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STEM for ALL:
Effective Models for Underrepresented Students
October 10, 2013
The context: options, choices, and STEM
Options and choices
Options
Choices
STEM
STEM education is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates the content and skills of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEM Standards of Practice guide STEM instruction by defining the combination of behaviors, integrated with STEM content, which is expected of a proficient STEM student. These behaviors include engagement in inquiry, logical reasoning, collaboration, and investigation. The goal of STEM education is to prepare students for post-secondary study and the 21st century workforce.
~ http://www.msde.maryland.gov/MSDE/programs/stem
Confront the brutal facts
By 2018, 92% of traditional STEM jobs will be for those with some postsecondary education.
Close to two-thirds of STEM job openings will be for those with Bachelor’s degrees and above.
Source: Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce: STEM
Did you know 2013
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvo5FlRqmM
Did you know 2013
Today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.
The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist,
using technologies that haven’t been invented….
in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems.
Did you know 2013
In 2002, Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development
The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education
Did you know 2013
Today more than 220 of the world’s biggest companies have their IT operations based in India
Did you know 2013We live in exponential times2.7 zetabytes (2.7x1021) of unique information will be created worldwide this year
That is more than in the previous 5,000 years
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
Did you know 2013For students starting a four-year technical or college degree,
half of what they learn
in their first year of study
will be outdated
by their third year
of study.
Maryland – creating the foundation
Maryland School Performance Assessment Program 1991 - 2002Standards-based, aligned to curriculumConstructed responseIntegrated reading, language, writing, mathematics, science, social studiesUsed for program evaluation and school improvement
Maryland – creating the foundation
No Child Left Behind 2002 - 2014 Four High School Assessments were
required as a graduation requirement beginning with the class of 2009 End-of-course, standards-based tests, aligned to
the curriculum Used for individual scores and school
improvement
Maryland – creating the foundation
Race to the Top - 2010 Focused on student achievement, reducing
gaps, turning around struggling schools, improving teaching profession
ESEA Flexibility Waiver
Effective instruction – the secret of the cycle
Effective use of dataUse data as a flashlight, not a hammer
Guiding Questions
How are we doing compared to:
STANDARD? (Local, State, National)SELF? (Trends over time)Others? (Local, State, National)
A picture is worth a thousand words
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State and local efforts
Educator Effectiveness Academies Preschool STEM Maryland Out of School Time (MOST)
network Uteach program
State and local efforts
Maryland Business Roundtable PreK – 6th grade teacher endorsement in
STEM K12 Longitudinal Data System Office of STEM Initiatives
Technology Education: the T and E in STEM One credit graduation requirement that includes the
application of knowledge, tools, and skills to solve practical problems and extend human capacities (COMAR 1992)
MD State Curriculum based on five overarching standards aligned to ITEEA’s Standards for Technology Literacy: The nature of technology The impacts of technology The engineering design and development process The core technologies The designed world
CTE Career Clusters & Pathways
o Arts, Media and Communication o Business Management and Finance o Construction and Developmento Consumer Services, Hospitality and Tourismo Environmental, Agriculture and Natural Resourceso Health and Biosciences o Human Resource Services o Information Technologyo Manufacturing, Engineering and Technologyo Transportation Technologies
Critical Thinking:The 16 Habits of Mind
Critical Thinking:The 16 Habits of Mind
Things to think about right now
Things to think about right now Micromessaging
Small, subtle, semiconscious messages we send and receive when interacting with others
Micro-inequities Negative micromessages
Micro- affirmations Positive micromessages
~ excerpted from PowerPoint by Claudia Morrell, NAPE
~ based on research of Mary P. Rowe, Ph.D.
Equality vs. Equity
People look into the future and expect that the forces of the present will unfold in a coherent and predictable way, but any examination of the past reveals that the circuitous routes of change are unimaginably strange.
No logic and no prophesy can explain ….
Rebecca Solnit