CEIAG/STEM

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CEIAG/STEM

• Teacher Placement Briefing

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Expected Outcomes

• By the end of the day participants will have
• an understanding of the STEM agenda
• an understanding of the importance of thorough
  preparation to ensure a relevant and successful
  placement
• discussed and agreed their placement objectives
• completed a Placement Agreement Form

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Why STEM?

• Science
• Technology
• Engineering
• Mathematics

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UCAS

• 5.5 decline in STEM courses from 05/06 to 06/07

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In the last decade

• 31 decline in in students taking Maths,
  Chemistry and Physics at A-Level

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Association for Science Education (ASE)

• 90 of 14 and 15 year-olds know little or
  nothing about careers in Engineering and
  Technology

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Warning Over Skills Gap

• The downward trend in the number of students
  that are taking up STEM disciplines is very
  worrying as a skills shortage makes it harder to
  attract new investments in Northern Ireland
• Martin Murphy, MD, Hewlett Packard
• Belfast Telegraph 03/11/08

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Programme for Government

• Primary focus on growing the economy
• 80 of foreign direct investment in NI in 2008
  in
• ICT
• Business and Financial Services
• Pharmaceutical Industries
• Aerospace Sectors
• To compete in a global market need to enhance
  uptake of STEM subjects in schools
• Ensure our people have the right skills to
  deliver economic prosperity now and in the future
  and increase skills and career choices in STEM
  subjects (PSA 2Skills for prosperity)

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PSA 2 SKILLS FOR PROSPERITY

• Targets
• Increase by 5 the numbers studying STEM subjects
  in Post 16 cohort by 2011
• Increase by 25 the numbers of students,
  especially those from disadvantaged communities,
  at graduate and postgraduate level studying STEM
  subjects by 2015. (extra 1600 STEM graduates
  each year for the next 7 years)

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Urban Myth or Personal Experience?
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Students Views
Limit my career choices
not interesting or enjoyable
too difficult
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PSA 2 SKILLS FOR PROSPERITY

• Actions
• Take steps to increase uptake of STEM subjects
• Highlight STEM Career Opportunities and Pathways
• Increase links with local industry to promote
  STEM
• Ensure learning teaching is planned and
  delivered in a relevant and enjoyable way
• Linking subject content and skills to real life
• (Key Element Employability)

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www.futuremorph.org
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Career Options Raptor Biologist
Todays students parents are unaware of the
range of STEM related career opportunities
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Career Options Raptor Biologist

• Uses of Maths and Science
• Vets and biologists both fall into the category
  of needing to go and get qualified
• Measuring the abundance of small animals

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Career Options Glass Artist
Todays students parents are unaware of the
range of STEM related career opportunities
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Career Options Glass Artist

• Uses of Maths and Science
• Using dichroics and electroplated glass
• Enjoyed Science
• Its important to be able to use maths and
  understand maths.

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Career Options Weather Forecaster
Todays students parents are unaware of the
range of STEM related career opportunities
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Career Options Weather Forecaster

• Use of Maths and Science
• Physics comes into play in a lot of different
  parts of weather forecasting

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Career Options Theatre Technician
Todays students parents are unaware of the
range of STEM related career opportunities
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Career Options Theatre Technician
Uses of science and maths
laws of physics, to work out how to move heavy
propsknowledge of materials properties, to
deduce what to make the set from
He works and communicates with people, such as
lighting engineers, sound engineers, set
designers and set builders
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Keeping Options Open

• STEM Subjects
• widen options rather than narrow them
• Demand for STEM skilled individuals expected to
  grow dramatically in the future
• Open up career opportunities in other
  occupational sectors
• Develop employability skills (TS PC and CCS)
• often lead to higher paid jobs
• PricewaterhouseCoopers research 2005
• often lead to opportunities to work abroad
• solving environmental problems
• developing local solutions

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CEIAG STEM

• STEM Teacher Placements can assist in
• forging links with local employers to support
  future STEM activities within your school
• sourcing materials for the development of STEM
  teaching and learning resources
• developing greater awareness of how aspects of
  your STEM subject might be applied in an
  industrial context
• identifying key employability skills sought by
  employers as well as potential employment
  opportunities for pupils following STEM related
  pathways

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The Future is in Your Hands

• Young children show an initial enthusiasm
  which tapers off by the time they reach secondary
  education
• (Report by Chemical Industry Education Centre,
  University of York)