Teacher Learning and Quality STEM: Challenges and Initiatives:

Abstract

STEM Education intends to have Integrated Learning in the disciplines of Science, Technology, Mathematics and Mathematics to produce critical, innovative and creative students who contribute to the country's development. STEM education has a role not only as a channel to process and produce local skilled workers, even as a leader in the country's development economy. However, STEM education scenarios in Malaysia are dealing with various issues such as the lack of STEM teaching materials, the reduction in the number of students who continue study in STEM-related fields in the middle and tertiary rankings and low achievements in international level markers studies such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA ) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). These issues are related to one of the main challenges, namely STEM learning / teacher teaching quality that is not interesting and consistent and teacher quality in the STEM field. Increasing the quality of STEM learning, the quality of teacher teaching and the quality of teachers needs to be done as one of the proactive steps to strengthen STEM Education. If this effort is not carried out, the dictatorship of the country becomes incompetent in the global ranking and lags behind. This concept paper naturally discusses the issues and challenges of teacher factors in the education of STEM education and so on several reserves and initiatives to overcome the STEM learning challenges / teacher teaching quality that is not interesting and consistent and teacher quality is raised.