Stephen Keast

Stephen Keast is a Science education lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. His research and teaching interests are based on understanding and developing teacher professional wisdom, and its dissemination to teachers through effective professional development. He was a secondary school teacher for 15 years.

4 total results
Thinking about thinking
Thinking about thinking
May 14,2014

Giving students time to think, and changing the way you respond to their thoughts, allows you to withhold judgement, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain.
learning activities, Teacher archives, long reads
One step backward, two steps forward
One step backward, two steps forward
May 14,2014

By stepping back and letting your students have some control of their learning, you can step forward in your own practice, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain.
science, STEM, effective teaching methods, student engagement
Linking content to students' interests
Linking content to students' interests
May 14,2014

Students of all ages are encouraged to learn by the same favourable classroom conditions, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain.
science, effective teaching methods, early years, Teacher archives, long reads
Teaching, and really teaching
Teaching, and really teaching
May 11,2014

Here’s a simple question: what should we be teaching our students in science classrooms that will be of most use them? The answer, as Stephen Keast and Rebecca Cooper explain, is to teach them to think for themselves, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.
Teacher archives, long reads, science, STEM