Learning Design of STEM Education Through Workshop Training for Thai Teachers

Abstract

Learning in the 21st century is a learning that focuses on developing higher-order thinking skills and integrating sciences into a daily life. Therefore, teachers have an essential role in designing learning activities in order to encourage learners to improve problem-solving, creativities and collaborative skills. STEM education is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These disciplines were integrated into a daily life through an engineering design process consists of 6 steps as follows: (1) Problem Identification, (2) Related Information Search, (3) Solution Design, (4) Planning and Development, (5) Testing, Evaluation and Design Improvement, and (6) Presentation. This paper is a presents teachers’ learning activities design through workshops including lecturing, Bionic hand, Floating Restaurant and hand-on activities which are developed based on STEM education to promote as a professional teacher and to respond the learning in the 21st century.