Integrative STEM Education and Leadership for Student Success
Ginger M Teague
Rachel Geesa2021, The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_36-1visibility
…
description
1 page
link
1 file
To prepare for success in a global, technologically-driven economy, PK-12 students need real-world opportunities and authentic experiences throughout their educational programs. Educational leaders–administrators, curriculum specialists/coaches, and other school and district level leaders–must create a learning environment that facilitates problem-solving and critical thinking for all students to be ready for futures in the workplace and in higher education. Elementary and secondary education curricula in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have evolved to be taught in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary forms. Although much information about developing and implementing STEM education curricula is available to teachers, educational leaders need more guidance regarding how to effectively lead, facilitate, and support integrative STEM education methods and practices for life-long learning and career exploration. This chapter presents information and methods to be shared between educational leadership and integrative STEM education leaders for use with educators, community partners, and school stakeholders to improve students’ access to meaningful preparations for future work and education opportunities. While individual subjects include specific knowledge and skills, leaders must work with stakeholders in their educational organizations to develop innovative and diverse approaches to integrating STEM subjects in curricula and teaching and learning methods for student success.
Related papers
Preparing School and District Leaders for Success in Developing and Facilitating Integrative STEM in Higher Education
Journal of research on leadership education, 2020
Integrating STEM: An Interdisciplinary Approach to PreK-12 Education
IntechOpen eBooks, 2024
Challenges and Supports in Implementing Integrated STEM Education
2017
Background: Given the growing interest in, and relevance of, integrated approaches to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, there is an urgent desire to understand the challenges and obstacles to developing and implementing integrated STEM curricula and instruction. In this article, we present phase 1 of a two-phase needs assessment study to identify challenges and needs of promoting integrated approaches in STEM education. Utilizing a key informant approach, 22 K-12 teachers and four administrators selected as potential leaders in STEM education in an unidentified state on the East Coast of the USA were interviewed. Participants were asked to identify challenges and perceived supports to conduct integrated STEM education. Questions were open-ended in order to inform a larger, state-wide questionnaire study in phase 2 to be reported subsequently and were qualitatively coded. Results: Several distinctive themes were identified as described by teacher par...
A Comprehensive Approach to Fostering the Next Generation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Leaders
The New Educator, 2011
K-12 STEM Education: An Overview of Perspectives and Considerations
Hellenic Journal of STEM Education
Over the last two decades, discussions, rhetoric, recommendations, and policies regarding STEM education have escalated among businesses and industry, policy makers, think tanks, and educators around the world. STEM education is cast as pivotal in increasing productivity, prosperity, and global competitiveness; as a lynchpin in addressing current and future socio-geo-political-economic challenges; as a panacea for filling shortages in workforce pipelines. In this commentary, we discuss the emergence of STEM acronym, its variants, and the rhetoric surrounding STEM that drives educational policy. We examine more closely the integration of STEM and present an example of how in our own work, we have begun to clarify the characteristics of integrated STEM that guide our projects. We summarize some of the research studies in the emerging field of integrated STEM that document its benefits and reflect on the opportunities afforded STEM educators for future research. This commentary is by n...
STEM education K-12: perspectives on integration
International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
STEM Education: How much Integration is Enough?
International Journal of Research Publications, 2021
Teaching, Learning and Leading with Schools and Communities: Preparing Sophisticated, Reflective, and Resilient Elementary STEM Educators
Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
STEM education in K-12 schooling
Oxford Encyclopedia of Education Research, 2021
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education has become a global agenda, with schooling systems around the world seeking to incorporate STEM programs into their in-school and out-of-school curricula. While disciplinary integration has been common practice in primary (elementary) schooling for decades, the STEM education movement has more recently promoted an increased focus on project-and problem-based learning across disciplines in secondary schools. Research suggests, however, that STEM education programs can face barriers in their implementation, often depending on whether they are designed to align with existing curriculum outcomes or whether they are developed as co-curricular programs. In addition, some researchers and educators have argued for STEAM – integration of the Arts in STEM education.
Opportunities for integrated education in STEM
Opus et Educatio
Teachers in STEM (Science + Technology + Engineering + Mathematics = Science + Technology + Engineering + Mathematics) have a unique role in motivating and attracting their students' professions for which science, technology, engineering or mathematics degrees are required. However, STEM teachers do not acquire such interdisciplinary, interrelated in-depth knowledge sufficient for education during their training. Interdisciplinary STEM education requires teachers to have a good understanding and understanding of the concept of integrated STEM education (C. C. Johnson et al., 2020). In primary and secondary education, teachers in science and mathematics should be trained interdisciplinary in parallel with discipline-specific pedagogical studies. (Holik - Sanda, 2021).
Integrative STEM Education and Leadership
for Student Success
Rachel Louise Geesa, Krista M. Stith, and Ginger M. Teague
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reverse Engineering Integrative STEM Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tracing Philosophical Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shifting to Learning by Doing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Exploring the Ambiguity of STEM Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shifting Leaders to Integrative STEM Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Embedding Integrative STEM Education in Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conclusions and Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
5
5
7
9
9
10
15
17
17
Abstract
To prepare for success in a global, technologically-driven economy, PK-12
students need real-world opportunities and authentic experiences throughout
their educational programs. Educational leaders – administrators, curriculum
specialists/coaches, and other school and district level leaders – must create a
learning environment that facilitates problem-solving and critical thinking for all
students to be ready for futures in the workplace and in higher education. Elementary and secondary education curricula in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) fields have evolved to be taught in interdisciplinary,
R. L. Geesa (*)
Department of Educational Leadership, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
K. M. Stith
Center for Gifted Studies and Talent Development, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
G. M. Teague
PLTW Launch, Project Lead The Way, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
F. English (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management
Discourse, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_36-1
1
Related papers
GRAPHICAL SOUND - FROM INCEPTION UP TO THE MASTERPIECES
Academia Letters, 2021
Magyarországi katolikus egyházmegyék a török hódoltság idején
Magyar Sion, 18/1, 67-82, 2024
Frequently Asked Questions: Erotapocritic Canon Law Texts in the Komnenian Church (ca. 1080-1170)
Revue des Études Byzantines, 2024
Discussing the 2018/19 Changes in Ethiopia: Asnake Kefale
NokokoPod, 2019
Solution processed reduced graphene oxide electrodes for organic photovoltaics
Nanoscale Horizons, 2016
Cytosolic and ER J-domains of mammalian and parasitic origin can functionally interact with DnaK
The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 2007
KAJIAN MUTU IKAN TUNA (Thunnus albacares) SEGAR DI PASAR BERSEHATI MANADO
MEDIA TEKNOLOGI HASIL PERIKANAN, 2014
Increased risk of heat stress conditions during the 2022 Comrades Marathon
South African Journal of Science
In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class:In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's "New" Urban Middle Class
American Ethnologist, 2000
Simulations of inorganic-bioorganic interfaces to discover new materials: insights, comparisons to experiment, challenges, and opportunities
Chemical Society reviews, 2016
Centrality and energy dependence of charged particles in p+A and A+A collisions from running coupling $k_{T}$-factorization
arXiv (Cornell University), 2018
Developmental Differences in Beliefs About How Alcohol and Cocaine Affect Behavior
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1999
Low cost and flexible electrodes with NH3 plasma treatments in extended gate field effect transistors for urea detection
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2013