4th Annual STEM Education Conference

Innovation Session: Creating STEM Learning Environments through Online Professional Development in Response to the COVID Pandemic
 Elisabeth M Krimbill, Amber Middlebrook, Mahek Shaikh, Mary Ruggles, & Dr. Bob Elde 
Education is the key to success and too many low income, rural students have not experienced the spark that excites and engages them in STEM learning. To these needs, one Texas non-profit STEM learning center has created an innovative and accessible approach to STEM engagement through professional development training.

Good Disruption Through Program Evaluation Attuned to the Language and Cultural Values of Latinx Communities
Michelle B. Burd, PhD 
This workshop examines the knowledge, values, and skills necessary to seek truth and reveal useful insights for educational programs that aim to help Latinx communities, in particular. Attendees will explore issues that surround language, cultural values, and social justice unique to Latinx communities as well as the role of evaluation.

Self-efficacy development with a SMILE: Supporting female teachers implementing iSTEM education.
 Melinda Golinski 
This ethnographic study contributes to the understanding of the processes involved in the self-efficacy development of female elementary school teachers in integrated STEM (iSTEM) education. The Teacher Self-Efficacy Development (TSED) Model supports teachers to develop confidence in using iSTEM pedagogical practices utilizing Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy development.