NCTIES2020

ENHANCE your curriculum with a STEAM integration! This session will explore ways that building, making and creating can supercharge learning. Learn how to transform your lessons with the 4 C's of 21st century learning. We will learn how to incorporate CRITICAL THINKING to solve problems, CREATIVITY to teach our students how to think outside the box, COLLABORATION between teachers and support staff to achieve a common goal, and COMMUNICATION to learn how to best convey ideas. Participants should bring along a digital device and be prepared to do some cool hands-on STEAM activities.

Presenters are a STEAM school lead STEAM teacher and a district Instructional Technology facilitator. We will present briefly on the 4cs and how we help motivate teachers at our school to integrate STEAM, but we mainly want participants to experience some of the lessons we have helped create for students at our school. We plan to discuss the collaborative process that led to some of these lessons and show evidence (finished products, videos) of how students responded to them. We would be open to expanding this session to a longer workshop format if NCTIES organizers so wish.