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STEM Education In Maryland. STEM Education 101. What? Why? How?. Making Connections to the Real World. Today’s Outcomes. Participants will: Review the concepts that support STEM Education in Maryland. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What? Why? How?

Making Connections to the Real World

STEM Education

101

STEM Education In

Maryland

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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

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“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

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“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.

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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

STEM In Maryland

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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.

STEM In Maryland

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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.

STEM In Maryland

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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.

STEM In Maryland

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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.

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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.

STEM In Maryland

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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.

STEM In Maryland

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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.

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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

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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!

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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.

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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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A Thoughtful Analogy

Learning SystemConventional System

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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.

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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

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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

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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).

STEM In Maryland

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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

STEM In Maryland

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”

~ Denis Waitley

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Evaluation

STEM Education In

Maryland