Jason McKenna is a passionate advocate for robotics and STEM education and the author of What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom. He has spent years helping educators understand how to leverage STEM to foster critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. 

Join the host of The STEM Class Podcast, Anthony Arno, as he talks with Jason about the following topics in STEM education.

• Importance of curiosity in STEM
• Adopting a universal STEM curriculum
• Importance of teaching STEM to our youngest students
• Teaching STEM with current events
• Are we prepping our students too soon about STEM careers?
• Glorious Failure
• Role of Failure (The First Penguin Award)
• Gallery walks with students and “stealing” good ideas
• What does it take to be a great STEM teacher?
• Knowledge versus Skill in the classroom
• Guided discovery learning in STEM
• Assessment in the STEM classroom
• Engineering Notebooks
• What can a teacher do tomorrow to promote a STEM mindset
• VEX Robotics 

WEBSITE: Jason McKenna

WEBSITE: VEX Robotics