High Possibility STEM Classrooms

This book offers a new, research-based approach to STEM education in early, elementary, and middle years of schooling, concentrating on building teacher agency and integrated approaches in high possibility STEM classrooms. Based on large-scale research data from three long-term studies across 14 schools conducted in multicultural, disadvantaged, and urbanized communities in Australia, author Jane Hunter presents a globally minded, contemporary framework for powerful, integrated STEM learning. Theory, creativity, life preparation, and contextual accommodations are all utilized to help educators create hands-on, inquiry-led, and project-based approaches to STEM education in the classroom. A set of highly accessible case studies are offered that place pedagogy at the center of practice - an approach valuable for researchers, school leaders, and teachers alike. Ultimately, this text responds to the call for examples of what successfully integrated STEM teaching and learning looks like in schools. Concludingwith an evidence-based blueprint in the final chapter - demonstrating 10 directions for the future of Integrated STEM in school education - Hunter argues not only for high possibility STEM classrooms, but for high possibility STEM schools, reviving the dialogue around the future direction of STEM, STEAM, assessment, and development within the classroom setting. Jane Hunter is a researcher and teacher in K-12 education, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia--