英文摘要 |
Experience on cross-disciplinary science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) curriculums design could help primary pre-service teachers to develop their STEAM curriculums perception and STEAM teaching abilities awareness. In this case study, 42 pre-service teachers from a teacher education university south of Taiwan were included as research participants. The STEAM curriculum theme of ''load-bearing bridge'' was chosen by researchers to guide pre-service teachers watching ''bridge building'' videos, designing and constructing ''load-bearing bridge'' models, and having load competitions of load-bearing bridge model. The data collected included load-bearing bridge models, sharing and feedback recording corpus from peers, observation record sheets, and reflection & discussion lists for data coding, classification, and interpretation. The results indicated that (1) Most of the pre-service teachers actively participated in the practical activities of STEAM curriculums. Most of them considered the factor of ''maximum load-bearing capacity'' when constructing a load-bearing bridge model, Only a few group members considered both of the factors ''maximum load-bearing capacity'' and ''economic benefits''. (2) After the implementation of STEAM curriculums, each group of pre-service teachers developed the relevant concepts and skills in the fields of science, engineering, mathematics and arts. They also awarded that teachers should have six STEAM teaching abilities about topics, teaching model, teaching strategies, media use and representation for teaching, classroom discourse and interaction, and assessment. |