Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook offers practical guidelines for integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into the elementary classroom in the context of addressing real-world problems, and cultivating in students high-level thinking and problem-solving skills. Designed to equip teachers and future teachers with tools to create and implement standards-based STEM curriculum and cognitively demanding tasks, author Sherri Cianca offers hands-on, easily implemented strategies that foster student reasoning, autonomy, and humanity.
This fresh approach to STEM teaching empowers teachers (preservice and inservice) and other leaders to better understand the standards and better design effective instructional practices. The chapters work together to advance teachers' abilities to achieve mastery-level understanding of content, translate standards into student-friendly curriculum, and create a robust learning environment. Each chapter contains probes to uncover incomplet
Trade Review
‘In this outstanding book, Sherri Cianca presents elementary teachers of STEM with a comprehensive and practical guide to enable them to better understand, teach, and assess student understanding of integrated STEM subjects. Dr. Cianca effectively explains and illustrates how teachers can develop a STEM teaching mindset and create cognitively challenging learning tasks that engage all students in solving real-world problems. Highly recommended!’
--Larry Ainsworth, Author of Prioritizing the Common Core and "Unwrapping" the Common Core
This book is a result of years of insightful research and application of theory into practice. Cianca looks at STEM teaching and learning through the lens of integrating content and pedagogy and offers a rich blended model that is organic and free from the arbitrary traditional divisions. Simply put, the book is a valuable resource for all educators.
--Chris Moynihan, Author of Math Sense: The Look, Sound, and Feel of Effective Instruction and Common Core Sense: Tapping the Power of the Mathematical Practices
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. STEM Education
3. Priority Standards
4. Unpack Content Standards
5. STEM Learning Practices
6. STEM Transdisciplinary Integration
7. Planning STEM Tasks
8. STEM as Pedagogy
