Maker in Teacher (MiT)
Hands-On STEM Learning & Professional Development Workshop for Teachers
Empowering Educators with Maker Skills
In line with the expectations of NEP 2023 and CBSE declaring STEM Education as the theme for Teacher Professional Development, Creya Learning presents the Maker in Teacher (MiT) Workshop Series. By combining practical technology skills with design thinking, experimentation and reflection, the series helps teachers build the confidence to facilitate hands-on, inquiry-led learning in their classrooms.
Why MiT?
Every workshop puts teachers in the learner's seat. They start with a real problem, build something that works, test it, improve it, and reflect on how the same experience can be recreated with their students. No prior coding, electronics or design experience is needed.
- Learning by making: teachers build real solutions rather than only hearing about them
- No prior experience needed: guided step-by-step before open team challenges
- A tangible outcome: leave with a working prototype or classroom-ready teaching resource
- A path back to the classroom: clear reflection on how to adapt the projects for students
Hands-On Learning
Educators in practical STEM activities
Perfect For Education Professionals
School Teachers
Enhance your teaching methods with hands-on STEM and maker education approaches.
Coordinators
Lead your school's STEM initiatives with confidence and expertise.
School Leaders
Understand how to implement and support maker education in your institution.
What Every Workshop Shares
Every workshop in the Maker in Teacher series is anchored in four core guarantees that ensure practical mastery and classroom applicability.
Learning by Making
Teachers build, test and improve a real solution instead of only hearing about one.
No Prior Experience Needed
Each session begins with a guided project before teams take on an open challenge of their own.
A Tangible Outcome
Participants leave with a working prototype, physical artefact or classroom-ready teaching resource.
A Path Back to the Classroom
Every workshop closes with reflection and actionable strategies to adapt the experience for students.
“Teachers who have experienced making for themselves teach it differently. Across the Maker in Teacher Workshop Series, educators gain practical skills and an innovation mindset, and the confidence to create classrooms in which learners turn their own ideas into meaningful, tested solutions.”
— Creya Learning · Maker in Teacher Workshop SeriesThe Eight Workshops
Eight workshops, one idea: teachers learn best by making.
Each is a one-day, hands-on experience that ends with something teachers have built, tested and can take back to their classrooms.
What is Truly Integrative STEM
Teachers take on a hands-on STEM challenge to see how Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics come together around one problem, then reflect on adapting the approach into meaningful classroom STEM experiences.
Design Thinking
Teachers work through the Design Thinking process, from understanding the user to ideating, prototyping and testing, and learn brainstorming techniques they can bring to student-led projects and innovation challenges.
Generative AI
Teachers explore a range of Generative AI tools, practise writing effective prompts to create lesson resources, differentiated content and assessments, and learn to evaluate, refine and fact-check AI-generated outputs.
Build with AI
Teachers move beyond content generation to build their own AI-powered applications, such as helpdesks and personalised learning experiences, using tools such as Thinkable, Figma and Base44.
App Development for Higher Grades
Teachers learn app design in Figma by creating a portfolio or social media-style app, exploring user experience, wireframing and prototyping, then design an app-based solution to a real-world challenge.
Electronics & IoT for Smart Automation
Using the ESP32, teachers build two smart-home projects: an automatic light ON/OFF system and an application that monitors electricity usage, learning how sensors, microcontrollers and outputs work together.
AI-Powered Robotics
Teachers experiment with face and voice recognition using Micro:bit and Arduino, then build an automated lock system that works with a passcode and AI-enabled voice recognition.
Rapid Prototyping Maker Tools
Teachers explore how digital designs become physical objects through two complementary processes: 3D printing, which builds up material layer by layer (additive), and laser engraving and cutting, which removes it (subtractive). They create fun, functional artefacts that they can take away.
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Join our Maker in Teacher workshop and become a catalyst for innovation in your classroom.