudes towards STEM education, STEM teaching and learning practices, and STEM professional learning practices. [...] In particular, the findings provided insights into administrator and teacher perceptions of the value of STEM education; teacher knowledge of STEM pedagogy, resources, STEM careers, and collaboration in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); teacher confidence and self-efficacy in STEM teaching; the frequency of use of STEM teaching practices to develop STEM competencies in students; student pe [...] Overall, at the end of Year One of the TDSB’s implementation of STEM, the main findings that emerged were as follows: Teacher and Administrator Attitudes and Perceptions of STEM • Teachers and administrators (over 90%) strongly believed in the value of STEM education for improving student learning. [...] A strategy proposed to address the issue of teachers’ content knowledge of the different STEM disciplines at the middle school level and which also addresses the concerns raised about diminishing the importance of individual disciplines by participants in the TDSB study is to emphasize “problem-solving using tools of the STEM disciplines, as opposed to education about the content of these discipli [...] TEACHER KNOWLEDGE OF STEM PEDAGOGY AND RESOURCES Overall, teacher participants reported that they had the necessary knowledge and understanding of STEM pedagogy and were aware of the use of various technologies for STEM education.
education school curriculum science and technology psychology design communication philosophy students teachers teacher assessment cognition problem-based learning further education creativity teaching and learning competence (human resources) cognitive science transdisciplinary critical thinking design thinking stem education
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203
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA

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