Educational Resources & Tech Tools 06/22/2016

• Deepening Discussion of STEM for Young Learners, Part 1

  • Clements highlighted the importance of shifting teacher focus from grade level objectives to long-term trajectories, spanning from birth through career, that emphasize each step of the learning process.
  • fostering STEM trajectories, integrated across learning domains, can help ensure student achievement into high school, college, and beyond.
  • high performing systems find ways to create a long-term vision that can be sustained across political cycles, align different parts of the system — curriculum, teacher training, and assessment — so they work together rather than against each other, focus enormous attention on building front-line capacity and involve other sectors in supporting children.”

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.