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STEM Teaching Strategies

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Learn student-centered strategies for STEM subjects.

Effective teaching starts with classroom strategies grounded in solid pedagogy. Effective STEM teaching challenge students to innovate and invent while integrating math, science and technology concepts with other subject areas.

Learn how to use inquiry-based methods and STEM teaching strategies to engage students and encourage a student-centered classroom environment.

Details

  • Date: June 26, 2008
  • Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
  • Grade Levels: 6-12

Workshop content developed by the Texas Tech University Center for the Integration of Science and Education Research with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

What You Take Home

  • Strategies for using Concept Development (inductive), Concept Attainment, Suchmann Inquiry and other inquiry-based teaching methods
  • Experience evaluating the success of student-centered learning strategies for building student understanding in STEM content areas in a simulated classroom environment
  • 0.6 continuing education units (CEUs) from Texas Tech University
  • 6 hours Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit

About the Instructor

Susan Talkmitt

Susan Talkmitt is the associate director of curriculum and instruction for the T-STEM Center. Susan has developed model curriculum and presented hundreds of workshops across the nation. In recognition of her contributions to K-12 science education, she received the 2007 Skoog Cup from the Science Teachers Association of Texas.

As an instructor in the College of Education, Susan teaches science methods courses for secondary and elementary pre-service teachers as well as a secondary education curriculum course. She is also an associate director of the Center for the Integration of Science and Education Research (CISER) at Texas Tech University.

This is Susan's second year to train teachers with the T-STEM Center.