1st Edition
Teaching Elementary STEM Education Unpacking Standards and Implementing Practice-Based Pedagogy
1. Introduction
2. STEM Education
3. Priority Standards
4. Unpack Content Standards
5. STEM Learning Practices
6. STEM Transdisciplinary Integration
7. Planning STEM Tasks
8. STEM as Pedagogy
Biography
Sherri Cianca is an Associate Professor and Student Teacher Supervisor at Niagara University in New York, USA.
‘In this outstanding book, Sherri Cianca presents elementary teachers of STEM with a comprehensive and practical guide to enable them to better understand, teach, and assess student understanding of integrated STEM subjects. Dr. Cianca effectively explains and illustrates how teachers can develop a STEM teaching mindset and create cognitively challenging learning tasks that engage all students in solving real-world problems. Highly recommended!’
--Larry Ainsworth, Author of Prioritizing the Common Core and "Unwrapping" the Common Core
This book is a result of years of insightful research and application of theory into practice. Cianca looks at STEM teaching and learning through the lens of integrating content and pedagogy and offers a rich blended model that is organic and free from the arbitrary traditional divisions. Simply put, the book is a valuable resource for all educators.
--Chris Moynihan, Author of Math Sense: The Look, Sound, and Feel of Effective Instruction and Common Core Sense: Tapping the Power of the Mathematical Practices
