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Even with increasing calls for both researchers and educators to attend to the “E” in STEM from within the larger field of STEM education, little is known about the practices that serve to support ear

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Even with increasing calls for both researchers and educators to attend to the “E” in STEM from within the larger field of STEM education, little is known about the practices that serve to support early educators’ pedagogy and related conte

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Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

  • Preschool Teachers’ Knowledge, Perspectives and Practices in Stem Education: An Interview Study (2021) · doi

    Significant role in achieving the goals of STEM education is played by the teacher, who scaffolds the learning process, builds a creative learning environment, provokes children with open questions and guides them to test their hypothesis as young scientists, mathematicians, engineers and technology users.

    Keywords: learning significant role achieving goals stem education played teacher scaffolds process builds creative environment provokes
  • Integrated <scp>STEM</scp> conceptualizations among teachers following a professional development program (2025) · doi

    Comparisons with the lesson plans and the further study of the conceptions through their distributions showed a limited attention for the broader local and social context, identifying and improving design solutions, engaging in reflection on STEM knowledge and skills, content integration with technology and mathematics knowledge and skills as opposed to assigning supportive roles, exposure to STEM careers and non‐STEM disciplines, and ways to foster a wide array of complex 21st century skills.

    Keywords: stem skills knowledge comparisons lesson plans further conceptions distributions limited attention broader local social context
  • Engineering to understand: reflections on a learning and teaching partnership for preservice early grades teachers and preschoolers (2021) · doi

    Even with increasing calls for both researchers and educators to attend to the “E” in STEM from within the larger field of STEM education, little is known about the practices that serve to support early educators’ pedagogy and related content knowledge of engineering design.

    Keywords: educators stem even increasing calls researchers attend within larger field education little known practices serve
  • Examining S-T-E-M Teachers’ Design of Integrated STEM Lesson Plans (2024) · doi

    To address this gap in the literature, we examined the design of STEM lesson plans by in-service secondary teachers ( n = 26) from all S-T-E-M disciplinary backgrounds who participated as members of a learning community in the context of a 7-month professional development program comprised of 13 small-group sessions.

    Keywords: address literature examined design stem lesson plans service secondary teachers disciplinary backgrounds participated members learning

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