What? Why? How? Making Connections to the Real World STEM Education 101 STEM Education In Maryland
Jan 03, 2016
What? Why? How?
Making Connections to the Real World
STEM Education
101
STEM Education In
Maryland
Participants will: Review the concepts that support STEM
Education in Maryland. Identify connections between the STEM
Standards of Practice and the skills needed in the 21st Century workforce.
Develop a plan of action to begin or continue implementing STEM Education at your school and/or in your district.
Today’s Outcomes
“Build To Express”
Multiple Perspectives
Merged into One
What is STEM?
The purposes of this activity are as follows:• To express multiple
perspectives about STEM Education
• To relate individual understandings of STEM Education to the perspective maintained by MSDE
• To expand the general understanding of STEM Education through interpretation and communication of information
“Build To Express”You will have only one (1) minute to explore the items in your Lego Kit, and only three (3)
minutes to work with your team to build a model that communicates your group’s
understanding of STEM Education.
Here are the Rules All team members take part in the activity Everyone shares Everyone listens Please defer judgment Build on the ideas of others
Questions?
Ready … Set … Go
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Sharing Out
As you share out, explain the group’s understanding of STEM Education.
Explain the group process used in completing this activity.
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STEM Education is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates the content and skills of the STEM disciplines and other disciplines to answer complex questions, investigate global issues, and solve real-world problems and challenges to prepare students for post-secondary study and the 21st century workforce.
STEM Standards of Practice define STEM instruction by defining the combination of behaviors, integrated with STEM content, which are expected of STEM-proficient students.
STEM Standards of Practice Frameworks identify what students must know and be able to do to demonstrate STEM proficiency.
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STEM-Centric Pedagogy
STEM-Centric Pedagogy
Challenge Based
Learning
Problem Based
Learning
Project Based
Learning
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STEM Education
should always include a
connection to a career fieldso that students recognize the
practical application of knowledge and skills in everyday life.
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The BasicsWhat STEM Is…
An approach to teaching and learning
How you teach Integration of content Transdisciplinary Student-Centered A complement to
curricular pacing and daily instruction
FOR ALL STUDENTS!
What STEM Is Not…
Just science A curriculum or content
area What you teach Teacher-Centered Just a project An add-on or diversion Just for special
populations
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The Deep Dive
One Company’s Secret Weapon for Innovation
Why STEM?
The purpose of this activity is to Identify connections between the STEM Standards of Practice and the skills needed in the 21st Century workforce.
Deep Dive Task #1
1. Individually, as you watch the video, make a list of the skills and knowledge students will need to be successful in the environment of the 21st Century workforce.
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Deep Dive Task #22. Working as a group, compare your list of
skills and knowledge with those written down by others in your group.
3. Record your group’s responses on chart paper.
4. Place a star next to skills and knowledge that you think are STEM-related.
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Deep Dive Task #35. Each bag contains one puzzle. The puzzle
represents one of the seven STEM Standards of Practice (SOPs).
6. Work with your team to connect the pieces of the puzzle to uncover how the SOP is operationalized in the classroom.
7. Make a quick circuit around the classroom to look at all seven SOPs.
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Engage in Inquiry
STEM proficient students will engage in inquiry to investigate global issues, challenges, and real world problems.
A. Ask questions to identify and define global issues, challenges, and real world problems.
B. Conduct research to refine questions and develop new questions.
STEM Standards of Practice
Standard
Student Proficiencies
STEM Proficient Student Statement
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Deep Dive Task #48. Now, compare the STEM Standards of Practice
to the list of skills you created as you watched the video.
9. Write the number of the STEM Standard of Practice that matches each skill on your group’s list (or would be needed to develop that skill).
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Deep Dive Task #510. Examine the PARCC Assessment Items
included in your bag.
In your group discuss how the STEM Standards of Practice support the knowledge and skills students will need to answer the PARCC Assessment Items. Think conceptually as well as instructionally.
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Group Share Out 11. Take a few moments to reflect on
the questions below. Jot down your thoughts and ideas and be ready to share with others.
A. What are the instructional implications of the skills needed for the 21st century workforce?
B. How do the STEM Standards of Practice support acquisition of this knowledge?
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Why STEM?To inspire and prepare Maryland’s students
to be both college and career ready and STEM-proficient members of society in order
to prepare generations of learners to meet the challenges of the global society through
innovation, collaboration, and creative problem solving.
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Units, Lessons, Environments, PLC’s, and the
CommunityIdeas and Strategies
to Jumpstart Your Mission
The How of
STEM
We want to help educators realize that instruction is changing, and in order for instruction to change, how we plan and how we implement instruction also has to change.
