The Informal STEM Learning Professional Competency Framework is a tool for individuals, institutions, and organizations to understand, plan, and advance their professional capacity in the field of informal STEM learning.
Individuals can use the framework to assess their current competencies and to identify the competencies they want to develop. Institutions can use the framework to plan professional development for staff or develop job descriptions. Academic programs can use the Framework to review curriculum or to support student learning and students might use it to consider courses or internships they want to pursue.