Outreach

STEPWISE Outreach
As part of our efforts to popularize STEPWISE-informed teaching and learning approaches, we offer seminars and workshops to share our ideas, resources, different publications and opportunities to become part of our action research collective that involves development and field-testing of new approaches.

STEPWISE Professional Development Work

Introduction

If you are interested in learning more about and/or implementing STEPWISE, you can invite me and/or team members to conduct seminars and workshops to help with that. Since we have been developing STEPWISE since 2006, we have generated many teaching and learning resources (many of which are discussed on this website) that we are happy to share. You can choose among topics linked to the graphic below or request we discuss related ones.

Sample Presentations & Team Members

To invite us to conduct seminars and/or workshops about topics like those above, write to: larry.bencze@utoronto.ca.

STEPWISE Collaborative Action Research

Our Action Research

The STEPWISE project has been working since 2006 to promote – through science & technology education – development of critical and activist citizens. Working with me over the years have been teams (like this one) of graduate students, colleagues and teachers to conduct action research – involving cycles of reflecting on existing practices; brainstorming new practices; field-testing new practices; data collection from field-tests; and, reflections on new practices. As elaborated here, we often study effects of changes in possible ’cause’ variables (e.g., teaching about the Mendelian Paradox) on changes in certain ‘result’ variables (e.g., students’ views about importance of data vs. theories in inquiries). Teachers & others working with us should gain new & better teaching materials and, if they wish, contribute to publications for teachers, academics and others. A teacher here describes his work efforts to continually improve his teaching (in this case, of actor-network theory). If you’re interested, you can write to me about different aspects of our project at: larry.bencze@utoronto.ca.