STEAMTeach (STEAM Education for Teaching Professionalism) is a project funded with the support from the European Commision Erasmus+ Programme (2020-1-ES01-KA201-082102). The project will start in October 2020 and runs for 33 months.
Background
As a result of our early Erasmus+ project— Kids Inspire Kids for STEAM , we found teachers encounter a lot of difficulties to implement STEAM activities in their classrooms. Teachers are normally subject-specific and usually have never being trained on interdisciplinary approaches such as STEAM. They thus feel unconfident when applying this teaching approach in their classrooms. As suggested by the European Unnion and recent research, our educational systems require a STEAM Teaching Approach helping students to become well-prepared for the necessities of the current society. We live in a society led by technology that requires interpreting and analysing huge amounts of information from different disciplines. Nowadays, learning is just not about acquiring knowledge but also about developing skills to be able to integrate concepts and ideas from different fields, and to apply these skills in a variety of contexts. There is thus a priority for Promoting Innovative and Cross Disciplinary approaches to Teaching and Education.
Objectives
Our objectives for the project are to:
- Design a Transcultural Professional Development Framework
- Use such framework for developing and implementing Teachers’ STEAM Training Course Programmes
- Test the local and trans-cultural effectiveness of these STEAM programmes by assessing the instruction of our trained teachers in their classrooms with students.
To reach these objectives different activities and intellectual outputs are planned.
Consortium
The project brings together five universities in Spain, Hungary, Austria, Finland and Greece.
- Universidad de Cantabria (Coordinator)
- Budapesti Metropolitan Egyetem
- Universitat Linz
- Jyvaskylan Yliopisto
- Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon
Most of the partners have been working together in previous STEAM education projects. The possitive results obtained in the other projects lead us to continuum working on STEAM education and specifically focus on teacher trainning. STEAMTeach will also involve associated high schools and teacher training centres in the five countries.
This is a provisional website for the STEAMTeach project. An official webpage for the project will be launched by the consortium at the end of 2020.
