Internet plus teacher professional development project STEAM education and training project selected 15 experimental schools in Shandong Province. It is planned to actively explore effective ways to promote the in-depth development of STEAM education through three years of follow-up guidance, and train a group of capable, responsible and affectionate backbone teachers of STEAM education.
Develop a batch of high-quality curriculum resources and curriculum implementation strategies for STEAM education in various disciplines, cultivate a generation of future students with excellent moral character, superior ability, innovative development and engineering thinking, generate and batch high-quality resources for STEAM education, build a number of provincial demonstration schools for STEAM education, lead the regionalization and popularization of STEAM education in the province, promote the professional growth of STEAM teachers in the province, and establish an ecological development system for STEAM education in the province.
The kick-off meeting lasted for two days, and invited experts such as Yan, director of the teacher training department of Shandong Primary and Secondary School Teacher Training Center, professor of East China Normal University, and Wang Lixin, a provincial expert of STEAM education, to train the core team of the experimental school, and set up a project team, a division meeting, a resource development department, and a project center group and a collaboration group.
STEAM is the abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. STEM education is an interdisciplinary learning method, which integrates the teaching and learning of subject knowledge and skills in these five fields into a teaching paradigm, so that the single subject knowledge learned by students can be integrated into an interrelated and unified whole, and the obstacles that are not conducive to students' comprehensive application to solve practical problems in traditional teaching are eliminated.
At present, STEAM education in schools has been integrated in two dimensions, one is the integration of STEAM education and project-based learning in various disciplines, and the other is the integration of STEAM education and scientific and technological innovation education.
The school and the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined hands to create a scientific and technological research tour based on the STEAM project. At present, the school is planning to build a steam activity center of more than 400 square meters. Next, the school should design different STEAM project studios according to the specific STEAM project to provide good hardware support for the development of the STEAM project in No.3 Middle School.