Advantages And Challenges Of STEM Education

A cultural competent teacher is a highly effective educator that continuously set high expectations to all students, devote to learning about their students demographics and genuinely show concern for their student’s growth (Snowman & McCown, 2015). In the United States schools are filled with diverse students. For that reason, it is important to acknowledge cultural differences in the classroom. However, there are few challenges that a diverse classroom population poses to a new STEM teacher. For instance a new STEM teacher would have to learn each student’s demographics and acknowledge factors that may play a role on the student’s learning abilities. Another challenge that a new STEM teacher may face is the ability to successfully teach a lesson that may confuse some religious students, such as topics about creationism and evolution. Some teachers also find it difficult to incorporate empathy into their material and lesson in order to …show more content…
It brings people from different walks of life together, it involves a lot of topics and concerns that are usually not covered in other subjects, and it addresses multicultural and other social challenges faced in a diverse classroom (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010). A lot of STEM aspects involves learning and sharing information and ideas from one another (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010). For instance, some of the best theories were discovered by a group of scientist from different regions of the world, not just one individual. Thus, it is extremely important to teach students how to be culturally empathetic. STEM education promotes cultural empathy because students are encouraged ever day to learn from people with different religion, gender, race, personality, experience etc. It allows students to share their ideas and express themselves, and provide numerous of opportunities where students can use their skills to contribute to something great despite their cultural