Date:      Tuesday 25 April 2023
Time:      7 - 8 pm
Venue:   Online via Zoom 

To flourish in today’s world, young people need to develop the capacity to collaborate and innovate. They need to become critical thinkers and also develop the perseverance to explore and devise solutions to real-world issues and problems.

Rather than viewing STEM or STEAM as an add-on to a jam-packed timetable, STEAM teaching and learning approaches offer a way to enrich learning in existing subjects and support learners to develop their knowledge, skills and dispositions in a meaningful way.

The good news: You are probably already using STEAM approaches in your classroom and may not even realise!

Whether you are an accomplished STEAM practitioner, or just beginning your STEAM journey, this webinar series aims to support you to move ‘full STEAM ahead’, by offering practical ideas to meaningfully infuse STEAM approaches across the curriculum. During the sessions, we will reflect on the benefits of STEAM approaches through exploring tasks which aim to maximise pupil learning with minimal equipment.

Bio of Presenter: Mairéad Holden

Mairéad is a teacher at St. Teresa’s Primary School in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin and former curriculum advisor with PDST Primary STEM. Currently, she is a Teacher Fellow in the School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies in DCU Institute of Education. She holds a Master of Teaching (1st Class Hons.) from DCU, where her thesis focused on STEM and educational disadvantage. Having been awarded a post-graduate certificate in 21st Century Teaching & Learning (Distinction) from Trinity College, Dublin in 2019, she is currently engaged in Ph.D. research with the University of Lincoln, focused on the use of online Lesson Study as a vehicle for teacher collaborative learning in STEM. She has presented and published research internationally in the area of STEM Education and is passionate about supporting educators to promote and enable meaningful access to STEM for all learners.