REPOWER High School STEM
21st-Century STEM Education Problems Cannot Be Solved With a 19th-Century Academic Structure
1st Edition
Published on 23. June 2022
192 pages
979-8-9855268-1-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Model STEM System described includes: * One 3-year course to replace the biology, chemistry, and physics courses * Instruction by teacher teams * A national service organization to help teachers * Regional STEM Service Centers * Instruction provided through projects and mini-courses * STEM Catalyst Specialists to provide students technical assistance and career information * STEM Catalyst Teachers to supplement teacher teams
More details
Person
The author's experience combines:
Education as technician (University of Cincinnati),
engineer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
and educator (The George Washington University)
with
Industrial work in a chemical laboratory and in production
equipment design
and
Over 30 years in workforce development at American Chemical Society
plus
6 years of college teaching and administration and 10 years of high
school science teaching
to propose a new structure for high school STEM that focuses on many formidable current problems
Content
- Intro
- Half-Title
- Full-Title
- Copyright
- Why Consider Change?
- Limited By Structure
- A Model Stem System
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 - Problems And Assumptions
- 2 - Brief Overview Of The Model Stem System (Mss)
- 3 - One Stem Course
- 4 - Student Projects
- 5 - Mini-Courses
- 6 - The Teaching And Learning Corps
- 7 - Stem Service Centers
- 8 - Stem Database Center (Sdc)
- 9 - Assessing Student Status And Progress
- 10 - Architecture And Safety
- 11 - Next Steps
- Appendices
- Appendix A - Building And Managing Student Teams
- Appendix B - The Planning Process
- Appendix C - Developing The Model Stem System (Mss)
- Appendix D - Brief Perspectives From A Long Career
- About The Author
