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STEM for ALL:

STEM for ALL:. Effective Models for Underrepresented Students October 10, 2013. The context: options, choices, and STEM. Options and choices. Options. Choices. STEM.

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STEM for ALL:

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  1. STEM for ALL: Effective Models for Underrepresented Students October 10, 2013

  2. The context: options, choices, and STEM

  3. Options and choices Options Choices

  4. 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, logicalreasoning, collaboration, and investigation. The goal of STEM education is to prepare students for post-secondary study and the 21st centuryworkforce. ~ http://www.msde.maryland.gov/MSDE/programs/stem

  5. 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

  6. Did you know 2013 Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvo5FlRqmM

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Did you know 2013 Today more than 220 of the world’s biggest companies have their IT operations based in India

  10. Did you know 2013 We live in exponential times • 2.7 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.

  11. Did you know 2013 For 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.

  12. Maryland – creating the foundation Maryland School Performance Assessment Program 1991 - 2002 • Standards-based, aligned to curriculum • Constructed response • Integrated reading, language, writing, mathematics, science, social studies • Used for program evaluation and school improvement

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Effective instruction – the secret of the cycle

  16. Effective use of data Use data as a flashlight, not a hammer

  17. Guiding Questions How are we doing compared to: • STANDARD? (Local, State, National) • SELF? (Trends over time) • Others? (Local, State, National)

  18. A picture is worth a thousand words

  19. Student Data Management System

  20. Reading W B

  21. Math W B

  22. State and local efforts • Educator Effectiveness Academies • Preschool STEM • Maryland Out of School Time (MOST) network • Uteach program

  23. State and local efforts • Maryland Business Roundtable • PreK – 6th grade teacher endorsement in STEM • K12 Longitudinal Data System • Office of STEM Initiatives

  24. 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

  25. CTE Career Clusters & Pathways • Arts, Media and Communication • Business Management and Finance • Construction and Development • Consumer Services, Hospitality and Tourism • Environmental, Agriculture and Natural Resources • Health and Biosciences • Human Resource Services • Information Technology • Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology • Transportation Technologies

  26. Critical Thinking:The 16 Habits of Mind

  27. Critical Thinking:The 16 Habits of Mind

  28. Things to think about right now

  29. 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.

  30. Equality vs. Equity

  31. 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

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