Course: Building a STEM School: Great ideas to share with all teachers
Description
Great teachers don’t just teach in their classroom; they teach in schools. This module shares best practices for expanding STEM into your school community through things like gardens, recycling programs, math challenges, and science fairs.
Why take this course module?
Competencies
Knowledge:
Skills:
Mindset:
Great teachers don’t just teach in their classroom; they teach in schools. This module shares best practices for expanding STEM into your school community through things like gardens, recycling programs, math challenges, and science fairs.
Why take this course module?
- Taking math outside your classroom for STEM projects
- Making math a justice issue
- Turning STEM philosophies into school-wide action/events
Competencies
Knowledge:
- Reading/literacy is an essential part of teaching math
- Read alouds provide unique opportunities to invest students in the “why” of math
- All subjects are interdisciplinary and don’t exist in separate silos
Skills:
- Create a comprehensive math read aloud list that includes books for all math concepts for your grade level
- Create lesson plans that utilize read alouds in a variety of places in the lesson plan cycle
Mindset:
- Everyone is a reading teacher