STEM and Career Exploration through the Far North Fab
Abstract
At Delta Elementary School, our teachers do their best to teach science as regularly as time allows. Due to state and federal mandates on ELA and math however, time to teach it properly and to utilize all of the materials we have through our Fab Lab and Coding resources is a huge issue. Our teachers teach the National Grade level Science Standards as much as they can, but the amount of quality, instructional time spent varies from teacher to teacher and rarely do all of the standards get covered consistently. John Hattie’s research labels teachers as the greatest source of variance that can make a difference in student achievement beyond the students themselves. With the exciting new focus of our high school and junior high on career pathways and Career and Technical Education (CTE), the inability for our district’s elementary school to build a strong foundation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) is a concern. We need a solid feeder program for CTE at DES. We have the materials, but need a passionate, qualified teacher to go into every classroom and teach STEAM to every student weekly for 40 minutes while the regular classroom teacher is there to help. This will not only expose every student at DES to science, engineering, coding, and our fab lab, but it will facilitate in professionally developing the regular classroom teacher in all things STEAM as well.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 24, 2024
- Source ID
- HE12542415037
Entities
People
- Michael D Lee
Organizations
- Department of Defense Education Activity
- United States Department of Defense