Careers Leadership through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)

and other subject areas

27th June 2011Magna Science Adventure Centre

Introductions

• Marie Boswell, RMBC

• Rachelle Hill, TRC

• Jo Booler, Winterhill School

Aim of the workshop

• To share strategies for raising pupil aspirations and attainment by raising awareness of career opportunities within curriculum areas.

Season of change

• Changes in all aspects of school and college curriculum

• Changes in post 16 funding• Changes in CEIAG• Removal of EMA• 16-19 Bursary• Wolf Review• Etc.• Etc.

Please suspend your disbelief - for 1 hour!

Workshop structure

• Big picture – Embedding a structure to support careers advice across an organisation (Careers Champions, Rachelle)

• Focus down to one area – STEM - Context (Marie)- Collaborative curriculum example (Making smoothies, Jo)

• Discussion• Resources • Next steps

Careers Champions

See separate presentation from:

Rachelle Hill

Careers Champion

Thomas Rotherham College

STEM

• Quiz

C:\Documents and Settings\marie.boswell\Desktop\STEM Choices-digital-2011.pdf

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STEM Context

• CBI, (May 2010), Ready to Grow: business priorities for education and skills.

- Youth unemployment- Need to have “strong grasp” of basic skills –

literate/numerate- Employability skills needed- Employer call for action to improve quantity

and quality of STEM graduates.(eg Green Tech/C&M)

STEM RegionallyNational STEM centre https://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk • Yorkshire & the Humber is made up of five counties: North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West

Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire – which are home to 5.2 million people. The region includes part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the North Yorkshire Moors.

Snapshot: STEM business and industry in the region• Last year the government announced a multi-million pound investment into the

region’s manufacturing industry, making Yorkshire & the Humber the heart of the UK’s energy sector. A new Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is currently being developed in the region, which is due for completion by November 2011.

Priority sectors include Advanced Engineering and Materials (AEM) and Healthcare Technologies. Yorkshire & the Humber is also the UK’s largest food-producing region, employing 18% of the sector’s workforce.

In the last 12 months, the region has attracted 147 overseas investors, which is the highest number ever recorded.

The region contributes 7% of the UK's Gross Value Added.

Cross curricular STEM Initiative.ppt

Making smoothies

Discussion

• Other examples of good practice?

• How could you support similar programmes in your institutions?

Resources

Professional Bodies, IoP, Science Learning Centres, ASE…

All subject areas:

RGFL https://public.rgfl.org/Pages/Default.aspx

(Instruction sheet available)

Try it out!

• Resource taken from STEM Choices March 2011 resource pack:

– Careers matching – short activity

– Science and Innovations timeline – longer activity

– Any questions?

Commitment

• Write down at least one positive thing that you will do as a result of this workshop.

Thankyou!

• rachelle.hill@thomroth.ac.uk

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• WHCSJBooler@rgfl.org

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• marie.boswell@rotherham.gov.uk

14-19 School Improvement Consultant