[Catalist] ACER: Challenges in STEM Learning in Australian Schools

[Michael McGarry]

ACER: Challenges in STEM Learning in Australian Schools

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Greetings CATALIST and ASTARIX 2.0 Subscribers,

May I respectfully recommend that all STEM teachers read this ACER Policy Insights Issue 7, May 2018 Report?

The ACER Report is previewed at this ACER URL:

URL 1: https://rd.acer.org/article/reversing-australias-downward-spiral-in-stem <https://rd.acer.org/article/reversing-australias-downward-spiral-in-stem>
The ACER Report may be accessed and downloaded from this ACER URL:

URL 2: https://research.acer.edu.au/policyinsights/7/ <https://research.acer.edu.au/policyinsights/7/>
Figure 1: Summary of student performance on national and international assessments, by year level. [Pages 5 and 6]

Figure 3: Interplay of challenges in building the STEM teacher workforce. [Page 10]

Report Conclusion [Page 16]

QUESTION 1: How will a “Move toward an integrated STEM curriculum” reverse Australia’s downward spiral in STEM?

QUESTION 2: Have the NSW Stage 4 Integrated STEM Project schools measured a significant increase in the number of students, especially girls, studying, for example, Physics [my specialist teaching discipline] in Years 11 and 12?

URL 3: http://stem-nsw.com.au/teaching-stem/stage-4-stem-projects <http://stem-nsw.com.au/teaching-stem/stage-4-stem-projects>
STELR = INNOVATIVE STEM TEACHING

I recommend the use of the STELR PROGRAM in Years 7 through 10.

URL 4: http://www.stelr.org.au <http://www.stelr.org.au/>
The STELR Equipment Packs are FANTASTIC.

URL 5: http://www.stelr.org.au/resources-and-equipment/ <http://www.stelr.org.au/resources-and-equipment/>
When I taught integrated STEM using the STELR Program in Year 9, ~ 10 years ago, I wished for an explicit identification of Key Science Conceptual Understandings, together with their relevant supporting ancillary Concepts, embedded within the STELR student booklets.

Colleagues may like to analyse the curriculum design of my Years 7 through 10 Australian Science interactive PDF curriculum modules, which can be free downloaded from the ASTA MOODLE URL 6: http://moodle.asta.edu.au <http://moodle.asta.edu.au/>?

The STELR Classroom on YouTube



URL 7: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHFPWI45vDR66aBlu8efZrA <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHFPWI45vDR66aBlu8efZrA>
 

Thanks and Best Wishes,

Michael John McGarry

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