Learning, Classrooms, and Future Concerns.
This past week, future educators, discussed learning within STEM environments and the challenges that come with this style of learning. In groups, students discussed their understanding of learning, and how did this change after reading the 'Learning' chapter in Stem Education By Design by Davis, Francis, and Friesen (2019). This chapter begins by shedding light on the challenges associated with STEM education, primarily a strongly budget conscious administration, leading to large class size in order to reduce cost. These large classrooms are typically taught in a direct instruction fashion. Students take the role of a listener, while the teacher provides a delivery teaching style, positioned in the front of the room (Davis, Francis, & Friesen, 2019). This model of teaching is common in university lectures, a direct teaching approach, where the professor assumes an all-knowing role, in a highly structured format, with little student involvement because it is a te...