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will be outdated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