Supporting Youth Development Through STEM
Staff will use positive youth development practices to engage youth in meaningful STEM learning experiences. Positive youth development is essential to developing well-rounded youth who are engaged with their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups, and families. Out-of-school time STEM education is well-positioned to equip youth with the opportunities, relationships, and the foundation they need to build and grow their leadership skills.
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Managing Groups During STEM
Staff and and volunteers will manage behavior of youth during STEM activities.
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Encouraging Collaborative STEM Work
Staff and volunteers will be able to effectively facilitate collaborative STEM learning experiences.
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Facilitating Inclusive Learning Experiences
Staff and volunteers will design and continually attend to the social and emotional safety of youth and respond to the inequities when they occur.
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Developing a STEM Identity
Staff and volunteers will be support youth in viewing themselves as someone who learns about, uses, and sometimes contributes to STEM.
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Making Connections to STEM Careers
Staff and volunteers will be able to connect their program to the work of STEM professionals.
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Connecting to Prior Knowledge & Experiences
Staff and volunteers will be able to effectively connect STEM activities to the knowledge and experiences of youth in their program.
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Giving Youth Control
Staff and volunteers will provide opportunities for youth to direct and manage their own learning.
Resources
Resources
Skill: Developing a STEM Identity
Let There Be Light Module
Participants will watch the “Let there be Light!” learning module to learn why STEM identities matter.
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Tinkering
Participants will learn how tinkering is important to learning in computer science and prepare to engage youth in directing their learning.
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Project-Based Learning: An Overview
Participants will engage with the components of projects-based learning to learn ways to support giving youth control.
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Giving Youth Control with Project-Based Learning
Participants will engage with the components of project-based learning to learn ways to support giving youth control.
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Giving Youth Control with Group Projects
Participants will develop a list of strategies they would like to implement in order to give youth control of their learning.
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Giving Youth a Role
Participants will do the Make Your Own Rules activity to learn how to support giving youth more control over their learning.
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Examples in Action
Participants will watch the Giving Youth Control in Investigations Video-Based Learning Module to learn how to give youth more control in their STEM learning experiences.
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Encouraging Youth Choice
Participants will work through the Youth Voice and Choice Video-Based Learning Module and create an action plan to give youth more control of their STEM experiences.
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Effective Strategies for Giving Youth Control
Participants will engage in an Eco-Bots challenge to learn ways to support youths’ interest in activity design.
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