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 About STEPWISE

Students Talk About 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 About 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.