STEMkey - Teaching Standard STEM Topics with a Key Competence Approach

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Bring out the STEMbest in your students: not only deliver STEM subject knowledge but foster their skills and attitudes to use gained knowledge in various real-life contexts and responsible decision-making processes in equal measure. Make yourself and your students STEM key competent and max your STEM potential out!

STEMkey has been launched to provide solutions to support the EU’s Key Competence Initiative in the scope of STEM education.

STEM education at school traditionally delivers isolated subject knowledge like functions, human anatomy, and chemical reactions. This entails two major challenges: the isolation of knowledge and the isolation of subjects.

STEMkey works on these challenges as follows:

  • Through the EU's Key Competence Framework, STEM teaching is guided away from the sole purpose of the transfer of knowledge of a single STEM subject. This no longer measures up to today's and tomorrow's challenges. Instead, STEM teaching must allow the development of skills and attitudes to use gained knowledge in various real-life contexts and responsible decision-making processes in equal measure.
  • A major part of this is to use an integrated STEM education approach, which means, STEM education across disciplines and in connection with “the world outside”. Hardly any decision in real life can be made within a box. We must think outside boxes and develop an understanding of how everything is connected, how systems evolve, and how we can improve systems, how we can improve life. In this context, integrated STEM teaching and learning is the way to go, as it demonstrates the linkages between each STEM subject, each STEM topic and, in the bigger picture, each solution in the context of Maths, Science, Engineering and Technology.

STEMkey’s contribution to STEM education’s “isolation issues” consists of modules to be used in Higher Education programmes and training for future STEM teachers, covering Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Technology and Maths. The modules exemplarily tackle standard topics from these disciplines (e.g. light representing Physics education, algorithms representing Informatics or the periodic system representing Chemistry). Each module applies variously tested and proven innovative educational approaches, such as inquiry-based learning, digital learning or real-life contextualisation.

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