my team and i are happy and excited to share that we have been invited to be part of the teaching team of the National Institute of Education's Certificate Programme in STEM Curriculum Development, in its inaugural semester later this year.
specifically, we will co-teach part of INS4423, a 4 AU course titled Approaches and Emerging Technologies in STEM Education. INS4423 is designed to help participants to acquire some basic knowledge about emerging technologies in STEM fields and ways to integrate them into the design of STEM lessons in their capstone project.
the course description of INS4423 reads: STEM curriculum should ideally provide learning contexts for students to acquire cross-disciplinary knowledge in authentic and applied contexts. STEM inventions and innovations are constantly emerging and evolving and hence, having current knowledge of emerging technologies in STE fields will be useful in STEM curriculum design, teaching and assessment. In this course, participants will acquire basic knowledge about emerging technologies in STEM fields and apply them to the design of integrated STEM lessons. They will explore different types of cognitive processes in STEM inquiry to create problem-, solution- and user-centric STEM curriculum for students.
the STEM Curriculum Development certification is hosted by meriSTEM@NIE.
The objectives of the Certificate in STEM Curriculum Development are to provide professional development for teachers to:
- strengthen teacher readiness to teach integrated STEM lessons by equipping them with theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to design and enact cross disciplinary STEM lessons in an authentic and applied manner; and
- establish a team of STEM educators who take leadership in supporting and nurturing other STEM educators to develop STEM curricular and teaching competencies in formal and informal learning contexts.
we give thanks to God for this opportunity.
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