Practical Steps for STEM Inquiry

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 using real-world problems, posing questions and challenges, planning STEM experiences, and reflecting, restesting, and retrying
• A range of practical activities to incorporate STEM into your teaching
• Ways to differentiate activities to suit your learning intentions

This course will take 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks.

This course is on-demand and for private study. Learn at your own pace and at times that suit you. Get a certificate when you finish. You will have ongoing access.

• Learning areas: Science, Technologies, Mathematics
• General capabilities: Numeracy, Information and Communication Technology, Critical and Creative Thinking

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours in the following states and territories:

Proficient Teacher
1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
3.3.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

This program is awaiting accreditation within the ACT for 2023. We expect it will be available for accreditation by end of January.

Tracey Gray is a Scientist and an experienced science classroom teacher and early learning educator. She is passionate about creating innovative programs that integrate STEM and STEAM techniques and promote creative thinking, curiosity and problem solving. Tracey loves working with teachers and early childhood educators to improve their teaching practice and build their confidence in teaching STEM.

 

 

 

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!