- To acquire knowledge on pre-primary school teachers’ key competences development needs for STEAM/ER education - To build, pilot-test, and validate the STEAMERs training program for VET trainers, which will work as an innovative training to train pre-primary school teachers to meet the current and future needs for STEAM/ER early childhood education - To support VET training efforts in the frames of digitalised and creative training and learning for the professional development of pre-primary teachers on STEAM/ER knowledge, skills, and key competences - To assign a key role to pre-primary education teachers to contribute in promoting and stimulating action-oriented transformative learning through creative, critical, and problem-solving thinking.
A lot of aspects of daily life are tied to technology-based STEAMs, therefore the need to improve and expand the STEAM education is considered key to maintain a competitive edge in the 21st century. Research confirms that exposing the youngest students (beginning at the preschool level) to STEAM experiences, encourages critical thinking skills, increases science literacy, and promotes creative problem solving. These experiences can establish a long-term passion for STEAM subjects, as well as general academic success across all disciplines. Unfortunately, due to the rapid developments experienced, most teachers and especially pre-primary teachers feel illiterate in modern science and technology because they cannot keep up to the current trends of ICT. In this framework, the project objective is to help pre-preliminary teachers to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and key Competences in STEAM and Educational Robotics