Engaging Eager and Reluctant Learners

Dennis Adams is a former elementary school teacher who has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, and McGill University in Montreal. He did graduate work at Harvard University and has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of more than 25 books and more than a hundred journal articles on various educational topics.Mary Hamm has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. More recently, she has been teaching at San Francisco State University. She has worked on both math and science standards and has published more than a dozen books and eighty journal articles on these subjects.

To engage a wide range of learners, from reluctant to eager, can be a daunting task, especially in subjects that some students may find difficult and challenging. Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm take a research-based approach at engaging students of all learning types to the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. Focusing on teamwork in the classroom, Adams and Hamm have created a guide for a more active and participatory classroom, with sample math activities, online resources, engineering activity ideas and more to help create this more active, team-building classroom. Written in a teacher friendly style, ripe with analogies and examples, this book will show teachers how to emphasize teamwork so students of all learning types will become curious and find answers together in our ever-evolving world.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Basic STEM Concepts: Providing Different Avenues to UnderstandingChapter 2: STEM InstructionChapter 3: Science and Mathematics: The Power of Inquiry and Problem SolvingChapter 4: Engineering and Technology: Imaginatively Integrating STEM SubjectsIn the ClassroomChapter 5: STEM: Past, Present, and FUTUREChapter 6: Evaluating STEM Learning: Informative Assessment, Lesson Plans and Activities