This represents a paradigm shift in the way we work; and it requires a necessary change of mind-set on the part of classroom teachers and administrators.
Four Essential Tasks
that teachers can do in order to lead their students to
successful STEM Education"Voting Next Steps and Tips." STEM in The Early Grades. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2014
So, How Can You Make STEM Part of What Your Students Do
in the Classroom Every Day?
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Dr. Shelley Green
Professor of
STEM Education
Nova Southeastern University
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Dr. Green’s 4 Essential Tasks
o Task I – Change Your Lens
o Task 2 – Enlist a Village of STEM Educators
o Task 3 – Integrate STEM Across Disciplines
o Task 4 – Give Kids More Than Just Access to Technology
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How Does Each of Dr. Green’s 4 Essential Tasks Support the
Implementation of STEM Education?
o Move to a corner of the room.o In your group discuss how the Task
featured there supports and enhances the creation of a STEM-centric classroom?
o Record your responses on chart paper.
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Let’s Discuss
Now, let’s look at Dr. Green’s 4 Essential Tasks one at a time and discuss how they
are involved in the creation of a STEM-centric classroom.
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Most teachers do not have to overhaul the way they teach in order to become strong STEM educators.
“It is about changing the lens through which we view our teaching practices.”
Task #1:Change Your Lens
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Teachers should not have to carry the entire responsibility for STEM Education.
We need partners.
Task #2:Enlist a Village of STEM Educators
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Sch
ool
Dis
tric
ts
Hig
her
Ed
ucation
Business
Partners
STEM
EDUCATIONSchool DistrictsBusi
ness
Partn
ers
Higher EducationIt Takes a
Village – A Global Village!
Community Connectionsprovide real-world context for learning
When a community partner or STEM specialist visits the classroom,
he/she brings genuine experience and expertise that connects the
content and skills being covered in the classroom to their use and importance in the real world.
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These experiences provide relevance for the learning and
demonstrates authentic application of the knowledge and skills to deal
with real-world problems.
Task #3:Integrate STEM Across the Curriculum
The skills developed through STEM learning need to be integrated.
“So much would be gained if all teachers – art, music, reading, social studies, math, and science – were able to spend some of their precious professional development
time on STEM.”
~ Dr. Shelly Green
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Task #4:Give Kids More Than Just Access to
TechnologyMere exposure to educational technology is
not sufficient for true STEM learning.
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A Thoughtful Analogy
Learning SystemConventional System
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The Traditional Traffic Signal
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Traditional Teaching
“Dear Bored of Education … so are we!”
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The Round-About … A Completely Different Approach
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Embrace the Change. Go with the Flow!
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Collaborative, Effective, Thoughtful,Problem Solving, Interactive, For Everyone,
Engaging, Hands-on, Real-World Context
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Next Steps…
Take It Back!
Put It into Action in Your School or
District
Where Do We Go From
Here?...
A Placemat or Your STEM Plan?
Work alone or with a small group to develop a plan for yourself, your school, your department or grade level.
o STEM starts with quality instruction
o STEM requires teachers who measure their own success by students’ success
o STEM requires teachers who are willing to break down the silos and work together toward a common goal
o Look for the natural connections among disciplines
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Key Take-Aways
o STEM involves a mixture of disciplines
o STEM requires an environment that encourages risk-taking
o STEM requires teachers who are willing to foster the vision and be innovative and creative
o STEM requires articulation with schools in the feeder pattern
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Key Take-Aways
Key Take-Awayso STEM requires a commitment of time as
well as dedication and patience. Take the first step and PERSEVERE!
o Different content area teachers should form a team and plan together. Not just Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, but other content areas as well, including the arts, health, physical education – wherever the fit is natural.
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Key Take-Awayso STEM requires support from the
administration in terms of expectations and the environment
o STEM starts with a vision of the outcome: What do you want to accomplish? Where do you want this to go?
o STEM requires community involvement
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Key Take-Awayso STEM team members should think out of the
box. This is not “business as usual”. Both the process and the product are going to be different.
o Integration of different content areas should be a NATURAL FIT.
o Lessons/Units/Projects should involve an authentic, real-world issue, problem, challenge, scenario, situation, etc. (can be of local, national, or global scope).
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Key Take-Awayso STEM experiences should be
hands-on and student-centered. No more “Sage on the Stage.”
o To assess, students should be asked to demonstrate their understanding.
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ROOTS AND WINGS
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“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”
~ Denis Waitley
Evaluation
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