STEPWISE

Science & Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies & Environments

STEPWISE is a schema – with teaching resources – that teachers may use to develop lessons & activities that may help students to develop expertise, confidence & motivation for independently developing & implementing research-informed & socially-negotiated sociopolitical actions to help overcome risks &/or harms of their concern in relationships among STEM fields, powerful society members (e.g., corporations) and living & non-living environments (STEM-SE).

STEPWISE Pedagogy

Students’ Research-informed & Negotiated Action (‘RiNA‘) Projects

STEPWISE Rationale

Pedagogical Resources

Teachers Talk ��޾��ֲ� STEPWISE

Students Talk ��޾��ֲ� RiNA Projects

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Teaching & Learning Resources

The resources below – many of which you can download from here – were largely developed by me during my teaching & consulting careers and through with practising teachers in several different contexts since 1988 during my scholarly career.

Online Sample Lessons & Student Activities

Each of the four school-based issues of JASTE linked have been edited by school science teachers and feature many students’ reports of their RiNA projects.

Sample Student RiNA Projects

Teachers Talking ��޾��ֲ� Their Implementation of STEPWISE

STEPWISE in Elementary Schools

Since its inception in 2006, STEPWISE has been mainly explored and developed in secondary school science contexts, including with students in after-school clubs. We have worked with a few teachers in elementary schools, however – as described in the video at right/below. Based on such work, we believe that students in elementary schools are quite capable of developing critical views about science & technology and societies more generally and developing and taking personal & social actions to overcome harms of their concern. However, there are few STEPWISE-informed teaching & learning materials available for teachers’ uses. If you are interested in collaborating with us in action research to develop and field-test STEPWISE approaches in elementary schools, you might review the videos below and then write to larry.bencze@utoronto.ca.