STEAM Education: Empowering Students to Find Success in the 21st Century

STEAM at CIS stands for science, technology, entrepreneurship, arts and maths. This interdisciplinary teaching approach, which is taking the academic world by storm, encourages students to think about the connections between these five key disciplines through creative thinking, problem-solving, iteration and inquiry.

STEAM plays an integral part of our school curriculum and is integrated across the entire school. Our approach is student-led and hands-on. We focus on activities where students have the opportunity to make connections and solve real-life, authentic problems. This not only helps them to think critically and approach problems from multiple perspectives, but also keeps them motivated and excited to learn more.

During each STEAM project, our students are required to collaborate with their classmates, research, problem solve and think creatively and critically. One of the most rewarding parts of STEAM is observing students apply their knowledge and onvert their ideas into a reality, especially when they see their efforts lead to an actual product that has genuine value to real people. Witnessing them then actively share their discoveries, designs and techniques with their fellow peers is also great.

The strong interest and enthusiasm for our STEAM programme is spreading. Currently, we have students engaged in several different STEAM activities. For example, our youngest learners are developing early math skills through water measurement activities in our Outdoor Discovery Centre's mud kitchen, while older learners are applying science, technology, art and math knowledge in their creation of a special bench for our Kindergarten students to sit on when they take their shoes off.

To learn more about our STEAM programme and have a fun family day at our STEAM Fair on April 22, please sign up at www.cis.edu.sg/STEAMFAIR