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How to Advocate for STEM Education in Your School

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Course Content

Getting started

Getting started

01.

Introduction

02.

Set some learning goals

03.

Meet your STEM expert

Understanding the value of STEM

Understanding the value of STEM

04.

Why is STEM important

05.

Why should we advocate for STEM in schools?

06.

What does advocacy for STEM mean

07.

Imagine if...

What does successful STEM education look like?

What does successful STEM education look like?

08.

What might a successful STEM program look like?

09.

What are other schools doing?

10.

Focus STEM programs on the local community

11.

Networks to maintain STEM advocacy momentum

How to advocate for STEM

How to advocate for STEM

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Think beyond the silos

13.

Celebrate failure

14.

Start early

15.

Advocating for STEM budget

16.

Engaging experts

17.

Make it authentic

18.

Overcoming challenges

Your STEM teaching

Your STEM teaching

19.

Cool lesson plans

Reflection

Reflection

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Reflection

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Taxonomy of learning

22.

Suggestions for collaboration

23.

Congratulations

Course Writers

Instructor 1

Krista Nisi is the Head Writer at Cool Australia and brings over 15 years of experience working in education, tertiary education and local government. She holds a Masters in Environment (Environmental Education) from the University of Melbourne. Krista looks for innovative ways to involve young people in early learning and school education by helping them explore, think about and engage with the world around them.

Instructor 2

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech start-up and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!

Instructor 3

In this course, you hear from Nick Pattison. Nick is a STEM specialist teacher who has been an advocate for STEM in schools in NZ schools, where he worked for 8 years and set up STEM programs in both primary and secondary schools where community, industry and schools work together. Nick has recently moved to Australia having recently started a new role as a STEM coordinator in Tulliallan Primary, Victoria.

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