Investigating Elementary School Teachers’ Challenges and Needs in Implementing STEM Education: The Case of Nusa Tenggara Barat Indonesia

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10.2991/978-94-6463-220-0_9How to use a DOI?

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Challenges; Elementary school teachers; Implementation; Needs; STEM

Abstract

Elementary school teachers in Indonesia, especially in Nusa Tenggara Barat have implemented STEM in their classroom. Unfortunately, not all of them succeed. Therefore, this study is to identify elementary school teachers’ challenges and needs in implementing STEM education. The study used quantitative research of survey design. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentage through SPSS 20 version. The finding indicates the challenge and needs of elementary school teacher in implementing STEM education. The results of the study found that there was connection between teachers’ challenge and needs in implementing STEM education. ‘Lack of hands-on training for students’ which was 94,4%, ‘lack of opportunities for STEM seminars/training/workshop’ and ‘difficult to find ideas for the STEM challenge’ at 90,6%, ‘lack of teacher’s expertise in using activities of experiments’ was 86,8%, and for ‘lack of teacher’s expertise in integrating all STEM subjects’ was 84,9%. All the findings have linked with the result for the STEM education needs of 100% need ‘seminars/workshop/training in STEM education’, ‘guidance or handbook for implementing STEM education’, ‘guidance or handbook for students in STEM’, and ‘training programs for students. Furthermore, the other big challenge was ‘lack of investment and government interest in STEM was 83%. This challenge has linked with all the needs to implement STEM education, included the need of book or ideas for creating STEM challenge at 99%. The result strongly emphasized for training/workshop and guidance/handbook for teachers and students and can be a consideration for government and further research.

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AU  - Fita Sukiyani
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/08/28
TI  - Investigating Elementary School Teachers’ Challenges and Needs in Implementing STEM Education: The Case of Nusa Tenggara Barat Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Mathematics Education and Innovation (ISMEI 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2667-128X
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