BECOMING A STEM TEACHER: MY STEM LEARNING JOURNEY

The road to becoming an integrated STEM teacher is a journey. This STEM education journal aims to be a companion, or a guiding 'voice' on your journey from being to becoming a competent STEM teacher.

The journal can be used in two ways, as a personal learning journey and as a companion for professional learning communities. Anchored by 10 essential characteristics of STEM inquiry, the book features six integrated STEM activities, each with a vignette based on enacted lessons. Accompanied by probe activities, images of integrated STEM inquiry in the classroom, instructional models, suggested instructional strategies, and reflection questions, this book is designed to help you step into your journey of becoming an integrated STEM teacher.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Urban Farming
• Rusting
• Oil Spill
• Test Kits
• The Neuromuscular System
• The Cardiovascular System

Readership: This book could be used for in service teachers (like primary and secondary teachers who are currently science and mathematics teachers) for their professional development and preservice teachers as part of their coursework. The book can also be used as reading material for professionals who are enrolled in the STEM curriculum program.

Key Features:

• This book serves as a powerful resource that can help teachers learn holistically about integrated STEM learning and carry out STEM teaching in an effective and confident manner
• The consolidation of lesson ideas, reflection, journaling, and additional resources is superior as a strategy to the use of single fragmented STEM lesson ideas to facilitate integrated STEM learning
• The ideas presented in this book are evidence-informed through research that has been conducted in actual classrooms in Singapore and other parts of Asia