Best Practices in STEM Education

Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition

Remy Dou, Leigh Jenkins, Terrie Rust, Tim Spuck

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781433154164, 9781433121951
• eBook ISBN: 9781433150982
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education are seen by leaders from across the globe as key to economic success and prosperity. The goal of Best Practices in STEM Education: Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition is to improve the state of STEM education, not only in the United States, but internationally as well—good education anywhere is good for education everywhere. As the body of STEM-learning research grows, this second volume provides the unique perspective of nationally recognized educators who have spent, collectively, more than 600,000 hours at the interface between teaching and learning. The 24 chapters included in this volume are the product of years of practice, mistakes, reflection, and refinement. They provide the experiential pragmatism backed by research so desired by practitioners. Each chapter communicates how its author has implemented a specific STEM practice in the classroom and how the practice might be modified for use in other classrooms, schools, and learning environments. These are stories of success, as well as stories of struggle. Readers of this second edition will gain powerful insight about what really works when it comes to teaching and learning STEM.

Best Practices in STEM Education: Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition will serve as an excellent resource for use in any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teaching methods course, and no professional education library, K through college, should be without a copy

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures, Photos, and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• About the Authors
• Chapter One: The Search for Interdisciplinarity: Moving from Biology, Chemistry, and Physics to STEM and Beyond (Nancy Spillane)
• Chapter Two: Building a Foundation for Successful STEM Education at the Elementary Level (Carmelina O. Livingston)
• Chapter Three: Engaging Girls in STEM Careers (Terrie Rust)
• Chapter Four: Teaching Mathematics to At-Risk Students (Brenda Gardunia)
• Chapter Five: The Student-Centered Sheltered Instructional Approach and Growth (SSIAG) Model
• Chapter Six: Putting the “Authenticity” into Science Learning (Tim Spuck)
• Chapter Seven: Engaging Young Minds to be Tomorrow’s Innovators (Arundhati Jayarao)
• Chapter Eight: Expand the Horizons of Your Students by Expanding Yours (Jean Pennycook)
• Chapter Nine: Research Experiences for Teachers Can Enhance the Teaching of Science (Sue Whitsett)
• Chapter Ten: Modeling Sustainability Through STEM Service-Learning (Leigh Jenkins)
• Chapter Eleven: Outdoor Ecological Inquiry Brings Students and Nature Together (Dave Oberbillig)
• Chapter Twelve: Twenty First Century Skills Inspired Through Global STEM Projects (Dan Carpenter / Florentia Spires / Joseph Isaac)
• Chapter Thirteen: Alternative Reality: Gamifying Your Classroom (Remy Dou)
• Chapter Fourteen: Using Whiteboards to Create a Student-Centered, Collaborative Classroom (Buffy Cushman-Patz)
• Chapter Fifteen: Communicating Science to Public Audiences Through Media in High School: Improving Students’ Attitudes and Motivations in Science (Bernadine Okoro)
• Chapter Sixteen: Discourse Strategies for English Learners in the STEM Classroom (Jenay Sharp Leach)
• Chapter Seventeen: Increasing Literacy Skills in the STEM Classroom (April Lanotte)
• Chapter Eighteen: Promoting Science Literate Identities Through the Use of Trade Books (Paulo A. Oemig)
• Chapter Ninteen: Building Community Partnerships and Integrating Arts and Social Studies to Strengthen STEM Learning (John F. Smith / June Teisan)
• Chapter Twenty: Zoology Brüt: Using Backward Design to Explore the Sixth Extinction Through Art, Architecture and Appetite (Melissa George)
• Chapter Twenty-One: Using Self-Regulated Learning Processes to Support Scientific Thinking (Erin Peters-Burton)
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Teaching Students Metacognition Through Discipline-Based Research and Technology (Rebecca Vieyra)
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Applications of Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing, and Computer Visualizations: Observing the Earth and Visualizing the Future (John D. Moore)
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Integrating Informal STEM Learning into Your Curriculum (Remy Dou / Terrie Rust)
• Index