Why I joined MEd in STEAM Education ?

 

Integrated teaching and learning should be the focus of the present educational system.

The educational system in the ’90s focused on the students to prepare them to work in factories. As per the need of the decade, the students have to focus on their studies to prepare themselves to work in the factories as a worker. Later with the evolution of the education system and technology, the robots took place of the workers so if robots can do that work then why a human being is needed for the same. After this, the whole concept of the education system changed and worked towards developing the students as holistic people so they can have the balance of IQ and EQ both along with soft skills. So having a balance of all these concepts the need for integrated teaching and learning is focused in the present educational system.

Let’s talk about something regarding integrated learning – In the education system previously we had different subjects like English, Social-Science, Math’s, Nepali, etc. so students are taught on a subject basis while talking about integrated learning all the subjects will be integrated into one concept. For E.g. If we are teaching student Letter A then we can integrate some of the above subjects in one exercise – math’s logic of standing and sleeping lines, English- alphabet knowledge, etc.

My understanding of STEAM and STEAM Education is as follows:

The full form of STEAM is

            S-Science

                                    T-Technology

                                    E- Engineering

                                                                    A-Arts

                                                                                     M-Mathematics 

STEAM is an educational approach to learning and teaching. It requires an intentional connection between curriculum learning objectives and implementation.

STEAM Education: -It is an approach to learning that uses science, technology, engineering the arts, and mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking.

The two ideas in the present context as the need of the hour which needs to be addressed as a whole in the education system as this will develop the future generation for solving real-life problems rather than sticking to the textbook knowledge. Taking about the pace of technology advancement the whole scenario will change after 10 years so if we will not develop this then we may be back almost 50 years so we need to join hands with this new approach and give it a practical implementation with proper review and feedback for the future of the nation as a whole.

I will incorporate these ideas in my work through the following things:

1. Sharing 

 I will make a habit of sharing my knowledge in my workplace to have a better understanding of the concept.

2. Applying

I will apply these ideas in my curriculum design to have effective learning. E.g. – For the diploma in fashion design course – I will have the integrated activities for this program so that after completing this program students will come out with real-life designers with the capacity to handle the problems coming in their path.

These are some of the ideas more will come in due course of time while doing my regular classes of the MED in STEAM. I would love the journey from finance to the education sector to bring a little change in the education sector which will bring practical and skilled people in the future in NEPAL.