Zaira Ortiz Laso (UC) gave a seminar ‘Design and Implementation of a STEAM professional development program for Spanish high schol teachers’ as part of the ISEP Seminars on Novel Teaching Methodologies on April 28, 2022. The seminar was conducted online.
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Abstract
In the last years, educators and policymakers have advocated for an integrated education approach of the STEAM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). In Spain, this approach is promoted through the last law of education to be implemented in September 2022. The new curriculum considers STE(A)M as one out of eight competences that students must develop when finishing compulsory education at the age of 16. However, Spanish high school teachers are subject-specific, i.e., they have often been trained for teaching one STEAM discipline. In this seminar, I will describe the main issues high-school teachers have encountered when implementing STEAM Education and how such issues could be overcome through the design of a specific professional training program. The program should contain at least four main dimensions: (1) theoretical sessions, (2) experimental activities, (3) lesson designs, and (4) implementation practices. During the lesson designs and implementation practices teachers must be supervised by STEAM trainers and researchers. The results presented in this seminar are a consequence of the research conducted within the European project STEAMTeach (https://www.steamteach.unican.es/; Erasmus+).
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