Full Description
Bridging the realms of educational technology and teacher education, this book offers instructional design models, strategies, and tools for online delivery of continuing professional development (CPD) for STEM teachers. Acknowledging that successful STEM education demands strategies grounded in specific instructional design frameworks, this complex integration of pedagogical strategies with teaching and facilitation practices creates unique challenges for developing effective online learning environments.
In this volume, editors Heejung An and Woonhee Sung have invited STEM teacher educators to share feasible models, strategies, and research-proven practices to enhance instructors' knowledge and practices and enable them to design, develop, and implement their own online CPD. To that end, chapters contextualize online STEM education course designs and teaching trends across degree-based continuing education, professional development, and teacher professional learning. The chapters focus on the most essential pedagogical components of STEM education CPD, including hands-on, real-world-based projects, learner practice and reflection, interaction with peers and instructors, as well as how to effectively design and deliver these elements. The practical applications in the various chapters demonstrate how online programs can use various technological tools to educate STEM teachers in online settings with a variety of STEM materials.
The book also provides concrete lesson plans that online faculty and CPD providers can apply in any teaching setting to strengthen STEM teacher educators' capabilities. Ideal for instructors of CPD who design and teach STEM-related educational disciplines, this unique collection responds to the need to bring online and blended learning to the STEM education community while maintaining quality and standards-based content acquisition.
Contents
Foreward Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Setting the Stage: Supporting STEM Teachers Through Online Continuing Development in a Diverse and Digitally Connected World Section 1: Desiging Effective Online Continuing Professional Development for STEM Educators: Models, Strategies, and Case Examples 2. Professional Development Pathways That Support Inclusion and Innovation: A STEAM Education Approach to Virtual Educator Training 3. The TMSR and 4-Ons Model: Design-Based Learning in Online Continuing Professional Development Integrating Arts in STEM 4. Online Professional Development on Integrating Literature into STEM Education to Create Meaningful Connections: The ATTACK Model 5. STEM Professional Development for K-12 Teachers: An Online Flipped Learning Model 6. Application of the R2D2 Model: Designing Online STEM Teacher Professional Development to Meet Diverse Learning Preferences 7. Radio JOVE Citizen Science Training Modules: A Self-Paced, Inquiry-Based Environment for Learning Science Through Radio Astronomy 8. TPACK-Informed Online Continuing Professional Development: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence Tools for Inquiry-Based STEM Instructions 9. Enhancing STEM Education Through AI-Infused Sustainability Lessons: The Design and Impact of an Asynchronous Online Professional Development for Middle and High School Science Teachers 10. Integrating Hazard Resilient Housing Into STEM Classrooms: Using the Model of Authentic Learning in Online Professional Development 11. Extended TPACK for Online Professional Development: Addressing the Dual-Layer Challenge of STEM Teacher Educators Section 2: Support Materials to Design Equitable Online Continuing Professional Development for STEM Instruction 12. Gender-Equitable Online STEM Teaching: Evidence-Based Rubrics for Inclusive Instruction 13. Open Educational Resources and Online Professional Learning Networks in STEM Education Postscript Index
