University of Minnesota STEM Education Center

Sharing STEM Education research from Minnesota as the keynote presenter at the Society of Japan Science Teaching. Approximately 1000 Japanese educators attended the conference.

Our STEM lesson at the Shizuoka STEM Academy made the local news. A great opportunity to share our STEM approach with Japanese faculty, teachers, and students.

This week we provided STEM PD for 68 elementary teachers. A lot of hard work, but what a great group of teachers!

Check out a new publication on STEM Integration from STEM Ed graduate student Illana Livstrom

Integrated STEM in practice: Learning from Montessori philosophies and practices - Livstrom - - School Science and Mathematics - Wiley Online Library

As part of our continued collaboration with our partners at Shizuoka University, Professor Gillian Roehrig and Jeanna Wieselmann were in Shizuoka Feb 7 - 14 to share new research on STEM education. They presented STEM activities for middle school students at the Shizuoka STEM academy, presented workshops for teachers and faculty, and initiated discussion for a new partnership with Mishima Super Global High School.

The STEM Education Center just received a new grant from NSF - Persistence, Effectiveness and Retention Studies In STEM Teaching - in partnership with University of Nebraska - Lincoln and University of Massachusetts - Boston. This project will offer workshops for faculty interested in learning more about Track 4 Noyce proposals.

Dr. Elizabeth Ring-Whalen, Dr. Emily Dare, Dr. Gillian Roehrig and Jeanna Wieselmann were awarded third place for the Best Paper presented at the 5th International STEM conference in Brisbane, Australia. The paper presented was "Bringing STEM conceptions to life through integrated STEM curriculum implementation: A multiple case study in elementary science classrooms"

Check out a new research article from the UMN STEM Ed group -

The influences of group dialog on individual student understanding of science concepts

Starting the year off right with two brand new DRK-12 grants from NSF:
Translating a Video-based Model of Teacher Professional Development to an Online Environment - with colleagues at BSCS
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Design and Development of a K-12 STEM Observation Protocol with Emily Dare and Josh Ellis at FIU and Beth Ring-Whalen at St Catherines

Lots of exciting work ahead of us!

Welcome back STEM Education students - we are looking forward to an exciting Fall semester transforming STEM teaching and learning. Please take a moment to share your accomplishments from the summer. My highlight was the week at the European Science Education Research Association PhD summer school with Preethi Titu and Jeanna Wieselmann sharing research from two NSF projects

Congratulations to Dr. Lesa Clarkson! She is the recipient of the 2018 President's Community-Engaged Scholar Award, the highest award the University bestows for scholarship conducted in partnership with external communities.

President's Community-Engaged Scholar Award System-Wide Recipient Lesa Covington Clarkson

Exciting things happening in the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences!

UMN program aims to reduce inequality in STEM More than 20 biology instructors from universities across the country gathered at the University of Minnesota Saturday to brainstorm solutions to inequity in science, technology, engineering and math.