STEAM Education

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) is an educational framework that brings reality into classroom by connecting different subjects together in a way that they will relate to both the real and businessworld and to each other. STEAM is the secondstep of STEM education, in which one incorporates the artisticand design-relatedskills and thinking processes to student-learning process. As such, STEAM educationis posed to be genderinclusive and accessible for all levels of technicalabilities. STEAM educationprovides an opportunity to formallyteach in a fun environment showing the relationships between subjects and real-life, therefore increasing sense of motivation, self-efficacyand problem solvingskills. It aimsto promote the learners’ motivation for learning and to educate people in order to help them become capable of solving multidisciplinary problems.

In addition, STEAM education is to play an important role when proposingsolutions to overcomethe well-researched and identified gender issuespronounced in many Western societies related to involvemotivate and retain girls and women in the fieldsof science, technology and math, including socio-cultural expectations, lack of female role models, relevancy of curricula, pedagogy and so forth. Furthermore, the inclusion of arts into the hard sciencescurricula is intendedto foster creativity and economic growth.

The main purposeof the course is to help teachers understand the importance of STEAM education and improve their science school lessons and science project in kindergarten and in primaryschool and also in the first grades of secondaryschool. Participants will be familiarized with the impact they can have on children by learningscience in a fun and innovative, yet educational manner. They will learn how to boost childrenimagination and natural gift of questioning, by implementing scientific way of thinkingand science methodology in their work. Our goal is also to help children find ways to make STEAM education a fun pathwayto children school life but also a precioustool in their educational street and life.

• Learn why STEAM education is important for literacy matters.
• Discover the advantages of creating a fun learning environment in teaching Science.
• Explore how children and especially girls can benefit from the incorporation of the Art in STEM education.
• Discover the importance of reality in STEAM Education.
• Learn how to teach children to develop scientific mind and attitude.
• Determine the skills of scientific enquiry processes.
• Learn the educational benefits of self-explanation.
• Discover creative low cost science experiments in class.
• Discover the usefulness of Arduino in STEAM education.
• Discover ways to integrate Art in STEAM education.
• Discover ways to involve the reality in STEAM education.
• Motivating more girls in the field of science.