dr. ofer rimon : director of the science and technology administration, israel's moe
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Promoting “a culture of scientists”. A systematic STEM policy change across Israeli education system. Dr. Ofer Rimon : Director of the science and technology administration, Israel's MOE Hagit Yaffe-Wiesel : Intel CAG, Israel. Allow me to invite you join us To the journey we took - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dr. Ofer Rimon : Director of the science and technology administration, Israel's MOEHagit Yaffe-Wiesel : Intel CAG, Israel
Promoting “a culture of scientists”
A systematic STEM policy change across Israeli education system
Hagit Yaffe-WieselIntel
Maya HalevyMOS
Manon HaranMOS
Dr. Ofer RimonMOE
Allow me to invite you join us To the journey we took in the last several months…
It all began a year ago, in this exact event…We were:
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Current situation : STEM formal education system Solving national issues
The problem: poor achievements in international STEM scoring
MOE solution: a flagship program “STAR” (scientific/technological as reserve)
increase % of students completing matriculations with quality STEM majors by:
Adding more instructional hours to schools
teacher training/having more qualified teachers and
Improving infrastructures to schools
Offering incentives for students
Current situation : STEM formal education systemSolving national issues
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Adding PBL into the formal systemResults of the dialogbetween Intel and MOE
Two elements were added to have comprehensive plan with higher impact:
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Go to cultural change
Developing a culture from bottom up, across the national system
A 3-4 years program
Building a wider infrastructure to ISEF
Open science for all , not only the bright once
Forming a coalition of stakeholders : MOE, municipalities, museums, science centers, industry, and academia
Promoting “a culture of scientists” The industry added value A Campaign to increase youth motivation
Industry to lead a motivational effort via role modeling for student - NEW
Many other different competitions and programs without connection
Intel ISEF in Israel exists 15 years and attracts voluntarily a few hundred teens yearly
What we had in the past (competitions)
In High schools No demand and no benefit for students who did
research projects Only technological schools/major require projects
but the average level is not very high
As a result, only the intrinsic motivated students carry out a research, and only the very good once participate in Intel ISEF
And we receive a lot of PR and governmental attention
In Elementary and Junior High schools PBL is well known but not in massive use Science Fairs are rare in schools level
Why?
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Our objectivesThree official (MOE) main objectives: Expand meaningful project based approaches across schools in Israel
Create an infrastructure to feed ISEF as single formal national fair Israeli students to excel in the international competitions
Our objectives
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Building a national infrastructureImplementation in 4 parallel paths
The national fair is the top of the pyramidThe infrastructure for middle schools and elementary schools was build bottoms up
Building a national Infrastructure:Implementation in 4 parallel paths
School fairsElementary-Middle school-High school
City/Regional fairsElementary-Middle school-High school
Country level fairElementary-Middle school-High school
ISEF
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A three year program – a long term investment
Program roadmap:a long term investment
2011- 2012:developing the program, mapping, building infrastructures and launch pilots
2012-2013: implementation of the pilot phase and first results
2013-2014: expansion (12 big cities, 4 focus subjects)
2014: expanding the program to full scale
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Compliance Identification Internalization
Implementation in 4 parallel paths
Implementation in 4 parallel paths
Systematic formal policy change : school fair requirement (selected grades: 6’th and 10’th)Path 1:
City fair: 3 demonstrating cities (pilot)Path 2:
Country fair Path 3:Supporting programs : improve the quality of projects in the national fairPath 4:
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Path 1 : changing the formal curriculum across the national systemCreated national standards, resources and materials for teachers and student
Path 1: changing the formal curriculumacross the national system
For the teachers: 15 instructional hours added to the
curriculum for PBL Recourses created: exemplary units, topic
suggestions, and evaluation criteria Teacher training Mapping informal STEM centers/
museums /labs to support the projects
For the students: Examples of project ideas “How to write a project” guide
מדיניות
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We selected 3 cities to be a model cities - they held a city fair this year
A local coalition : MOE, municipality, academia, industry and local science centers
The city/regional fair is fed by the excellent school fairs projects at the 3 age levels
We incorporated the international and national standards in this process
Path 2: Establishing city fairs mechanism
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Jerusalem city fair, April 2012 Collaboration of Municipality, MOS, HUJI, local
center
106 projects
60 schools
Hundreds of students celebrating Science
Mayor attendance
Jerusalem city fair - a local example
2011
No city fair
Almost no projects
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Path 3: Country level fair and National fair (ISEF)
Country level fair
Country level fair is fed by the city/regional multiple fairs
Top projects can apply the to international fairs
National level fair
Enjoy a lot of PR and governmental attention
Well established, good reputation
Involvement of Intel volunteers as mentors
short movie about ISEF
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;Path 4: supporting programs to national fair
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“In the Path of Research”opening the gates to academy Intensive 5 day program,
in the university campus
Learning in depth one current academic research , in a university lab
Final event: a competition presenting the research to others
“High tech” team
Focus on the electronic subject
A small team of 12 “electronics stars” students
A "team of excellence" supported with engineers from the High Tech industry (first team: INTEL)
Creating innovative projects
ISEF – national fair – March 2012
Time line
Educator Academy
May 2011
ISEF - national fair
March 2012
city fair -Jerusalem
25.3.12
city fair -Lod
17.5.12
city fair -Beer-Sheba
25.5.12
Country level fair - Jerusalem
5.6.12
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outcomes
Cultural changes started Top down and Bottom up aligning all stakeholder to work in a coalition Transition from compliance to identification
Summary
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The result: Impact on the national system on Israeli teachers and students
MOE added critical elements to national program Policy change Budget Declaration (ISEF became 1 of 5 official competitions)
Programs implementations Quantity - opening science to all: City/country fair Quality: Support programs
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Key takeaways for other Countries
Key takeaways for other Countries
How can this be applicablein your country?
What are the takeaways you can adopt?
About cultural change
There are 3 stages of cultural change/impact:
Based on rewards Vs. sanctions
Motivation is self utility
Short term and shallow
Compliance
* H. Kalman
Internalization Internalization of the value
Motivation is intrinsic
Long term and deep
Identification Understanding of the value for me
Motivation is to be like the influencer
Mid. term and not stable enough
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