"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
Content 1. Description: methodology and principals. 2. Principal scheme of involving to STEM career. 3. School STEM Career Center. 4. Description of Activities STEM Career Center. 5. How work Project’ Implementation scheme? 6. STEM Career MODEL GUIDE. METHODOLOGY. We proposed career planning MODEL (vortex model) for the students and there are centripetal and centrifugal “forces”. Students are involved into STEM space by project' teams and social communication opportunities making it available to the maximum. At the same time there is elimination of the career opportunities’ obstacles: poor awareness, absence of successful and attractive career proof, spread of negative stereotypes (e.g. you will be unemployed even with the STEM bachelor’s degree), etc. Starting with the STEM Career Center at school, students are further involved into the circle of vocational, high schools, scientific centers, progressive companies based on STEM sciences, which provide examples of successful scientific career every day, allow “trying” the professions or at least becoming acquainted with the real social and personal achievements of young scientists. Eventually, students identify themselves with the career in STEM choosing that in the country, region or the EU. Here starts the effect of the model centrifugal “force”. It evidences itself through individual career choice, independence, ability to critically evaluate personal potential in choosing a specialty, though not expelling from STEM space, but directing students into one possible path of a specialist, choosing the EU opportunities and preventing emigration from the EU space. Innovativeness evidences itself by the fact that students get proof about a successful young researcher’s career through personal experience. This allows guaranteeing welfare and safety of personal future, at the same time constantly being among the leaders of innovations and to identify themselves with national and European interests in science, research and creation of innovations. Being in the STEM space (or hive) students become an example to other young people, and attract contemporaries through social communication channels. This way the hive of STEM increases, and more and more young scientists share successful career in the LABOR MARKET. PRINCIPALS. 1. Institutional and scientific cooperation between project partners; 2. Horizontal (linear): youth career seeking principle (step-by-step to STEM Career); 3. Vertical study-oriented education and profession fields of cross-disciplinary and science integration (synergy); 4. Mechanism operating from research to pupil involvement is formed. It involves young people into STEM through vortex principle; 5. Career information system is based on arguments, data are publicly available, and through the consultancy principle the youth is taught to use publicly sources; 6. Innovative or effective teaching/learning methods are applied; 7. Activity based in modern ICT means, which allow planning time of studies and communication; 8. Gender equality principle is applied, attracting both girls and boys into a STEM area; 9. Social and problematic STEM content is revealed; 10. STEM Career Center can be: realistic, reasonable on infrastructure and virtual, which operates through other infrastructures.
"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
2. Principal scheme of involving to STEM career
M – participants of activities and students who are introduced with STEM
M – students, who knows about STEM, but have no interest nesusidomėjo, neišbandė centre
M – visitors of STEM career center
M – students, who knows about STEM, but have no interest
M – students, interested with STEM career center and model M – students, analyzed information of STEM career center
M – students, tested modeling of STEM career selection/ planing
M – students, who have doubts about STEM career
M – students, who have doubts about STEM career
M – STEM groups/ individual visitors of center
M/M2/M3 – leaders
M – students, who disseminate information and promt to join STEM M – students, who active participate in STEM career activities and dissemination. Students, who desided to join the STEM career
Permanent information about STEM career center activities, invitation to participate
Dissemination of STEM career in school
"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
3. School STEM Career Center.
2 communications specialists, leaders Information specialist, leader
STEM teams of students (M3) (accordance with choice of career or other interests)
Information about STEM career model (methods, realization schemes, international cooperation) Information about STEM career activities (lessons, seminars, visits to research centers and companies, workshops, practical training, conferences, etc.)
