The teacher PD workshop focused on student-directed, problem-based learning through collaborative STEM projects. It highlighted integrating STEM education with subjects like history and social studies to solve real-world problems. Workshop presenters discussed principles like giving students something to do rather than just learn, promoting student agency, creativity, and learning with purpose. The goal is for students to engage with their community and become citizens of the world who can solve problems.

1. Teacher PD Workshop
1st December 2021

2. Chee Wong
E2 Young Engineers

3. Learning with purpose
Kim Flintoff
TIDES COORDINATOR
PETER CARNLEY ACS

4. PLANT A SEED

6. “WE ONLY THINK
WHEN WE ARE
CONFRONTED
WITH PROBLEMS”
JOHN DEWEY

8. “I have a dream that has not yet been realized; I
would like students, not to learn what their
teachers teach them, but to be people who solve
problems in the outside world that their teachers
bring to them…
This is actually a radical way of learning, I want
students to be citizens of the world.
– Dorothy Heathcote

9. STEM MAKES
SURE YOU DO THE
PROJECT RIGHT,
HASS MAKES
SURE YOU DO THE
RIGHT PROJECT.

11. • COLLABORATION
• CREATIVITY
• PROBLEM-SOLVING
• PERSONAL LEARNING
• GLOBAL AWARENESS

15. STEM4INNOVATION.ORG

18. “GIVE THE PUPILS SOMETHING TO DO,
NOT SOMETHING TO LEARN;
AND THE DOING IS OF SUCH A NATURE AS
TO DEMAND THINKING;
LEARNING NATURALLY RESULTS”
JOHN DEWEY

20. • Health and Wellbeing
• Technology and Exploration
• Food security, Primary
Production, Agriculture
• Life on Earth
• Education, Culture, Community,
Peace and Harmony
• Industry, Infrastructure, Smart
Cities, and the World of Work
STEM4INNOVATION PROGRAM TRACKS

21. Student-directed
engagement in community-
linked STEM integration
through collaborative
challenge-based learning.
Kim Flintoff
Felix Abbott
Stephanie Beaumont Cabrera
Byron Silchinger
Caleb Whyte

22. • STUDENT AGENCY
• POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE
• CONNECT BEYOND THE SCHOOL GATE
• REAL STAKEHOLDERS
• CONTEXT FOR LEARNING
• LEARN WITH PURPOSE
• LEARNING LEADS AND CURRICULUM FOLLOWS

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