STEM Learning Practices for Bulgarian Teachers

In 2021, through the National program “Building a School STEM environment”, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science financed the construction of school centers with a focus on STEM. Projects for building STEM centers in schools were financed in two categories: small (up to 50,000 BGN) and large (up to 300,000 BGN). 150 Bulgarian schools already have built or are currently building a modern base for preparing students for 21st century skills have been funded thus far. Naturally, the question for training the teachers for working in new learning environment arises, both from a technical point of view and in terms of the educational resources that are to be used. The article provides a brief overview of the digitization process of the Bulgarian schools in two directions – administrative and methodological, examines the challenges in front of the teachers when building scenarios for a STEM lesson, provides a brief overview of the materials that would be useful when teaching the content and analyzes the challenges and difficulties they face in building scenarios for a STEM lesson.