Activities of school STEM career center
Dissemination of model in school Dissemination using ICT tools (web page, social network, and ediary) Dissemination of model to teachers and students of other schools (organizing of seminars in school and other schools) Dissemination of model trough activities (involving students and teachers of other schools)
Dissemination of STEM carrer model
Students‘ consultants (M2) (trained and most motivated for STEM careers):
Information about STEM career (survey results, statistics, reviews, advertisement, social success of career, opportunities)
Information channel / special recources
Teacher consultant (M1) (specialist of methodology, organizer of students activities)
Information channel / public recources
Channel for methodology and inclusion
School STEM Career Center
"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
4. Description of Activities STEM Career Center. CONSULTING: training of student consultants (M1); methodical consultations for teachers (M1); methodical consultations for students (M1); consultation on individual STEM career modeling template (M1, M2). INFORMING / dissemination: informing about STEM career, activities of STEMcc (M1, M2), creating and administration of school webpage (or part of official school website) for STEMcc (M2); create or support project “INSTEM� on TwinSpace in eTwinning area (M1, M2); create or support project website (M1, M2); use Scientix Portal like dissemination channel (M1); use School Education Gateway (funded by Erasmus+) and EDMODO Platform like disseminations channels (M1). Research/SURVEY (M1, M2, M3): research on labor market needs and recent changes (according to statistics of EU, our states and others materials); social content research in the areas of STEM specialists and delivery of information; social study (school level) in how much young people are informed about scientific research and innovation processes, choice opportunities, benefit, etc., and to orient teaching content on the basis of it. INDIVIDUAL activities in STEMcc (M2, M3, individual students): individual search for information about STEM; modeling of individual STEM career, using template; preparing of students scientific works. METHODOLOGICAL activities: building of STEM teams in accordance with choice of career or other interests (M1, M2); organizing of STEM teams round tables supervision (M1); creating of STEM videotheque, story and methods (M1, M2, M3); collection of virtual and real library for STEM career (M1, M2, M3). Organization and TRAINING activities: preparation of young researches - students during informal sessions (M1); lessons of young researcher (M1, M2, M3); organize Erasmus+ Project Days (M1, M2, M3); organize Erasmus+ Project Info Days (M1, M2); visits to research centers and companies (excursions and practical trainings) (M1, M2); organizing of STEM scientific conference at school (M1, M2, M3); participation in other STEM activities, organized by other institutions (M1, M2, M3).
"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
5. How work Project’ Implementation scheme?
STRONG COMMUNITY
T&L in Green Fields
Experiments
Peer-to-Peer
CLIL
Driven to Discover
GIS (ICT mapping)
Survey and Social Statistic
Green energy technology
New technology
Modeling through ICT
OUTPUT– STEM CAREER PTG-1 students PTG-2 teachers PTG-3 parents/families METHODS
METHODS SET
(Biotechnology)
STEM DATABASE
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG ICELAND
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
ITALY
INPUT
OUTPUT: STAY AT SCHOOL + LEARN
+ CONTACTS
OUTPUT – STEM GUIDE
HackLab - OUTPUT – students,parents, teachers
STEM
TURKEY COUNTRY
INPUT
"STEM Career MODEL" / Name of the Project: Innovative Student-Teacher Evolution Model (INSTEM) For Erasmus+ KA2 Application Form / Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only / Call: 2015
6. STEM Career MODEL GUIDE. Media content: Handbook. We propose New Innovative STEM Career MODEL, which involved more and more student in STEM career. We will create, develop and testing our MODEL. We want the outcomes of those to be available through the STEM Career GUIDE to all the students and teachers in our schools, to other educational institutions, to stakeholders or interested persons. The technical construction of the STEM Career GUIDE will done by highly qualified teacher, which have experience in media creation and editing (Lithuania). General content of GUIDE: - Purpose of STEM career MODEL; - Concept and principles of MODEL; - Methodology; - Selected methods in STEM T&L; - HackLab clubs in STEM; - Three problems in school education, which solution can be STEM career MODEL; - Problem-solving (solution); - Transnational conference of students (reports); - Digital spaces and communication through Media and Visualization; - Database of Survey about young researchers social status and career; - Answers to question „Who will help me stay at school?”. - Learning path; - Links to extra resources; - Offer activities and tools of MODEL; - Illustrations of MODEL testing / experience INSTEM.