New Perspectives in Science Education
To Study the Impact of a STEM OER Course on Enhancing Teachers’ STEM Knowledge and Skill Competencies
Kavita Sanghvi, SVKM’s CNM School (India)
Ashwini Karwande, Department of Education, University of Mumbai (India)
Abstract
The world is confronted with numerous global issues such as climate change, terrorism, gender inequality, human rights violation, poverty, scarcity of fresh water and so much more. To address these problems, we require innovative solutions and integrated knowledge of STEM disciplines that can support the construction and implementation of impactful results. This has to commence at school level with the teachers building their own STEM competencies for classroom teaching so that they cascade it to students to enhace their competencies. The researcher created a STEM OER Course, ‘Build your STEM competency’ of four modules of duration 5 weeks for teachers to enhance their STEM knowledge and skills. The course was developed using the ADDIE model of Instructional Design and STEM Theoretical Frameworks. The researcher used a quasi-experimental design with school educators, assigning participants to experimental and control groups to assess the effectiveness of the course in enhancing their STEM knowledge and skill competencies for classroom teaching. The researcher used data collection tools for descriptive and inferential analysis and the results showed considerable progress on building teachers STEM competencies in the experimental group.
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Keywords |
#STEMcompetency #educators #STEMeducation |
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