ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the curriculum initiatives, projects, engagements, partnerships, and future directions of the Center for Integrated STEM Education, Inc. (CISTEM). The CISTEM, established in 2019 by Unilab Foundation's STEM+PH in partnership with the University of the Philippines College of Education, aims to strengthen integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education through capacity building for teachers and educational institutions, curricular innovations, maximized network linkages, and learner empowerment.
The chapter focuses on CISTEM's Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, and Mathematics (STEAM) innovation programme. It is a year-long programme that involves 1,000 students from 13 STEM schools in one of the poorest provinces in the Philippines. It reports on the consultation and dialogues with stakeholders that have helped define the STEAM research and innovation agenda for senior high schools, the capacity-building workshop on design thinking that has been implemented to develop 108 teachers, and the curriculum that embeds design thinking for generating innovations in senior high schools. Future directions of the programme are also discussed.
