CEDU 7773 Developing STEM Habits of Mind
The goal of this course is to extend the candidates’ experiences in the practices of STEM learning to further develop the engineering design process, authentic student research in STEM, and facilitate students’ thinking through experiences and reasoning in STEM. Candidates will build on their understanding from Course II and apply practices to the engineering design model, Project Based Learning, and authentic STEM research. Emphasis will be placed on application of technology to enhance students’ STEM experiences, the art of effective questioning, facilitating students’ thinking through experiences, and reasoning in STEM education be it computational, model-based, quantitative, systems, etc. The importance of community STEM partners be they educational, non-profit, or business, will be evaluated and aligned with educational goals to promote grant writing techniques that benefit all partners while candidates begin planning Course IV requirements that demonstrate the application of STEM teaching and learning.