Share Paper: Online Teacher Professional Development: Leveraging Instructional Design to Support Teachers’ Science Content Knowledge, STEAM Perceptions, and Self-efficacy to Improve NGSS Elementary Science Instruction through Digital Media

1. Joseph Wong, University of California, Irvine, United States
2. Nu Bui, University of California, Irvine, United States
3. Damani Fields, University of California, Irvine, United States
4. Brad Hughes, University of California, Irvine, United States

Abstract: This study examines an online Professional Development (PD) certificate program that integrates the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned Arts to study Science, technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) instruction. Combining arts and sciences, both STEM and STEAM techniques, have shown to significantly increase student achievement, improve language fluency, and foster conceptual change specifically in STEAM subjects. Consequently, this study examines the integration of NGSS aligned STEM content with Arts methods to evaluate in-service teacher training and practitioner development to implement STEAM instruction in the classroom. We considered the human-centered instructional design approach that grounded this online course in the ...