Teachers of STEM should seek out and participate in quality professional development opportunities to enhance their knowledge of STEM and its application in meeting curricular requirements, and to gain exposure to practicing STEM professionals.
Teachers of STEM should locate and use quality resources from STEM organizations to enhance and strengthen their curricula.
School administrators and principals should support teachers in their efforts to integrate STEM within science and mathematics curricula.
Collaborations among stakeholders in education, government, business, the community, and the media should be encouraged to coordinate the development and availability of STEM educational resources.
STEM as an interdisciplinary discipline requires that pedagogical approaches must be altered from traditional approaches to support student learning.
STEM Educators must implement instructional strategies that integrate the teaching of STEM in a way that challenges students to innovate and invent.
STEM Educators must use problem-based and project-based learning with a set of specific learning outcomes to support student learning.
STEM Educators must create meaningful learning opportunities provided context learning is delivered using applied and collaborative learning.
STEM Educators must require students to demonstrate their understanding of these disciplines in an environment that models real world contexts for learning and work.
STEM Educators must provide students with interdisciplinary, multicultural, and multi-perspective viewpoints to demonstrate how STEM transcends national boundaries providing students a global perspective that links students with a broader STEM community and workforce.
High quality STEM education programs provide teachers with opportunities to collaborate with one another in unified efforts aimed at integrating the four subjects into one cohesive means of teaching and learning. It is when this objective is achieved that students gain access to meaningful curricular opportunities promoting critical thinking skills that can be applied to their academic as well as everyday lives.