Improving STEM Education Across European Schools

My name is Nadia Grozavescu and I am a teacher at Gheorghe Magheru Secondary School in Caracal, Romania. I would like to present you the following project, entitled “Improving STEM Education Across European Schools” (Erasmus+ KA201). The project took place in the school I teach between 2020 and 2022.

The overall goal of the project was developing a methodology for teachers to deliver innovative teaching styles to make the STEM evaluation more efficient and its implementation more attractive for students.

Over the course of the project we obtained the following results:

• 10 STEM pedagogical scenarios of which two were created by the teachers in our school. These were also translated in Romanian and listed on the project website (https://improving-stem-education.eu/teaching-materials/). I have personally contributed to the one about the active engagement in respecting the habitat.
• 25 online courses, grouped on nine STEM themes, of which five were created by our school’s coordinator. Again, all courses were translated and can be found on the project’s webpage (https://e-learning.improving-stem-education.eu/)
• 30 students' mentoring sessions, of which six were hosted by Romanian mentors who answered our call. The sessions were recorded and can be found here https://improving-stem-education.eu/mentoring-scheme/
• Three learning and teaching training mobilities which ten of our school’s teachers benefited of. These took place in Greece (Nov 2021), Belgium (Apr 2022) and Ireland (Jun 2022) and had the following main themes: Class Management, Students Motivation, Robotics and Programming, 3D printing and Laser cutting. I was one of the teachers who took part in the workshop in Belgium

The project proved to be complex and challenging, even more given the fact that we were the only institution dealing with younger students. Over the project our school partnered with a university, a Science House Centre, a centre for teachers’ professional development, an IT company, and an NGO dedicated to improving teaching.