An Integrated STEM Framework

Development process for secondary education

STEM education caters for all students. Teachers move through the framework by:

knowing their students, their needs and interests, STEM education caters for all students
evaluating current teaching and learning sequences, developing an integrated sequence for the STEM project
choosing the connecting concepts, ideas or theme and mapping to an appropriate STEM context
designing the common student task and various assessment checkpoints for students to demonstrate learning
targeting syllabus outcomes, highlighting skills students will require to be successful with the project work
planning assessment of the common student task with explicit quality criteria and success checklists
planning teaching and learning strategies, sequences for explicit teaching of certain skills required for the project
evaluating and modifying