Exploring STEAM Identity through Personal Inquiry
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Session description
Purpose & objective
The main purpose of this presentation is exploring the complexity of Identity
Who we are?
Who are our learners?
How well do we know our learners to cater to their diverse needs?
The first step towards knowing and understanding others is knowing and understanding ourselves – Self / Identity.
Embark on this Personalized Inquiry Journey to unpack and shape the STEAM Identity as Individuals and as Communities, that helps in building relationships, promoting global contexts and fostering student agency by following Inquiry-based education model:
Provocation – Connecting to Prior Knowledge
Personal Inquiry - Unpacking & Shaping of STEAM Identity
Connecting to Global Thinking - ‘Do we see the big picture?’ 'Commonalities and Diversities?'
Outline
Content and activities: Using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines, the Complexity of STEAM Identity will be explored through images, videos, texts and virtual templates which will be provided in the attendee resources folder
Time: 10 Minutes on each component of STEAM Identity
Process: Picture Provocations, Videos, Digital Templates
Supporting research
Books:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m49ATitOt7ohwuv9Cjdm7dlMNkc3RF5X0qMkk8wvUK8/edit#slide=id.g11f45bfab25_0_58
Authors:
Erica Buchanan-Rivera - Identity Affirming Classrooms
Zaretta Hammond - Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain, Laura E.Pinto - From Discipline to Culturally Responsive Engagement
Donna L.Miller - Honoring Identities: Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities
Jacie Maslyk – STEAM Makers
Wendy Ward Hoffer - Cultivating Stem Identities: Strengthening Student and Teacher Mindsets in Math and Science
Websites:
https://www.identitycentered.com/
https://blog.heinemann.com/what-is-a-stem-identity
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/resources-for-stem-courses/
Session specifications
Laptop: PC
Connected Learner
- Develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.
Collaborator
- Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
Empowered Learner
- Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.