“Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is a relatively new mode of thinking about how best to educate high school students for the workforce and for post-secondary education.
STEM education is not simply a new name for the traditional approach to teaching science and mathematics. Nor is it just the grafting of “technology” and “engineering” layers onto standard science and math curricula. Instead, STEM is an approach to teaching that is larger than its constituent parts; it is, as Janice Morrison of the Teaching Institute for Essential Science stated, a “meta-discipline.”