Teaching Practice: A Cross-Professional Perspective part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This research article examines professional training in clinical psychology and seminary programs along with teacher preparation, in an effort to describe how professional practice is taught across different disciplines. This article identifies representation, decomposition, and approximation of practice as three cross-disciplinary pedagogies in professional education.

Assessing teacher education and professional development needs for the implementation of integrated approaches to STEM education part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
Research study identifies challenges and supports to implementing integrated STEM education from the perspective of practicing K-12 teachers and administrators. Provides recommendations for redesigning teacher preparation courses.

Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation
Check out the June2022 Conference! »Welcome to the Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation Resource site! This website is designed to provide a curated set of resources for people working in the STEM K-12 ...

Resource Collection part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation
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Core Practices of Teaching: A Primer part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This document describes several core practices of teaching, classroom evidence of that practice, and potential challenges to enacting the practice. The resource is suggested as an accompaniment "for teachers using video to improve their practice as facilitators of classroom talk."

Robotics K-3: Unplugged Coding part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
A short presentation of resources and strategies for teaching robotics to K-3 students.

TeachingWorks High-Leverage Practices part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
A website that identifies 19 "high-leverage practices," fundamental capabilities of teaching that supports students' content and social-emotional learning. These HLPs are not grade- or discipline-specific. This is a good list to spark conversation with colleagues (or yourself) when considering course or program outcomes.

Problematizing teaching and learning mathematics as "given" in STEM education part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This article calls for two shifts in mathematics education: (1) to reframe mathematics, and all of STEM as a sense-making activity rather than a body of content to be learned, or practices to engage in and (2) to simultaneously focus on how students experience the discipline. The TRU Framework (Schoenfeld, 2019) is presented as a tool to assess classroom instruction towards these means.

Helping students make sense of the world - Developing and Using Models part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This book chapter describes the importance of instruction that focuses on the NGSS practice, developing and using models. Includes examples in both elementary and secondary classrooms, tips for getting started, and explicit connections to the other NGSS practices.

Knowledge Base for Teaching and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK): Some Useful Models and Implications for Teachers' Training part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This study looks critically at the various Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) models frequently cited in literature and points out similarities and differences so that the reader can develop more insight into PCK and analyze the models' use and validity.