STEM & Professional Learning
MiddleWeb’s STEM Imagineering blogger Anne Jolly applies her expert knowledge about effective professional learning teams to STEM PD.
Author: Anne Jolly
Maker Schools: Classroom Tinkers & Inventors
The authors of “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom” share an exciting guest post at Anne Jolly’s STEM Imagineering blog. The tools and ethos of the maker revolution offer insight and hope for middle schools and for science and math studies, they say. “The breadth of options and the ‘can-do’ attitude is exactly what students need.”
Urgent Request: More STEM Girls Please!
STEM studies aren’t keeping up with STEM career opportunities. The solution? More girls! Anne Jolly has six new ideas to boost female interest & participation.
Increasing Parent Awareness about STEM Education
How can we do more to educate parents about STEM? Anne Jolly searches for a workable information model in her latest post at STEM Imagineering.
STEM Summer Activities!
Anne Jolly is campaigning for a STEM summer in which kids ask questions, seek answers, & design solutions to problems. She has 9 ideas for parents & others.
A MiddleWeb Chat with 2013 NTOY Jeff Charbonneau
Jeff Charbonneau, science educator & 2013 National Teacher of the Year, talks about STEM education & his relationships-first teaching philosophy.
How to Spark Student Innovation
Innovative thinking can be taught, says science educator Anne Jolly. She shares five related strategies to help spark student innovation in STEM classrooms.
STEM Teaching Means Teaming
Award-winning science teacher and e-mentor Caroline Goode explains the why and how of student teamwork in the STEM classroom.
Is Your STEM the Real Deal?
STEM educator Anne Jolly says that authentic, mature STEM programs can point to 10 basic outcomes. Does your program have the real-deal ingredients?
The 10 Essential STEM Teaching Practices
Becoming a STEM teacher means accepting the need to change traditional teaching methods and give up some control. Anne Jolly identifies 10 best practices.
