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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.

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.

Developing Robust Forms of Pre-Service Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge through Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching Analysis part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This study documents and describes efforts to develop robust forms of pre-service teachers' pedagogical content knowledge through a culturally responsive mathematics teaching approach. Pre-service teachers (PSTs) and the authors each analysed PSTs' mathematics lessons and written reflections for children's mathematical thinking, academic language supports, cultural funds of knowledge, and critical math/social justice.

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.

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: A Needed Change in Stance, Terminology, and Practice part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
An article that explores culturally sustaining pedagogy as an alternative to culturally responsive or relevant pedagogy.

Understanding "Core Practices" and "Practice-Based" Teacher Education: Learning From the Past part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
Journal article that describes how current trends in practice-based teacher education vary from historical approaches, including competency-based teacher education.

The NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
With input from people around the world, an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. Their 14 game-changing goals for improving life on the planet, announced in 2008, are outlined here. The committee suggested these Grand Challenges fall into four cross-cutting themes: SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTH, SECURITY, and JOY OF LIVING.

Avid Open Access part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
Open access resources and strategies for teaching STEM and virtual teaching

Preparing University Faculty for Clinically-Oriented, Practice-Based Teacher Education part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
A presentation from the 73rd annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). We describe our synthesis of the clinical practice literature that led us to focus on core practices and practice-based teacher education pedagogies, and we discuss how we operationalized those ideas into professional development and related tools for university-based teams of education faculty.