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Every country needs a national STEM teacher corps
The US National Science Foundation has initiated the National STEM Teacher Corps program to support STEM teachers. Nancy Butler Songer, Associate Provost of STEM Education, discusses her efforts to assist primary school teachers in guiding young children to create solutions for local environmental issues.
How do we prepare our youth for a world of big data?
Nancy Butler Songer, Associate Provost of STEM Education at the University of Utah, considers the importance of developing primary and secondary school programs in STEM fields that support students in developing the competencies with big data.
STEM programs: Encouraging an early start with engineering design
Nancy Butler Songer, Associate Provost of STEM Education at the University of Utah, highlights the importance of introducing STEM programs to younger students.
The iterative science and engineering model (ISE)
Solving STEM challenges requires deep engagement with phenomena. Interdisciplinary STEM discoveries often advance through a fluid and messy process where scientists and engineers toggle between scientific investigation, problem generation, and engineering design to generate multiple solutions that are shared with and evaluated by others.
Youths’ solutions to local invasive species
Educating students about real-world, issues such as local invasive species aims to encourage wider engagement with STEM.
Youth as essential problem-solvers of our futures
Nancy Butler Songer, Associate Provost of STEM Education at the University of Utah, discusses the importance of supporting and including young people as part of environmental decision-making teams and key problem-solvers of our futures.
Inspiring STEM education focused on solutions
Nancy Butler Songer, from the University of Utah, makes a call for collective action to create a new curriculum focused on the design of solutions.
Why is engineering design important for all leaners?
Engineering design systematically identifies needs, wants, and problems and then devises solutions to address them. A central component of our work is guiding students in the engineered design of solutions to local environmental problems.
Eco-Solutioning Programs to Empower Student Learning in STEM Disciplines
Taking Action! Students’ generation of solutions to local environmental problems with STEM disciplines.
Usable STEM knowledge for tomorrow’s STEM problems
We need STEM knowledge programs in formal and informal settings that guide learners in applying STEM learning to the creation of solutions.
STEM: Preparing future problem solvers
Mr. F. Joseph Merlino, President of the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education, underlines the importance of preparing future problem solvers.
Taking Action: empowering youth generated solutions for communities
Finding and promoting a learning approach that empowers youth to generate solutions for their communities.
Training a new generation of problem solvers
How can education programmes develop the problem-solving skills of today’s schoolchildren and tomorrow’s STEM workforce?
