In a new initiative, six teachers from Belrose Public School have been given the opportunity to sit in at Sydney University’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) Teacher Enrichment Academy.
The aim of the live-in, three-day course is to allow the teachers to explore exciting new ways of presenting and teaching all four STEM subjects to students.
According to the academy’s website, the training will provide participants with the resources, support, skills and knowledge to enable them to change the way the subjects are taught in the classroom.
The initiative, it stated, was instituted in an attempt to stop the decline in people studying STEM courses at high school and the resultant drop in people pursuing careers in science and technology.
According to the website:
“It (the course) inspires teachers to pursue their interests in science, mathematics and information technology, and to pass on that inspiration to their students.”
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The joint venture with Sydney University was strongly supported by Belrose Public School principal Belinda Zorian. She said that STEM education met with the strategic direction the school was heading in the next three years.