STEAMTeach (STEAM Education for Teaching Professionalism, 2020-1-ES01-KA201-082102) is a project funded with the support from the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme under the key action ‘Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices’. The project started in October 2020 and runs for 33 months.
It brings together an international team from Spain, Hungary, Austria, Finland and Greece.
- Universidad de Cantabria (University of Cantabria)(Coordinator)
- Budapesti Metropolitan Egyetem (Budapest Metropolitan University)
- Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- Jyvaskylan Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylä)
- Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon ( National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
STEAMTeach will also involve associated high schools and teacher training centres in the five countries.
Background and Objectives
As a result of our previous Erasmus+ project— Kids Inspire Kids for STEAM , we found teachers encounter a lot of difficulties implementing STEAM activities in their classrooms. Teachers are normally subject-specific and usually have never being trained on interdisciplinary approaches such as STEAM. They thus feel unconfident when applying this teaching approach in their classrooms. As suggested by the European Union and recent research, our educational systems require a STEAM Teaching Approach helping students to become well-prepared for the necessities of the current society. We live in a society led by technology that requires interpreting and analysing huge amounts of information from different disciplines. Nowadays, learning is not just about acquiring knowledge but also about developing skills to be able to integrate concepts and ideas from different fields, and to apply these skills in a variety of contexts. There is thus a priority for Promoting Innovative and Cross Disciplinary approaches to Teaching and Education.
Our objectives for the project are to:
- Design a Transcultural Professional Development Framework (see an initial version of our framework here)
- Use the framework for developing and implementing Teachers’ STEAM Training Course Programmes
- Test the local and trans-cultural effectiveness of these STEAM programmes by assessing the instruction of our trained teachers in their classrooms with students