Muinin Catalyst Sustainable STEAM Future-ready teaching and learning for resilience

It is imperative that Ireland’s education addresses geo-political concerns; climate, other emergencies and competencies. Muinín Catalyst’s Sustainable STEAM (MCSS) programme is a transdisciplinary pedagogical approach that utilises the Sustainable Development Goals and the Earth Charter as a thematic principle for the creation of place-based STEAM lesson plans and blended learning resources with 21st Century future-ready skills; creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, design thinking and the ability to communicate and develop effective real-world solutions to key global challenges. This is proposed as supporting the transitioning Senior Cycle and offers an agile response to augmenting the Irish Curriculum with 21st Century future-ready skills and builds on three years research and pilot testing. MCSS will work with researchers, students, teachers and curriculum developers to extend and beta test the existing agile, place-based STEAM, SDG curriculum resources. The project will develop 5 additional challenge-based, solution focused, projects: each with 7 linked-learning micro-modules, a total of 80 lesson lesson plans, teachers’ resources and student worksheets including place-based, STEAM teacher in-service CPD.