The TEM education theme has been around for two years, and its origin is to focus on how to strengthen the effectiveness of creative education and cultural and artistic elements. Gerststein said: When it is discovered that there are some deviations and deficiencies in the promotion of the Mainland and Hong Kong, schools and teachers are generally confused and anxious, especially in preschool education, so we should extend our thinking on this innovative education in school-based curriculum planning, multiple teaching design and teacher popularization. All aspects of training issues.
Advocate low-cost, low-tech configuration, cross-disciplinary integration, to integrate conventional classroom learning mode, rather than in the existing extracurricular or in-class superimposed form to popularize and promote. At the same time, it is suggested that pre-school education can consciously highlight STEAM elements in the six content categories and five learning objectives covered by the curriculum guide, with thematic teaching strategies, and focus on life, scientific inquiry, knowledge use, creative imagination, collaborative learning and multiple expressions. STEM+ school-based education planning.
Through the learning of STEM courses, students will experience the learning process, pay more attention to their own participation in the learning process, understand knowledge through their own experience, explore knowledge, and finally apply knowledge flexibly. Through the trial and analysis of different knowledge, the students' thinking will be divergent, and the students' thinking will become more open, thus promoting the enhancement of students' exploration initiative. Through their own experience, students will become quick-thinking, able to actively conduct reasoning, judgment, and thinking analysis, so that students' cooperative learning ability, problem-solving ability, logical thinking ability, scientific innovation ability, reading comprehension ability and other multiple abilities are exercised And improve to promote the all-round development of students. Students’ diversified abilities will become the foundation of student growth, enabling students to master learning methods, learn scientific analysis, and then face any problems when facing difficulties, solve problems through their own analysis, and realize the improvement of students' comprehensive quality and comprehensiveness development of.
STEM curriculum resources do not simply superimpose the knowledge of the four subjects in a linear manner. Instead, the subject knowledge and skills that are originally independent and scattered in different fields are based on activities. Through various learning activities, students are guided to solve problems. In the process, realize the integration and application of interdisciplinary knowledge and methods. For example, in the theme course of "Herbivores and Carnivores" for young children, there are traditional teachers teaching the life habits and physiological structure characteristics of herbivores and carnivores, and there is also a corresponding Lego zoo building link to guide children in In the process of building, we understand which animals can be kept together, and then think of the design principles of zoos in real life.
To sum up, the teaching method mentioned above reminds me of the comprehensive science of the 3+X college entrance examination era. There will be some similar scenarios in the design of examination questions that require the integration of knowledge of multiple subjects. However, such propositions were both fresh and challenging for us at that time, because the science teaching we received in the middle school years was divided into various disciplines. The biology class only explained the "food chain" relationship, and zoo design seemed to be a more distant engineering proposition. . Although I thought I was a half-student at the time, my knowledge and understanding of the field of natural sciences is almost out of touch with what children are exposed to in STEM classes, and even lacks some common sense.