Teacher Training

Discover STEAM offers the following professional development opportunities:  

(1) Training on science equipment that can subsequently be borrowed through Discover STEAM's equipment loaning program. Such equipment use can be for the purposes of classroom demonstrations, science fair projects or other independent student research.​

(2) Professional development workshops focused on specific STEAM topics, with Next Generation Science Standards and deep learning strategies for student exploration into those subjects.
 
(3) Our most comprehensive training opportunity is our Sustainable STEM Program, which has three components: 

(1) Discover STEAM designs hands-on STEAM learning curriculum for your institution.
 
(2) Discover STEAM teachers pilot this novel curriculum directly to one or more classes at your institute. During this time our staff also provide professional development training for your teachers in this same curriculum. Your teachers will get to see our deep learning techniques modeled in the classroom and in professional development sessions teachers will exercise strategies for implementing and evolving the curriculum independently of Discover STEAM in subsequent years. 
 
(3) Your institute can purchase the necessary equipment from Discover STEAM to repeat the curriculum in subsequent years (eg. classroom sets of robots, if it applies to that curriculum).  Additionally, teachers who underwent the professional development training for that curriculum, are eligible to use our equipment loaning program.