Teachers

Linking you to STEM support

Many organisations offer support for STEM in schools and colleges.

This includes subject-specific help - such as CPD for science, mathematics, D&T and computing - through to provision of enhancement and enrichment activities, and help to embed STEM careers guidance across your school or colleges.

The National STEM Centre site links you to this support either by type or via contact details for key support providers in your region.

News and Events

Our News and Events sections help you to keep in touch with activities from a wide range of organisations, which might be useful for your school or college,

You can visit the News page, or subscribe to our RSS feed, and register for our monthly eNewsletter to stay up to date.

Our Events section collates information about forthcoming activities around the UK, and is searchable by type or location.

Visit the physical library

The National STEM Centre library is open to teachers throughout the year - with a dedicated staff to help you explore the resource collections, and ensure you get the most from your visit.

If you are planning a visit to the Centre please contact our team, who will be happy to advise on the resources we have available.

In addition to a huge variety of physical resources such as multimedia software, interactive teaching resources and a range of archive and modern curriculum books, the library also offers free-to-use photocopying facilities, laptops and work desks should you wish to use them.

The physical library catalogue may be browsed online from here.

The library is open at the following times:

eLibrary and online Community services

For teachers unable to visit us in York, we are also building our eLibrary of online STEM resources.

With over 2500 individual teaching resources ranging from quizzes to fact-sheets to lesson plans to videos and flash animations, the eLibrary is a great place to get inspiration for your STEM teaching. Visit the eLibrary for more information.

We have also recently launched our online Community area, making it easy for you to set up an online discussion forum for sharing departmental resources, collaborating with colleagues in a shared online space or to upload your own teaching resources.

Making the most of your Centre

The National STEM Centre is also an ideal venue for:

Schools and colleges have access to meeting rooms and full catering facilities, where you may work in a purpose designed environment with key materials available to you. High quality, low cost on-site accommodation is also available to our visitors.

If you are planning a visit to the Centre please contact our team, who will be happy to advise on the facilities available to you.

Teacher Associates

We want to work with teachers and lecturers to ensure our resources collections and online support is developed to meet your needs. Our Teacher Associates trial resources in the eLibrary, and help to shape the direction of the National STEM Centre.

More information on becoming a Teacher Associate is available in the PDF document Teacher Associates. which can be found below.