TY - CHAP
T1 - Teaching engineering-focused STEM curriculum
T2 - PCK needed for teachers
AU - Fan, Szu Chun
AU - Yu, Kuang Chao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The core value of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is to provide the balanced opportunities of hands-on and minds-on learning. Engineering design is recognized as a core approach for implementing engineering-focused STEM curricula. This raises a need for science and technology teachers to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula. This chapter consists of four sections. First, to form the theoretical foundation of engineering-focused STEM curricula, literature related to STEM education is reviewed. Second, design modules for engineering-focused STEM curriculum are discussed. Third, the PCK needed for science and technology teachers to teach engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed. Fourth, a summary of issues and misconceptions of teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed, which provides useful guidelines on how to teach the curriculum.
AB - The core value of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is to provide the balanced opportunities of hands-on and minds-on learning. Engineering design is recognized as a core approach for implementing engineering-focused STEM curricula. This raises a need for science and technology teachers to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula. This chapter consists of four sections. First, to form the theoretical foundation of engineering-focused STEM curricula, literature related to STEM education is reviewed. Second, design modules for engineering-focused STEM curriculum are discussed. Third, the PCK needed for science and technology teachers to teach engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed. Fourth, a summary of issues and misconceptions of teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed, which provides useful guidelines on how to teach the curriculum.
KW - Engineering design
KW - Pedagogical content knowledge (pck)
KW - Stem
KW - Teacher education
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-0768-7_7
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-0768-7_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85085458507
SN - 9789811507670
SP - 103
EP - 116
BT - Asia-Pacific STEM Teaching Practices
PB - Springer Singapore
ER -