More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My school is in the process of transforming into a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) school and I am taking the initiative as an educator to ensure my students have readily available technology to use within the classroom.
I am integrating STEM into lessons via a Model-Eliciting Activity, or MEA, approach. MEAs are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that reveal students’ thinking about the embedded concepts. MEAs resemble engineering problems because students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve open-ended, realistic problems, while considering constraints and trade-offs and clearly documenting their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. Technology is needed to aid in the process of these MEA’s (problem-based learning projects) such as Acer tablets and a printer. Often times, we are unable to complete our projects in totality due to lack of operable technology.
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My school is in the process of transforming into a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) school and I am taking the initiative as an educator to ensure my students have readily available technology to use within the classroom.
I am integrating STEM into lessons via a Model-Eliciting Activity, or MEA, approach. MEAs are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that reveal students’ thinking about the embedded concepts. MEAs resemble engineering problems because students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve open-ended, realistic problems, while considering constraints and trade-offs and clearly documenting their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. Technology is needed to aid in the process of these MEA’s (problem-based learning projects) such as Acer tablets and a printer. Often times, we are unable to complete our projects in totality due to lack of operable technology.