National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this blog, we share three case studies of teacher leaders. The teacher leaders whose cases we share in this blog (names are pseudonyms) participated in one of the teacher leader academies. For over twenty years, several mathematics education initiatives (Campbell et al., 2003; Martin et al.,

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

If this is how the makerspace is set up in your school, then your kids may not have access to the resources, materials, and tools when they need them, especially for STEM or STEAM. In the initial phase of defining the problem, the teacher involves learners to generate possible authentic problems within their local community.

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UDL Education Education STEM 110

User Generated Education

JULY 24, 2017

So it is no wonder that when learners are given hands-on tasks such as those common to maker education, STEM, and STEAM, they sometimes struggle with their completion. I’ve blogged about normalizing failure and mistake making in The Over Promotion of Failure: . Struggles are good. It is just a part of the learning process.

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Achievement Curriculum Learning Innovation 174

National Science Foundation

JULY 5, 2022

The committee also emphasized the need for professional learning experiences for teachers that enable them to effectively implement student-centered pedagogical strategies, and to allow students choice within curricular activities, so that they can build upon their personal funds of knowledge (Lopez, 2017).

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 40

National Science Foundation

APRIL 26, 2022

Yet running a scholarship program for prospective STEM teachers within an existing teacher education program comes with its own set of challenges, and requires taking a step back from the specific programmatic details in order to recruit, advise, and mentor teacher candidates into their profession. Recruitment. Productive Strategies.

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STEM Learning Mathematics Science 76

User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

With this mindset, he or she figures out creative ways to integrate maker activities into existing lessons and instructional activities. ” For subjects like science, this is a little easier as the labs that often accompany science lessons often have a hint of STEM or maker education. Financial, Economic: __.

Curriculum 72

Curriculum Education Education Creativity 72

User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The educator’s role has always been to model and demonstrate effective learning, but somewhere along the line, the educator’s major role became content and knowledge disseminator. provides methods and strategies that can be used by the educator to model effective making processes that have the potential to benefit their learners.

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Education Education Learning Physics 96

Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The syntax is the set of rules that defines how a Python program should be written and interpreted by both humans and machines. Implicit conversion for numeric types and booleans is well defined, so one may multiply a complex number by an integer without explicitly casting types.

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