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The ASISTM Project is expected to achieve the following outcomes:

1. Encouraging innovation in Australian schools
   • the fostering of a culture of innovation in schools
   • the development of an elevated capacity and predisposition for innovation in school students
   • improved levels of coordination of Science, Technology and Mathematics teaching and learning between primary and secondary schools
   • increased collaboration between Australian schools and science organisations, universities, business and industry and other organisations.
2. Promoting world-class teaching and learning
   • growth in numbers of students undertaking Science, Technology and Mathematics teacher education
   • changes and improvements in teachers' approaches to, and techniques in, teaching Science, Technology and Mathematics
   • improved Science, Technology and Mathematics student learning outcomes
   • enhanced student interest and engagement in the learning of Science, Technology and Mathematics
   • increased numbers of senior secondary school students interested in, and participating in Science, Technology and Mathematics study.
3. Teacher attraction and retention
   • growth in numbers of newly qualified teachers in Australian schools in Science, Technology and Mathematics
   • improved retention of teachers in these fields.

The material has been developed as a part of the Australian School Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics Project funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training as a part of the Boosting Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics Teaching (BISTMT) Programme. 

Over the seven-year life of the Programme, the ASISTM Project will:

• identify and fund an estimated 500 ASISTM initiatives in school clusters; and
• fund the involvement of an estimated 1,300 Teacher Associates in these initiatives.

For more information see: http://www.asistm.edu.au/asistm/default.asp?id=17207