The following points can help you choose a more professional STEAM education institution-
1. Course R&D: Are funds and technology concentrated in R&D?
There is no system, no depth, and it is the essence of many STEAM institutions in the market to stay in scientific experiments or patchwork of teaching contents. Ordinary training institutions basically introduce a set of hardware from abroad, and then piece together some fun boxes. There is no systematic ability training behind, which is basically advanced toys. Individual institutions directly buy a set of foreign hardware and courses, which have not been updated and developed for several years, and the whole set of content has been eliminated abroad.
Therefore, in the research and development of STEAM education courses, high-quality educational institutions usually invest heavily in product research and development, accommodate core scientific and technological talents, set up their own curriculum research and development teams, and ensure the iterative updating ability of products!
2.？ Teaching staff: Do you have technical expertise and teaching experience?
On the surface, STEAM education has not been in China for a long time, and the teachers in the industry are mixed. Many institutions employ teachers with no relevant work experience in the early stage, which is far from the real STEAM teaching.
The purpose of teaching is to cultivate students' comprehensive ability with the help of subject knowledge. Teachers with technical background and teaching experience can guide students to move closer to the direction of subject thinking in class and play a subtle role.
3. Teaching emphasis: Pay more attention to inquiry learning than teaching AIDS?
In the form of teaching, parents are often confused by all kinds of teaching AIDS that look tall, but when judging the STEAM education course, the course content and teaching quality should be given priority. The course that pays attention to the teaching process is our ideal course, which conforms to the educational philosophy of STEAM.
The real STEAM education follows the process of scientific inquiry or engineering practice, and is a project-based course. The teaching method takes the project as the cycle, taking the children to explore or practice, and in this process, let the children construct their own knowledge and skills, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating their internal comprehensive ability.
4. Learning evaluation: Is there a clear learning evaluation system?
A high-quality STEAM education course needs a clear evaluation system, and the allocation of teaching objectives should be one third of knowledge, one third of technical ability and one third of comprehensive ability. Technical ability and comprehensive ability need clear teaching links to support.
STEAM education, which originated in Britain, is a complete course for all students in 3- 18, including ability assessment, teacher training and teaching resources.
This course was developed by the British National Steam Center and has been widely recognized around the world. It is completely matched with the knowledge points of the British national syllabus KS 1-4, and perfectly connected with the primary courses and secondary courses 1 courses of Cambridge International Examinations Committee (CAIE) under Cambridge University. At present, more than 200 schools are using it.
In China, the STEAM course of Zhigengxing is completely matched with the subjects of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics in the national new curriculum standards, which meets the development needs of Chinese students and is synchronized according to age, grade and knowledge points. On the basis of consolidating textbooks, we should apply what we have learned to lay a solid foundation for future college entrance examination study.