Professional Development
Teacher STEM Certificate Program
Earn your certificate in STEM education through hands on learning experiences. Learn to integrate STEM into the classroom with research-based best practices led by expert educators in the field.
MAP Mats
MAP MATS is a tool for elementary classrooms that promotes joyful, meaningful, and play-based learning. The MAP MATS activities are STEM based and enhance existing elementary school curriculum.
Free Educational Technology Video Series
Maryville University and First Bank invite you to join us in enhancing our professional practices, sharing a vision for our students, and encouraging one another with the ultimate purpose of improving technology-enhanced education.
Free STEM Video Series
In this STEM Short Course we will develop an increased awareness of STEM, ideas for implementing STEM into your classroom, and an increased desire to explore and learn STEM topics.
Free Video Series: Coding with Python
In this video series, educators can learn to teach code with a simple program called Earsketch.
STEM Curricula
C3: Creative Computing
Curriculum
C3: Creative Computing Curriculum is a collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for an introductory creative computing experience using the Scratch programming language. The activities are designed to support familiarity and increasing fluency with computational creativity and computational thinking.
CREST-M Math and Robotics Curriculum
Today’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce is no more diverse than in 2001. With a $120,000 grant from the Bayer Fund, Maryville University’s Center for Access and Achievement work to close that gap by engaging young females, minority students, and students from low-income areas through a series of 3 STEM units aligned with mathematics Common Core State Standards and LEGO® WeDo 2.0 robotics kits.
CyberReady STL
CyberReadySTL is a 15-lesson curriculum developed with a Bayer computer scientist focusing on incorporating cyber readiness and career awareness among high school students.
The CyberReady program was implemented over two years resulting in students and educators in the five diverse St. Louis County public school districts demonstrating significant and meaningful in understanding cybersecurity content.
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STEM Solvers
THe STEM Solvers Middle School Curriculum was developed by the Center for Access and Achievement with funding by the Bayer Fund. It was implemented in Fall of 2021 with partner districts: Jennings and Ritenour School Districts.