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Intel ISEF Educator AcademyMay 2011

Taiwan

Taiwan

Nelson Nan-Shyan Chu

Director General National

Taiwan Science Education Center

nelson@mail.ntsec.gov.tw

Chun-Yen Chang

Research Chair Prof. ＆ Director of

Sci. Edu. Center National Taiwan Normal

University

changcy@ntnu.edu.tw

Rachel Liu

Intel Education Program Manager, Taiwan

rachel.p.liu@intel.com

Proty Jiun-Huei Wu

Physics ProfessorsNational Taiwan University

jhpw@phys.ntu.edu.tw

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Taiwan

Area:36,000,000 km2

Population:23,000,000

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Educational Environment 2010

Types

Number

Kindergartens

PrimarySchools

(1-6)

Junior High(7-9)

Senior High

(10-12)

Colleges & Universities

Schools 3,283 2,661 740 491 163

Teachers 14,630 99,541 51,991 53,163 50,684

Students 183,901 1,519,456 919,802 763,156 1,343,603

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Science Fairs

1. Taiwan International Science Fair (TISF) & Select finalists to participate international science fairs, such as Intel ISEF, CWSF…• Grade 9-12 students• 15 countries, 493 students and 253 projects competing in 2011 TISF

2. National Primary & High School Science Fair (NPHSSF)• School fairs →Regional fairs→National fair (NPHSSF)• ~80,000 students and 20,000 projects participating in school fairs

every year

Organized by National Taiwan Science Education Center

(under the Ministry of Education)

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Top 3 Challenges

– Teaching practices do not support project based learning; conducting research is not part of the curriculum except very few schools with talent programs

– Schools focus on academic performance; low ratio of science fair participants compared to the total population of students.

– lacking research scientists or professional staffs to fully participate the implementation of STEM educational programs

Science Fairs, math and science curriculum

Taiwan STEM Education Challenges

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Taiwan International Science Fair

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Taiwan International Science Fair

Interested to participate in TISF?

Please refer to website

http://en.ntsec.gov.tw/User/Article.aspx?a=14

or email

Marianna Fung

fung@mail.ntsec.gov.tw