Teacher Professional Learning Brochure

TEACHER ENGAGEMENT Support Services

ABOUT

STE(A)M Truck It

is

the

mission

of

STE(A)M

Truck

to

immerse

students

and

teachers in hands-on STEAM content through high-tech and low-tech tools, unleashing their creativity to ensure that they can design the lives and future communities of their dreams.

STE(A)M Truck believes that the zip code in which a child was born

should

not

determine

whether

he/she

has

access

to

science, technology, engineering, art, and math education.

Access

to

hands-on

building,

tinkering,

and

the

curriculum

offered through STE(A)M Truck® can increase access to STEM careers and build the skills critical for long-term success in the real world.

ABOUT TEACHER ENGAGEMENT

STE(A)M Truck’s Teacher Engagement Department balances advocacy and inquiry through hip-to-hip professional learning. It is our passion to collaboratively partner with and support teachers' continual growth in STEAM content and pedagogy.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES (PLEX)

STE(A)M Truck’s Professional Learning Experiences invite educators into meaningful learning that is reflective, intentional, and engaging in the areas of STEAM/STEM, Project Based Learning (PBL) and Maker Education.

Educators will walk away with new strategies, tools, and a different lens to look through as they facilitate student learning experiences and build new experiences for themselves.

COACHING

The STE(A)M Truck Coaching framework promotes transformative change and fosters improvement through supporting teacher application in cross-grades curriculum, teachers collaborate with coaches in an equal partnership to build a cohesive instructional plan of action for Project Based Learning and STEAM Education.

Professional Learning Experiences

PBL SPARK Pathways PBL: HOW APPLIED PBL PBL: WHAT AND WHY AND MAKER TOOLS

Would you be

How does PBL look

interested in

in action?

building your

Join this immersive

knowledge around

hands-on tools session

the fundamentals

that will demonstrate

of project-based

how a makerspace

learning?

learning environment

Join us as we take an

promotes a high-quality

introductory deep dive

PBL experience for

into the essential

your learners.

elements of projectbased learning as well as best practices.

PBL Deep Dive Pathway PBL: HOW APPLIED PBL

PBL: COLLABORATION

AND MAKER TOOLS

AND PLANNING

PBL: WHAT AND WHY

Is your school ready to dig deep and begin planning an awesome PBL experience?

Use this handson/minds-on session to work collaboratively to design and draft a semester PBL learning experience for your students.

Professional Learning Experiences STEAM Education

STEAM IS LIT

ART INTEGRATION

Are you wondering

Curious to know

how to be

how art and STEM

#FullSTEAMAhead in

go hand-in-hand?!

your students

Take part in a session

learning?

Join this session to gain understanding of STE(A)M Education and how to prepare meaningful STE(A)M experiences that

about planning instruction that engages students in various art forms and allows them to actively process what they are learning.

support and cultivate STE(A)M with your students.

Maker Education MAKER DESIGN &

“MAKING” LITERACY

PLANNING

VISIBLE

Do you need support

Are you seeking new

in creating a

ways to engage your

functional

students in hands-on

makerspace for your

literacy lessons?

school or classroom?

Be a part of a session that

Engage in a session that will support you in creating an actionable plan to identify, build, and sustain a makerspace at your school.

will combine maker education and literacy to create a teaching toolkit of instructional practices for meaningful and connected literacy learning.

INTRODUCTION TO

ROLE OF THE

TINKERCAD

MAKER EDUCATOR

Wondering how to

COMING SOON!

prepare students for

What's a maker

advanced

educator, and why

manufacturing

would I want to be

concepts?

one?

Join this session where you'll learn how to create models with TinkerCAD and learn about emerging concepts & applications within 3D modeling.

Mr. Ashley Love CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS The training from STE(A)M Truck for City of the Future, I thought it was very informative, very engaging. As an educator, I've been through a lot of trainings and I can say that this is by far one of the best trainings I've been to.

The

timely.

staff

was

very

The

training

professional.

was

something fresh and new.

very

They

relevant

were

and

it

very was

CONTACT

STE(A)M Truck Schedule Your Professional Learning Experience Today

678-223-3707

TEM@steamtruck.org

www.steamtruck.org

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We would love to bring you along on our STE(A)M Truck journey!