Review by Choice Review
Across the US, the landscape of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is changing, so STEM Road Map is a timely resource. A practical guide for educators, the collection brings together perspectives of leading researchers, creating a coherent narrative that offers an integrated approach to STEM education. In the first of the volume's three sections, "Conceptualizing STEM," contributors delve into the challenging notion of considering STEM as an integrated way of knowing and learning. Part 2, "STEM Curriculum Maps," examines STEM as developed across grade levels. This section brings together Common Core State Standards initiatives in mathematics and language arts, the performance expectations of the Next Generations Science Standards (NGSS), and the Framework for 21st Century Learning to create a curriculum compendium. In the final section of the book, "Building Capacity for STEM," contributors look at assessment, sociocultural perspectives, advocacy, and professional learning through the lens of STEM. Practitioners will particularly benefit from the concise curriculum maps, which support day-to-day work, but the three sections taken together give this book real potential to shape the conversation in STEM teaching and learning at a national level. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --David M. Moss, University of Connecticut
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Review by Choice Review
