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Filling the STEM-Education Gap
Hi future educators! For my research I wanted to look at access to STEM as an issue of social justice. Below you'll find the current gaps and under-representation in STEM, strategies for making STEM more engaging, and benefits of teaching STEM from a social justice perspective.
Hi future educators! For my research I wanted to look at access to STEM as an issue of social justice. Below you'll find the current gaps and under-representation in STEM, strategies for making STEM more engaging, and benefits of teaching STEM from a social justice perspective.
Karolina Wielowski
Black and Hispanic Individuals work mainly lower-paying
STEM Jobs.
Don't Sleep on STEM!
Uninspiring and irrelevant STEM based learning leads to minorty groups to often opt-out of STEM Fields.
Tip: Try to make STEM culturally relevant to the area you're teaching, some examples: enviornmental or food injustice.
Tip: Try to make STEM culturally relevant to the area you're teaching, some examples: enviornmental or food injustice.
The Hydroponic Food Project:
Youth tasked to design solar-powered gardening systems and distibute affordable, nutrient dense food to local markets.
Youth tasked to develop gardening systems suited for "barren" land. Barren: area with little to no vegetation
Skills Targetted: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Technology, Engineering, Business, and Economics
In addition to STEM underrepresentation in Urban Areas, there remains a gap amongst emerging bilinguals.
Reform Orientated Science
Reform Orientated Science
Teachers need proficient knowledge in science to be able to move beyond the curicula and apply concepts in a way that is relevant to students.
A List of Strategies:
A List of Strategies:
recognize levels on english proficiency
adjust language loads required for participation
introduce key vocab in the beginning of lessons
hands-on learning
use multiple modes of communication and demonstrations
Making STEM more engaging!!
Benefits of teaching from a social justice perspective:
Benefits of teaching from a social justice perspective:
provides motivation and engagment
students claim they want to meanigfully give back to their community by solving envoirnmental injustice
an equitable STEM field leads to new perspectives and ideas
A teachers perspective and strategy for trying to include social justice and STEM in her 4th grade classroom.
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