Benefits of STEAM Education

What Students Develop from STEAM Education

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

The benefits of a STEAM education are reflected on the development of the students as they acquire, apply, and demonstrate the following skills:

• They find solutions to problems, rather than problem solving.
• They are artful in their communication, rather than express STEM-babble.
• They understand that information is pursued, rather than being a fact seeker.
• They become life-long learners, rather than stage students.
• They are neo-knowledgeable, rather than pseudo-fictional.

These are the skills that students who have been instructed in a STEAM education should be able to carry for their life.  They should demonstrate these skills, as they are acquired, by applying them to all problems that they may face in academics and daily life.

 With a solid foundation in a clearly defined STEAM education curriculum, we as educators can plant a seed of learning in each of our students.  This seed will then begin to branch out and grow in each student as they progress through their education.  With a constant evaluation of their learning we can ensure that as students grow they develop a healthy education, and it will allow for corrective actions to be implemented if needed.  The fruits of these students will be good and in time they will create an educational ecosystem that cycles around learning.

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