The ''LET'S STEM IT'' partnership has been conceived against the background of the current crisis and the lack of growth and youth’s unemployment that have been upsetting strongly Europe’s society in the last 5 years. Education is therefore called to respond to the urgent need of highly skilled engineers and technologists and labor supply must match demand as recognizsed in the Flagship initiative “An Agenda for new skills and jobs” in the EUROPE 2020 strategy of the EC. The General objective of the LET'S STEM IT project is to guide increasing Europeans' interest and skills in STEM and to provide the schools with the necessary tools in order to engage their students, teachers and other actors, in related activities. The project aims to develop teachers’ and educators’ competences - especially integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) teaching skills, based on collaborative problem-solving (CPS) - sharing experiences among countries involved in the project (the project was compatible with PISA 2016 aims to evaluate students’ performance in mathematics, science and financial literacy; performance in problem-solving and reading). Specific Objectives of the project: -Offer teachers collaboration in creating innovative STEM school curricula -Contribute to developing and implementing innovative STEM education in order to enhance the quality of science teaching and learning –to develop teachers’ and educators’ integrated teaching skills, based on collaborative STEM education. -Develop a student-centered approach to STEM education, facilitating inquiry-based teaching, collaboration and active learning. –To explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment of students achievements –To guide teachers and educators, how to motivate children and inspire their passion for discovery and learning –To share experience of good practice on increasing students' interest in STEM and technical creativity; developing students’ skills of logical and critical thinking The ''LET'S STEM IT'' project is focused on the fact that the level of employability, competitiveness and wealth of our society will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. These have always been the EU’s most important assets. As the world becomes increasingly technological, the value of these national assets will be determined in no small measure by the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the EU. STEM education will determine whether Europe will be able to solve immense challenges in such areas as energy, health, environmental protection, and national security. It will generate the scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians who will create the new ideas, new products, and entirely new industries of the 21st century. The target group of the project - teachers and educators, who are not afraid of challenges and are seeking quality of teaching and learning and higher learning achievements of students in STEM education, are open-minded, communicative and collaborative, and are ready to provide meaningful learning experiences for 21st-century students. Participants will be science, mathematics, ICT, technology and design teachers from schools and directorate of educations(local authorities) and academics and lecturers from partner universities. Our main target group are teachers, of course also pupils, but also, school Principals, Policymakers, STEMcenters, parents, other institutions related to the school education. The Final beneficiriars will be the students who will carry Europe further. The main activities will undertaken: - 5 short-term joint staff training events - 2 Trans-national project meetings - Seminars -Local Trainings -Dissemination -E-conferance Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: The training comprises 8 hours of lectures and demonstrations and 15 hours of hands-on workshops. These sessions will be framed with field trips and hands-on outdoor activities that will regard innovative ways for creating links between schools, research centres and non-formal learning settings. Careful analysis of the present situation in terms of attractiveness of the STEM disciplines in the concerned partners at all levels of school education. This includes a collection of data, Inquiry-based learning, short-term joint training events within the involved corporate. Potential longer term benefits include the skills acquired by the students such as critical thinking and ICT skills will make them more employable in STEM related areas in the future. Innovative teaching resources created during the project will be available online after the project is finished for use by other teachers. LET'S STEM IT project will strengthen European integration by increasing cooperation across different institutions, and by bringing together different cultures. It will also promote the idea of European citizenship and the extended local community.
The science explosion, especially in the 21st century, directly affects the education system and expectations. In addition, one of the most important issues emphasized in the 2023 Education Vision of the Republic of Turkey; to employ highly qualified, well-educated individuals who are suitable for the profession as teachers, and to organize studies that will support their life-long development. All partners contribute developing and implementing innovative STEM education for teachers in order to enhance the quality of science teaching and learning. Throughout the implementation of the project, teachers and educators gained integrated teaching skills for STEM education, developed a student-centered approach to STEM education by facilitating inquiry-based teaching, collaboration and active learning. WEe succeded Developing different approaches (STEM Education) and methods in education with ‘LET’S STEM IT’ project applications, sharing innovative practices, implementing and developing different STEM activities in the international arena, evaluation studies for the improvement of post-implementation practices, sharing the education programs and methods applied by different universities, sharing the experiences gained.
Today, the environments in which educational institutions operate have a very rapid change and a constantly renewed dynamic. This situation makes our plans institutionally; has directed educational organizations and human resource management practices to focus on the competencies of educators. The definition of trained human being needed is changing due to the changes in social dynamics in the world in every period. In this respect, considering the EU 2030 Education Goals, our institution attaches great importance to the development of cooperation in increasing the quality, internationalization and mobility in the field of education and management.Recent reform movements in STEM education have been appreciated as a way of producing solutions for the global problems like increasing energy demand, climate change, destruction of fertile agricultural lands, decrease in clean water resources, starving, epidemic etc. In this respect, innovative STEM education practices implemented by teachers in K-12 classrooms provided increasing students' interest and carrier in STEM areas and developing students’ contemporary skills to help meet the needs of society.