The New STEM Teacher’s Essential Guide
Five Fundamental Practices to Help You and Your Students Thrive in Any STEM Subject
by Bryan Holmes
What’s inside:
This book is built around Five Fundamental Practices you can start using before the first day of school:
1. Build Personal Connections with Students.
2. Teach Students to Learn How to Learn.
3. Give Students Responsibility and Choice.
4. Encourage Creativity in Students.
5. Provide Students an Integrated Curriculum.
Each chapter walks through why it matters, exactly how to do it, and the real classroom results — plus a downloadable template or example for every practice, free on this site.
Available in 2027 in paperback or ebook.
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More About This Book
The New STEM Teacher’s Essential Guide: Five Fundamental Practices to Help You and Your Students Thrive in Any STEM Subject is a how-to book that gives new teachers a systematic way to help all students reach their full potential. It is based on the experience of the author, Bryan Holmes, who set up a series of innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs in various middle and high schools in Connecticut. Bryan’s methods, backed up by educational principles of best practice, are summed up in his “Five Fundamental Practices” for teaching and learning. But along with these key ideas, Bryan provides detailed action items that a new teacher can use right away, along with access to free classroom resources. The goal is for new teachers to benefit from Bryan’s experience and fast track through the sometimes painful first year or two of teaching.
Bryan Holmes | Author | STEM Educator & Consultant 