PL VIDEOS

Introductory professional learning videos

Welcome to the ELSA: STEM in Schools introductory professional learning module. The video resources below are for Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers in our Full ELSA Program and Non-RCT groups. These videos will introduce you to the key pedagogical frameworks that we use in the pilot program. They will also give you some examples of these frameworks in action, and explain how to implement them in your classroom. Please watch the following 8 short videos before commecning the ELSA: STEM in Schools program with your students. Introductory PL videos:
  1. STEM Practices – Overview
  2. STEM Practices – Ideas
  3. STEM Practices – Methods
  4. STEM Practices – Values
  5. Experience, Represent, Apply (ERA) – Overview
  6. Experience, Represent, Apply (ERA) – Examples
  7. Spatial Reasoning
  8. Logical Reasoning

1. STEM Practices – Overview

Presented Tracy Logan

STEM – The Acronym and our understanding of STEM.

STEM describes four discipline areas – which can provide children a way to think about their world.

Our view of STEM differs from an emphasis on each discipline to an emphasis on practices.

2. STEM Practices – Ideas

Presented Tracy Logan

In the previous video, we outlined our STEM Practices approach. In this video we focus on core ideas that underpin STEM work.

The ideas form the basis of the ‘what’ of the STEM thinking.

3. STEM Practices – Methods

Presented Tracy Logan

In the previous video, we outlined our STEM Practices approach and discussed STEM ideas.

Here we focus on core methods that underpin STEM.

The STEM Practices methods provide the ‘how’ of STEM thinking.

4. STEM Practices – Values

Presented Tracy Logan

In our previous videos, we outlined our STEM Practices approach and discussed STEM ideas and methods.

In this presentation we focus on core values that underpin STEM work.

In essence, values are the ‘ways’ of STEM thinking.

5. Experience, Represent, Apply (ERA) – Overview

Presented by Kevin Larkin

In this presentation, we outline our Experience, Represent, Applry (ERA) framework.

This is our pedagogical approach to engaging young children in STEM.

6.Experience, Represent, Apply (ERA) – Examples

Presented by Kevin Larkin In this video, we provide two examples of ERA in practice:
  1. How a concept (i.e.. sorting) can be introduced using the model.
  2. How one type of resource (i.e. picture books) can be used across different phases of the model.

7. Spatial Reasoning

Presented by Tracy Logan

In this presentation we discuss spatial reasoning.

Spatial reasoning is one of the two main forms of reasoning that children use to understand the world.

Because our world is inherently spatial, it is important that children develop ways of understanding it that are also spatial in nature.

8. Logical Reasoning

Presented by Tracy Logan

In this presentation we discuss logical reasoning.

Logical reasoning is a way for children to understand their world and includes the ability to communicate their understanding to their friends and families.