Engaging Eager and Reluctant Learners

STEM Learning in Action

By (author) Dennis Adams, Mary Hamm

Publication date:

08 March 2017

Length of book:

170 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475834451

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning. There are many practical ideas and lesson plans that will help teachers reach both eager and reluctant learners. The suggestions for STEM curriculum and instruction are research based and standards driven. This book looks at collaborative learning, differentiation, and diversity all the while building instruction in the STEM subjects and good hands-on materials. This is done in a way that is designed to help every student feel successful and part of the class as a whole. It shows a deep respect for the unique relationship between teachers and their students as they try to navigate their way into the future. Suggestions are designed to help learners question, analyze, interpret, problem solve, and discover. The STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math are essential to understanding the world of today and the world of tomorrow. The authors view is that it takes more than innovation alone; for innovation to be useful, products of the imagination must be arranged in ways that allow them to be used to solve real world problems.

Preface
Chapter 1: Basic STEM Concepts: Providing Different Avenues to Understanding
Chapter 2: STEM Instruction
Chapter 3: Science and Mathematics: The Power of Inquiry and Problem Solving
Chapter 4: Engineering and Technology: Imaginatively Integrating STEM Subjects
In the Classroom
Chapter 5: STEM: Past, Present, and FUTURE
Chapter 6: Evaluating STEM Learning: Informative Assessment, Lesson Plans and Activities

To engage a wide range of learners, from reluctant to eager, can be a daunting task, especially in subjects that some students may find difficult and challenging. Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm take a research-based approach at engaging students of all learning types to the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. Focusing on teamwork in the classroom, Adams and Hamm have created a guide for a more active and participatory classroom, with sample math activities, online resources, engineering activity ideas and more to help create this more active, team-building classroom. Written in a teacher friendly style, ripe with analogies and examples, this book will show teachers how to emphasize teamwork so students of all learning types will become curious and find answers together in our ever-evolving world.