Early STEM PD Workshop

In this 7-hour early STEM Workshop, early childhood practitioners will discuss lessons learned through implementing tools and techniques from the past workshop, dive deeper into hands-on inquiry-based learning and the engineering design process, and work to build a community of practice with fellow attendees.

Participants will:

• Further their understanding of inquiry-based learning and how it can meet young children’s cognitive and social emotional needs
• Share examples of inquiry-driven design thinking in their learning environment
• Practice the concept of “hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on”
• Create their own early STEM curriculum that equips students to design, conduct, and analyze experiments to solve challenges from popular early childhood books
• Explore the use of high-level questioning to extend and scaffold students’ learning during all learning and routine care activities throughout the preschool day
• Learn to implement a screen-free preschool coding curriculum
• Network with local early childhood practitioners to support a strong early STEM learning program throughout IdahoLearn to implement a screen-free preschool coding curriculum
• Network with local early childhood practitioners to support a strong early STEM learning program throughout Idaho

Eligibility

Formal and informal educators who attended one of the 2018, 2019, or 2020 Early STEM Professional Development workshops. Up to 2 educators from one site may apply through one application if both educators attended a previous workshop.