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The Deakin STEME PL Hub is underway and the first of many PL opportunities is happening ASAP. Watch this site for more details…. Assessing Science Inquiry Skills is the first event and is occurs on Thursday 12th December at the Burwood campus. Check out the Professional Learning tab on this site for details about more

The team from .this (a Deakin media unit) approached Peta who enlisted John and Russell to design a quiz.  The purpose of the quiz was that if you took it and were successful, then your science knowledge and (some) skills might be at about year 10 level…. it was a big ask for a small

STAVCON was held at La Trobe Uni on Friday 29th  November 2019 and Russell and Peta launched the STEME PL Hub to a full room of interested science teachers. With standing room only we showcased the STEME Education Research Group research program depth and breadth and outlined how we research in partnership with schools.  The

Dr Dino Spagnoli (University of Western Australia) is visiting the School of Life & Environmental Sciences to present a Science Education seminar this upcoming Friday 29th November. Seminar title: Preparation, Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: Probing the Affective Domain of Learning within the Chemistry Undergraduate Laboratory.

Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th November saw some members of the STEME Education Research Group hold a research retreat at the Riversdale Golf Club. Highlights included good conversations, focussed meetings, publication completions and convivial collegiality. The venue was beautiful with sunny weather and loads of green lawn and big trees.

Thursday 7th and Friday 8th November saw many of the Deakin STEME Education Research group attend and present at the CAR Symposium. We hosted two excellent keynote speakers: Kathy Nolan form the University of Regina, Canada and Margaret Bearman from CRADLE, Deakin University. There were two full days of stimulating methodologically focussed short presentations followed

Early October 2019 saw Deakin University and the School of Education honour our most recent PhD graduates.  The STEME Research group congratulate Dr. Kathryn Riley who made the trip home to Australia to walk the stage of Costa Hall. Kathryns PhD was a posthumanist exploration of environmental education.  Her title is (Re)Storying Human/Nonhuman Relationships:  Posthumanist

STEM Integration in the Classroom: Moving from Tinkering to Integration Tuesday 10th December, 4 – 6.00pm Venue: Room 242, Learning & Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way Registration: Via booking form Hosted by Professor Amanda Berry. Abstract: This presentation will provide an opportunity for participants to think about integrated STEM education models. Participants will engage

How can we get more girls interested in STEM-related subjects and careers? An article outlining from challenges and solutions.

An argument for guided inquiry as a powerful pedagogy for building foundational concepts in science and mathematics, and STEM competences that prepare students for a productive future.

Associate Professor Linda Hobbs features in news about teaching out-of-field

The Science Education team at Deakin University has been commissioned by DET to undertake an evaluation of the Victorian Tech Schools initiative.

Several of the Burwood Science academics are enjoying wrapping up the Green Impact initiative in which Deakin has been participating. Team Viridescent has done very well – achieving gold and currently leading the league table for all of Deakin teams. If you are interested in seeing what we have been busy doing – please see

During Science Week (August, 2019) a collaborative of Deakin Science Academics hosted a Family Science Games Night on all three Deakin Campuses – Burwood, Waurn Ponds, and Warrnambool. We had over a hundred parents and children attend and play games with 10 volunteer pre-service teachers. We crafted a short video to give an overview of

If current events interest you, then you are probably aware of the many aspects of human-induced climate change. However do you really know what it is or the effect it’s having on our planet? Can you explain what is going on with the weather and why? Do you feel empowered to take action that will

Secondary Chemistry teachers from across Victoria attended a Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education (STICE) symposium on Friday, September 13th.

Several of the Science Education team are presenting at the ESERA Conference, Bologna, Italy at the end of August, 2019. https://www.esera2019.org ESERA presentations: Novice Teachers learning to teach out-of-Field (Linda Hobbs) Secondary Teachers learning to teach STEM: Outcomes of a professional learning program – poster (Linda Hobbs & John Cripps Clark) Teacher perceptions of their

Six members of the Burwood science education group and two amazing student interns have formed Team Viridescent as part of the Green Impact Program offered by Deakin Sustainability. We are challenging ourselves to achieve GOLD with the following innovations: Promoting the University’s Sustainability website pages and the Organisational Sustainability at Deakin to colleagues and students:

Tuesday 23 July saw the launch of the exciting 100 Jobs of the Future project through the website www.100jobsofthefuture.com.  This project involved collaboration between academics at Deakin and Griffith University working in partnership with Ford Australia. Deakin academics in the project included Russell Tytler, Peta White, Dineli Mather and Trevor McCandless. The project involved the

Professor MaryKay Orgill (University of Nevada) is visiting the School of Life & Environmental Sciences this Friday (19th July), at Waurn Ponds campus, to present a seminar.

Seminar title: Supporting the Science Learning of All Students: Science Identity and Equitable Assessment in Chemistry

Early July 2019, several of the Deakin Science education team are attending and presenting at the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) conference in Queenstown, New Zealand. These are the program highlights… Presentations Exploring the Possibilities of STEM Integration in Secondary School Curriculum in Taiwan and Australia by Su-Chi Fang, Lihua Xu Enriching Maths and

We are calling for teacher educators and classroom teachers (from all classroom contexts) to respond to the call for contributions towards a research book on interdisciplinary work in drama and science in education.

On a cold wintery night in June, 2019, our colleague, Professor David Clarke, was honoured at Melbourne University.

You can download poster paintings of women in STEM from Women You Should Know. They were commissioned by the Nevertheless podcast. “The women featured serve as amazing role models in their fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM as it’s often referred to).“

Associate Professor Linda Hobbs, lead author of the report Girls’ Future – Our Future, chats with Jo Earp from Teacher Magazine about the study which looked at the decline in the participation rates of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects and girls’ engagement in STEM at school. You can listen to the podcast

Senior Lecturer has written a fascinating article on Teaching Out of Field, on the 13th of April, for The Conversation. Out-of-field teaching is a reality that many schools must manage. Increasing the supply of teachers to meet demand, while critical to ensuring we have the right sort of teachers in the schools in most need,