STEM education in indonesia has become a commitment for all of stakeholders in the field of science education in the last several years. All education participants agree to increase the popularity of STEM education in various parties, especially teachers and students. The research has been conducted to see to what extent science teachers in the secondary school interpret and understand STEM education and how Students pertain toward STEM learning. The research was conducted with a descriptive method using a survey approach. A set of questionnaire which comprises open-ended and closed-ended questions about teachers’ and students’ perceptions and understanding regarding STEM education were developed and applied. Responses from science teachers as well as students were then analysed through interpretative methods in which the participants’ own meanings and points of view were sought. The result indicated that STEM education is quite well understood by science teachers. Most of teachers show the same level of understanding toward STEM Education. Unfortunately, not many teachers have applied the STEM approach for science learning in the classroom. This is led to the weak understanding of STEM learning in students’side. Most of students did not familiar with “STEM learning” term. Based on the research, it is reccomended that the science teachers’ training and development should be reorientated and implemented through lesson analysis with various best practices on STEM learning systematically and continually.

The scenario of Industry 4.0 and 21st century skills show rapidly increase and informed. In this century, the main goal of our educational system should be able to answer students needed for living in the world. In recent years, STEM Education has received growing attention to be considered to understand STEM Education. In the South East Asia, Indonesia is one of the biggest country has a large number of human resources that should be developed. This study was aimed to examine the movement of STEM education in Indonesia within the scope of 21st century skills categories by using the content analysis method, examine best practice of STEM education for teachers by investigating engineering design skills training and reviewed the literature from 1990 to 2016 that has emphasized on development of STEM education around the world. The findings showed that STEM Education has been developed around Indonesia and has a positive impact to enhance students’ concept comprehension, literacy, and creativity. Many researches provide evidence the best practice for science teacher to implement STEM Education. STEM has a close to daily life and increase student awareness with the environment.

This study aims to see the effect of the pictorial riddle-based guided inquiry learning model in improving students' creative thinking. This study uses a pre-experimental design research method in the form of one group pretest-posttest design. This study used purposive sampling where the sample was selected on the consideration of the researcher, the sample used was 28 fourth grade students at SDN Gudang. The instrument of this research is the observation of the syntax of the guided inquiry learning model based on pictorial riddles, the observation of creative thinking, and the essay test. The results of this study stated that the average value of the pretest was 21.75 and the average value of the posttest was 31.11. The significance value at the pretest is 0.107 and the significance value at the posttest is 0.200, which means that each significance value is more than 0.05. Hypothesis testing with t-test obtained a significance value of 0.000 <0.005, which means that there is a significant difference. So it can be stated that the pictorial riddle-based guided inquiry learning model has a significant positive effect on students' creative thinking.

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