Teacher Professional Development

About the Course

The Co-STEM professional development project is focused on supporting community and culturally relevant Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education among the rural communities and tribal nations of Northern Arizona.

Participants in the course participants:

  • Learn how to develop and structure Project-Based Learning lessons/units

  • Explore data visualization technologies to support student learning

  • Explore community-connected topics to anchor student learning

  • Co-design and implement student curriculum

  • Receive 56 hrs. of Professional Development credit

  • Earn a $1,600 Stipend

Co-Design Project-Based STEM Curriculum

As part of the teacher professional development, participants will work with their colleagues and computer science educators from Arizona State University to co-design a community project-based learning experience for their students. Teachers will help identify issues and topics in the communities where their students live that can be used as an anchor for learning. Course instructors will share tools, resources and strategies for integrating content learning in STEM and language arts into a process of asking and answering questions on their identified community topic.

Community Project-Based Learning in STEM integrates learning across disciplines.

Science: Engage with the science and engineering practices and grade-level science content

Technology: Learn how to use data visualization technologies to illustrate key ideas and findings

Engineering: Engage in engineering practices and the engineering design process

Mathematics: Modelling with mathematics and develop quantitative reasoning

Language Arts: Research, read, write, and talk about the project for a virtual capstone event