Competencies for STEAM areas: a focus on teacher

Abstract

This article aims to present a mapping of teaching skills for STEAM areas. Society is constantly changing, and Education needs to make changes that enable the formation of the subject integrally. From this perspective, STEAM areas are increasingly present in classrooms, intending to prepare future professionals for this connected and technological world. Thus, to embrace this new society, it is pertinent to build new teaching skills that can contemplate the integral formation of the student. Methodology: The research had a qualitative approach of the interpretive type, of an applied nature, being exploratory regarding the objectives and using the case study as a procedure. The instruments were the productions of the participants of an online course and participant observation. Results and conclusions: In this study, 80 teachers participated, and the data presented denote a concern of teachers to build pedagogical competencies in the pedagogical perspective, with methodologies and action strategies, as well as technological ones, from basic training in the use of technologies. Thus, in total, 11 teaching competencies were mapped to work in STEAM areas. In addition, it was possible to glimpse suggestions of educational and digital tools that can be used in pedagogical practices, as well as active methodologies that apply in the presented context.