ED 5810 - STEM Ed. Foundations & Philosophy of Integrative STEM Education

Credit Hours: 3

This course provides practicing teachers with the conceptual and practical knowledge to enhance their current professional instruction through providing integrative STEM teaching and learning experiences. Candidates will explore current perspectives of how integrative STEM is taught in schools, engage in rich collaborative inquiry projects, and investigate how integrative STEM teaching and learning can enhance their classroom instructional practices while meeting the needs of all learners. The nature of STEM education disciplines, effective STEM pedagogy and teaching strategies, integrative STEM learning, and innovative problem-based instruction utilizing the engineering and design process will be examined.