The “Innovative Practices for Engaging STEM teaching” course aims to provide teachers, school counsellors and career advisers with resources and ideas to increase pupils’ interest for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects and careers. The course is designed in response to the worrying disengagement of young people from STEM subjects in school, and their decreasing interest in related careers. The “Innovative Practices for Engaging STEM teaching” course will last 8 weeks and will be animated by a European Schoolnet panel of experts who will contribute to it with their specific expertise and will engage participants through collaborative activities.
The course is structured into 8 modules which develop a learning path from the analysis of the reasons behind pupils’ disaffection for STEM to the development and experimentations with innovative practices to overcome it:
Module 1: Increasing student's engagement to study STEM
Module 2: Original teaching practices in the STEM classroom
Module 3: Innovative STEM teaching: using STEM resources from across Europe
Module 4: Discovering virtual & remote labs and how to use them in the classroom
Module 5: Exploring STEM in the real world - Virtual visits to research centers
Module 6: Helping students to understand what STEM jobs are - Career counselling
Module 7: Meeting real life STEM professionals
Module 8: Dealing with stereotypes
