Table 1

**STEP Reform Goals**
**for Mathematics and Science Teaching**
**"TABLE 1"**
STEP teachers at the colleges, universities and K-12 schools will:
1. Use curricula that show relationships between different fields of science or mathematics, and between science, mathematics and other subject areas, such as social studies or reading/language arts.
2. Actively engage students in inquiry, problem-solving and model-building.
3. Use specific strategies found to be effective in engaging female and minority students, especially Native Americans, in mathematics and science.
4. Recognize the progression in learning from concrete to abstract, providing ample opportunities to work with manipulatives and hands-on materials, and first-hand experiences in laboratory or field settings.
5. Provide regular opportunities for social interaction and group work.
6. Use strategies to identify and build upon students' preexisting ideas.
7. Introduce real world applications of mathematics and science.
8. Use appropriate technologies, including graphing calculators, a variety of computer applications (e.g. modeling, laboratory interface systems), telecommunications networks (e.g. Internet), and video technologies.
9. Use assessment techniques that are challenging, varied and allow students to make some choices about how best to demonstrate their learning.
10. Demonstrate effective management in an active classroom.
11. Promote a culture in which teachers' efforts to promote students' involvement in mathematics and science are actively supported by school administrators, parents and other community members.

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