STREAM Education - Potential for Engaging Students in Generating Innovative Green Ideas and Development of Transversal Skills

The article presents pedagogical strategies in the design of a STREAM approach-based initiative. The details in the training scenario are examined, the main stages in the design of the individual lessons and the tools for studying the progress of the students are described.An interdisciplinary Project Based Learning (PBL), in which students are researchers of real problems, creators of authentic content and creative products, is implemented in an innovative high school with foreign language training and additional profiling in the fields of Mathematics, IT and Entrepreneurship. A team of two teachers, participants in a Professional Learning Community (PLC), develop the design of this type of training, change the working conditions and develop a learning environment different from traditional formal learning spaces. Teachers act as mentors and facilitators, engaging 14- and 15-year-old students in the adventure of identifying problems, proposing solutions, and advocating for a position. The focus is on the development and evaluation of transversal skills acquired through the methods of foreign language learning and computer science. Optional IT learning groups have the potential to free space for extracurricular learning. Organized that way, students acquire and master competencies in the field of computer science. The development shares the details regarding the idea of integrating learning approaches from the two subject areas - computer science and foreign language learning. The assessment and self-assessment tools provided in the development are easy to use and can provide quick feedback to students and teachers and measure the effectiveness of learning and teaching. Some conclusions are drawn and the proposed methodological approaches are commented on, the challenges in the work are described and options for overcoming them are indicated.