STEM or STEAM? You Decide!

A conversation with Dr Adrian Bertolini to SPARK your thinking.

I was excited to have Dr Adrian Bertolini on Courageous Dialogues. Before, Adrian was well known for It Takes a Spark! he was already doing some fabulous work within education with the ruMAD? program.

In my second year of teaching, over 15 years ago, I joined the ruMAD? program. It was in its initial stages and I was looking for ways to engage with the curriculum both for the students and myself quite frankly. This was where I first came across Adrian’s thinking and it has influenced the educator I am today.

Through ruMAD? my foundational thinking and understanding of how we should be designing curriculum was sparked. Relevant, contextual and focused on making a difference where possible, but most of all fun and challenging for all involved.

Today Adrian is well known in the STEM field for supporting education systems. I had the opportunity to have a conversation with him and we spoke of being courageous, the acronym of STEM, explicit teaching, as well as STEM designs across primary and secondary education.

(A short podcast version will be up on the website in the coming days.)