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Play-based STEM allows pupils to explore mathematical and science strands, language and skills.
Playful teaching involves planning for both teacher-led and child-led play.
Teacher interactions play a key role in assessing play-based maths.
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Why STEM?“Stimulating curiosity and fostering a sense of wonder are essential elements of educating our students from the earliest years. Science and mathematics provide answers to the fundamental questions of nature and enable us to understandthe world around us. The STEM disciplines enable us to understand, measure, design andadvance our physical world (Report on STEM Education, 2016).”
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• Play Pedagogy• Teacher – led Vs. Child – led play• Language Play
– Picture Books
• Games with Rules Play– Strands
• Child – led Play Overview– Interactions– Skills– Assessment
a word about six times to adequately learn a new word
in context. (Jenkins, Stein, Wysocki, 1984)
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STEM Content? Appropriate Level?
Opportunities to introduce and
reinforce mathematical and
science vocabulary?
Opportunities to think and reason
mathematically and scientifically?
Build appreciation of both STEM and
literature?
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Night, Light, Sleep Tight
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STEMMaths Skills
•Applying and problem-solving
•Communicating and expressing
•Integrating and connecting
•Reasoning
•Implementing•Understanding and recalling
Science SkillsWorking Scientifically:QuestioningObservingPredictingInvestigating and experimentingEstimating and measuringAnalysing - Sorting and classifyingRecording and communicatingDesigning and making:ExploringPlanningMakingCommunicating
School-Self EvaluationTeaching & Learning Framework; 6 Step SSE Process; gathering, collating & analysing relevant data; implementing the SIP for
literacy, numeracy and any other area of teaching & learning.
Health and Wellbeing➢SPHE including Child Protection and Stay
Safe➢Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE)➢Active Learning Methodologies ➢Anti Bullying-Procedures and Policy,
Awareness Raising, Prevention and Intervention Strategies
➢ PE➢ Wellbeing for teachers
PDST Websites
➢www.pdst.ie➢pdsttechnologyineducation.ie➢scoilnet.ie (portal for resources)➢teachercpd.ie (on-line courses)➢ollscoil.net (ITE students awards)
Overview of PDST Primary Supports for Leading Learning in the 21st Century
www.pdst.ie/schoolsupport
Models of support:in-school support (in-class modeling, meeting principal/groups of teachers, Croke Park hrs), seminars, workshops, clusters
Literacy SSE & strategies for improving
oral language, writing, reading and the use of broadcast /digital
media.
NumeracySSE & strategies for improving
numeracy. Supporting the development of Mathematical
thinking.
GaeilgeTacaíocht chun Curaclam na Gaeilge a
chur i bhfeidhm i Scoileanna T1&T2, Féinmheastóireacht Scoile, chomh maith le tacaíocht lán Ghaeilge a sholáthar do
Ghaelscoileanna agus scoileanna sa Ghaeltacht.
Integrating ICT - Primary➢Active Learning Methodologies- Key methodologies of the primary curriculum through the effective use of ICT.➢Literacy & Numeracy – Creating, developing and using ICT to create teaching resources in all areas of primary literacy and numeracy.➢SSE – Online tools for gathering, collating & analysing relevant data.➢eAssessment & ePortfolios – Assessment of / for learning with ICT.➢ePlanning & Collaboration – Google Apps for Education.➢Tablet Technology Integration – Pedagogy, Curriculum & SEN ➢Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) – Google Classroom, Edmodo
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