Importance of STEM education and why teachers need to begin looking at breaking out of the traditional teaching model and start developing a new pedagogy.
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Importance of STEM Education for Prosperity and Innovation
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2. • The Chief Scientist’s report highlighted the
trends that all education systems are
grappling with –
• the performance of Australian students
against international benchmarks has stalled
or declined as has participation in senior
secondary science and advanced maths.
Why the need for STEM Education?
4. STEM Skills
• Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
• Most people think that these skills are
reserved for people with glasses and lab coats
• STEM skills are recognised as being important
to society and famous scientists like Albert
Einstein and Steve Jobs are revered.
• But we don’t see them as relevant to every
day life