Teaching Elementary STEM Education: Unpacking Standards and Implementing Practice-Based Pedagogy

This textbook provides practical guidelines for integrating STEM into the elementary classroom, equipping teachers with tools to create standards-based curriculum and cognitively demanding tasks. It promotes student reasoning, autonomy, and humanity, and empowers teachers to become change agents and empower their students to impact the world positively.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 242 pages
\n Publication date: 01 August 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive textbook provides invaluable guidance for effectively integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) into the elementary classroom, with a focus on addressing real-world problems and nurturing high-level thinking and problem-solving skills in students. Authored by Sherri Cianca, a renowned educator and experienced teacher, the book offers practical strategies that are easily implemented to foster student reasoning, autonomy, and humanity.

Designed to equip teachers and future teachers with the tools they need to create and implement standards-based STEM curriculum and cognitively demanding tasks, this approach empowers educators to better understand the standards and design effective instructional practices. The chapters in the book work together to advance teachers' abilities to achieve mastery-level understanding of content, translate standards into student-friendly curriculum, and create a robust learning environment.

Each chapter includes thought-provoking probes to uncover incomplete and inaccurate conceptions, while chapter summaries and Reflect and Apply sections reinforce professional development. Additionally, appendices provide rich examples of STEM units, curriculum, and assessment criteria, further enhancing the book's usefulness.

Dr. Cianca's vision for this textbook is to empower teachers as well-equipped change agents who can empower their students to transfer STEM learning into applications that will have a positive impact on our future world. By integrating STEM into the elementary classroom, students are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to become the innovators and problem-solvers of tomorrow.

\n Weight: 370g\n
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367150914\n \n