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Teaching Engineering-Focused STEM Curriculum: PCK Needed for Teachers

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The core value of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is to provide the balanced opportunities of hands-on and minds-on learning. Engineering design is recognized as a core approach for implementing engineering-focused STEM curricula. This raises a need for science and technology teachers to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula. This chapter consists of four sections. First, to form the theoretical foundation of engineering-focused STEM curricula, literature related to STEM education is reviewed. Second, design modules for engineering-focused STEM curriculum are discussed. Third, the PCK needed for science and technology teachers to teach engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed. Fourth, a summary of issues and misconceptions of teaching engineering-focused STEM curricula are discussed, which provides useful guidelines on how to teach the curriculum.

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    Kuang-Chao Yu

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Fan, SC., Yu, KC. (2019). Teaching Engineering-Focused STEM Curriculum: PCK Needed for Teachers. In: Hsu, YS., Yeh, YF. (eds) Asia-Pacific STEM Teaching Practices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0768-7_7

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