Learning Areas
General Description
This course will help you understand the essential foundations of STEM teaching and learning and provide opportunities to help build knowledge, skills and confidence to take on STEM in your early learning environment. You’ll learn:
- What STEM is and how to use STEM to develop 21st Century learning skills in Early Learning education.
- Where STEM fits within the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).
- How to identify examples of STEM in everyday play.
- How to use STEM to develop curiosity and investigation.
- Strategies for setting up STEM learning activities, including:
Audience
Early Learning Teachers
Available Delivery Formats
Format Description
24/7 lifetime course access
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- If you have a TTA subscription or membership please ignore the pricing when enrolling. Rest assured if your school has a subscription you will not be charged and for Memberships, your invoice will be adjusted accordingly to reflect your discount.
- If you have no subscription or membership but you are interested in placing a bulk discounted order for a team of teachers see the ONLINE TEAM tab above.
- For more details on our Unlimited Online Subscription packages Click here .
- Money-Back Guarantee – If you complete less than 25% of an online course and aren’t impressed, simply visit tta.edu/go/refund to let us know what happened, and we will cancel your enrolment and provide a full refund.
Teaching Standards
2.1.2 Proficient Level – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.5.2 Proficient Level – Literacy and numeracy strategies
3.3.2 Proficient Level – Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 Proficient Level – Select and use resources
Are you in NSW? If so, this is relevant for you
Completing this course will contribute 2 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered PD addressing 2.1.2, 2.5.2, 3.3.2 & 3.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
This course contributes to 2.0 professional development hours.
Occurrences
Sessions
Introduction
No duration specified
Get started with your online professional development
STEM from an early age
No duration specified
Identify the importance of STEM in early years education.
Building confidence in STEM
No duration specified
Explore the essential elements of STEM Teaching.
Your Teaching
No duration specified
Download teaching resources.
Reflection
No duration specified
Reflect on your course learning and next steps
User Rating
4.0Latest Reviews
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Introduction to Early Learning STEM - Cool Australia
02/09/2019
Easy o understand, great ideas to introduce into my classroom.
About the team
Cool Australia
Creator
Cool Australia is an award winning not-for-profit dedicated to supporting educators with tools to foster ‘learning for life’. We help integrate topics around sustainability, ethics, economics and wellbeing across the curriculum. This enables teachers of all age groups and disciplines to engage young Aussies in real-life learning whilst achieving Australian Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework outcomes. Our accredited professional development is designed to build your confidence, understanding and expertise. You will learn through a mixture of practical and thinking activities as well as hearing the stories of others. Plus you will access a range of teaching tools that can you can use straight away in your teaching.