ORGANIZATION OF STEAM LESSONS IN THE INNOVATIVE CLASSROOM

Abstract

The article outlines the problem of future teachers preparation for implementation of STEAM education with the help of innovative learning models and new approaches to organization of educational process. The authors carried out the analysis of innovative classroom utilization peculiarities for organization of STEAM training of future teachers on the basis of innovative pedagogical technologies utilization and innovative forms of students’ learning activities organization that are based on the rotation model. In particular, objects of STEAM learning ecosystem were defined as well as the place and the role of learning environments there exemplified by innovative classroom (ICR). The article represents the results of the research on educational trends, innovative pedagogical technologies and methods of innovative classroom organization which will satisfy the needs of the learning process participants. These results are based on the survey where 198 students of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University took part. Characteristics of innovative classroom, approaches to organization of ICR depending on the number of rotation stations, rotation models, their advantages and disadvantages are described. There is a description of innovative classroom in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University which is designed as an educational centre for preparation of future primary school teachers, training teachers in the sphere of innovative technologies, in particular, to implement tasks of STEAM education. The practical part of the research is in description of STEAM lesson organization in the innovative classroom using the example of the training carried out using innovative classroom equipment, mentioned innovative technologies and models. The participants of the training had to perform a learning project using inquiry-based method where each stage of the project had to be fulfilled on a definite rotation station of the innovative classroom. The research leading to these results received, within the framework of the Modernization of Pedagogical Higher Education by Innovative Teaching Instruments. MoPED – KA2 CBHE – 586098-EPP-1-2017-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.