Description –This is a community of practice (CoP) of professionals who work in early care and education environments serving birth through 5 years in Rural Pima North areas. This CoP focuses on providing high-quality professional development for educators to engage and empower their students with authentic, relevant, and developmentally appropriate learning opportunities while cultivating STEAM minds using hands-on lessons.
Learning Goals–
- Teachers will implement hands on and minds on engaging STEAM activities.
- Teachers will build their knowledge on how to cultivate STEAM minds.
- Teachers will learn to use all the supplies and equipment provided to implement the lessons and activities in their own classrooms the very next day.
- Teachers will engage with a wide variety of resources to use in their classroom.
- Teachers will learn the importance of STEAM and how we can build a STEAM foundation at a young age.
Philosophy:
STEMAZing fosters a learning environment where educators explore, question, and experiment, through hands-on investigations and open-ended problems, they develop the skills they need to implement STEAM in the classroom.
- For questions regarding this resource, please contact The STEMAZing Project.
- Contact Name: Amanda McPherson
- Phone No: 5207248395
- Email Address: amanda.mcpherson@pima.gov