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STEAM for Specialists

Defining Role of Specialists in STEAM: 

Understand your role as a Content Specialist has not changed! Instead, you are helping students make organic connections between content areas and are availing yourself as a resource for other teachers. For STEAM to truly work and benefit students, it must include teachers of all subject areas working together to build a school mindset!

 

How can I help students connect what we are doing in our classes to the STEAM mindset?

*One may work better for your subject area than others and that is okay!

 

1. Connect to PBL: Problem-based learning:

                Set up a task for completion as a problem similar to PBL.

                Ex: You are an artist who has been commissioned to create a sculpture to support reuse and recycling for a local organization.

                      You are a fitness trainer who has been hired by help a local company with develop an exercise routine to promote health in an office setting.

                      You are a musician charged with designing a video/short presentation to teach a beginner basic scales on your instrument.

 

2. Connect the Engineering Process to your Processes:

                Reinforce correlation between what students do and this thinking process.
                                                                                                                      
                 See the STEAM main page for examples!



3. Connect with vocabulary and content area standards (Science, Math, Technology):

                  Ex: In STEAM challenges and content standards, students often “use tools” and do things like “create”, “demonstrate”, “explore”, “identify”, etc.  Can your subject area relate?

 

 

Actions in Review:
  • Familiarize yourself with the existing STEM/STEAM program in your school and the Cobb Stem/STEAM website

  • Connect to the STEAM mindset (using a method that works for you)

  • Avail yourself as an Specialist as a resource for other teachers (offer collaboration at your comfort level)


 

 

 

 

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