Cluster 4 explores innovative assessment methods in STEM education. The first session examines how assessment aligns with educational practices across educational contexts and presents tools to enhance student thinking, reasoning, collaboration, and problem-solving. The second session introduces frameworks for assessing…
This cluster begins with an overview of educational competences, focusing on digital skills, particularly 3D printing and AI in STEM. The second session introduces escape games in STE(A)M, offering resources and methods for building digital competencies through student-created escape games….
The “Diversity and Inclusion” cluster starts with an introduction to raising awareness about diversity in STEM education, presenting teaching strategies from critical postmodern science pedagogy. The second session focuses on redesigning tasks for inclusion, with participants preparing an activity and…
Cluster 1 addresses ways to deal with sustainability in STEM education. The first session highlights the importance of sustainability and its educational value, especially through socio-scientific contexts. The second session covers inquiry-based approaches, guiding participants in re-designing closed tasks. The…
This module aims to give student-teachers the opportunity to reflect on assessing student learning in SSI-based lessons. They are presented with an example of an environmental SSI and engage in the inquiry process, experiencing both learning and assessment firsthand. The…
In this module, future teachers learn to support students in addressing complex environmental SSIs using a scaffolding framework. The topic “forest and climate change” serves as an example, connecting with the life experiences of both future teachers and their students….
Module 10 helps future math teachers design SSI lessons, building on content from earlier modules. It introduces active teaching methods, adapted for math and interdisciplinary contexts. Teachers will learn how to redesign existing lessons or create new ones that incorporate…
In this module, future teachers learn how to design a lesson around the plastic dilemma, combining research on socio-scientific issues (SSI) and education for sustainable development (ESD). It incorporates inquiry-based learning and presents current research on plastic waste, aiming to…
In this module, future teachers explore how beliefs, narratives, cultural backgrounds, and identities influence students’ engagement with environmental SSIs and impact their own teaching. Through case studies and a questionnaire, they will examine beliefs and design lessons that account for…
In this module, future math and science teachers are introduced to Environmental Socio-Scientific Issues (EnvSSI) linked to educational goals. It prepares them to identify points in the curricula where EnvSSI can be addressed and navigate curriculum requirements when integrating these…
