Teachers realising the role of STEM practices for the development of 21 st century skills

Nélia Amado (1) , Susana Carreira (1)

1 University of Algarve [Portugal]

The 21st Century Skills and Competences for New Millennium Learners have been shaping curriculum reforms and educational trends around the world, including in Portugal. In this article we discuss a theoretical perspective on integrated STEM education in which practices have a central place. We consider the current importance of developing professional development programs for teachers, including mathematics, based on a conceptual framework for promoting scientific, technical, and technological knowledge and practices. Our aim is to know how mathematics teachers experience STEM activities and how they evaluate the results of their implementation in the classroom. The study uses a qualitative methodology, in the context of a professional development program. The results show that teachers performed STEM practices in a proposed task and positively evaluated the effects of their students' work on the task, namely in promoting 21st century skills.

Keywords: STEM education; teachers; practices; competences

Domains: Mathematics [math]

Nélia Amado, Susana Carreira. Teachers realising the role of STEM practices for the development of 21 st century skills. Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Feb 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. ⟨hal-03745450v2⟩