Melissa Gatt

Melissa Gatt

Learning and Teaching and Literacy Leader, St Peters Primary School, Melbourne

Melissa Gatt is a highly experienced Learning and Teaching and Literacy Leader, with a specialised pedagogical interest in STEM education. Her current teaching practice and roles within Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools affords her professional learning which she takes to enable, empower and engage her students to be active citizens who strive to make a difference. Melissa is well respected within the STEM educational field and her network and collaboration with stakeholders provides her with a wide scope when developing authentic and relevant problem-based learning opportunities that aim to build a sense of personal agency for her students.

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Promoting student agency through PBL in STEM
Promoting student agency through PBL in STEM

In the final article of a series about a 3-year Australian research project into Problem Based Learning in school-based STEM education, 2 of the teachers who are co-researchers in the project – Melissa Gatt and Frank Fabri – discuss student agency as a necessary condition for meaningful STEM learning.