Staying Ahead of the Curve in STEM
Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Gilda Lyon STEM Coordinator Georgia Department of Education 4/21/2015 1 Why STEM? Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org STEM education is an economic imperative for Georgia and America The demand for workers in STEM occupations is increasing at every education level. By 2018, America will be short one million nurses, 200,000 doctors, and 400,000 engineers. There are 3 unemployed people for every 1 non-STEM job. There is 1 unemployed person for every 4 STEM jobs. 4/21/2015 2 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org We want our children to be able to find a good job, move out of the house, and raise a family without our funds= STEM education. 4/21/2015 3 STEM Certification Process Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org STEM School Certification STEM Program Certification Three types of STEM Schools/Programs Exclusive Inclusive Career Academies 4/21/2015 4 The students in the program must be designated as the STEM population. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 5 Non-traditional student participation Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 6 Curriculum characteristics that are sustainable and unique Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 7 100% of STEM teachers are certified in his/her subject area Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 8 Teacher professional learning is on-going and in content area Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 9 Time is allocated for STEM teachers to collaborate and plan together Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 10 Students complete a STEM pathway Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 11 STEM students are required to take advanced math and science courses (math and science courses for elementary and middle school would need to prepare students for the Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org next grade band) 4/21/2015 12 Business, Community, and Post-Secondary Partnerships involved in instructional program Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 13 Students are involved with math, science, and CTAE Richard Woods, competitions on a regular basis (there must be evidence of all three). Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 14 Performance assessments Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 15 STEM Integration Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 16 STEM Labs Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 17 Student rigor & relevance & instructional quality Quadrant C: Assimilation Quadrant D: Adaptation Students extend and refine Students have the competence to their acquired knowledge to think in complex ways and to apply be able to use that their knowledge and skills. Even when knowledge automatically and confronted with perplexing routinely to analyze and solve unknowns, students are able to use problems and create extensive knowledge and skill to solutions. create solutions and take action that further develops their knowledge and skills. Quadrant A: Acquisition Quadrant B: Application Students gather and store Students use acquired knowledge to bits of knowledge and solve problems, design solutions, and information. Students are complete work. The highest level of primarily expected to application is to apply knowledge to remember or understand this new and unpredictable situations. information. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 18 Student internships and/or capstone project Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 19 Effective Technology Integration Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 20 Accountability Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 21 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Building Capacity to Meet STEM Certification Criteria 4/21/2015 22 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 4/21/2015 23 Marietta Center for Advanced Academics Rockdale Academy for Science & Technology Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, & Technology Center for Advanced Studies at Wheeler High School Henderson Mill Elementary The Academy of Mathematics, Science, & Technology at Kennesaw Mountain High School Carrollton Elementary School Hightower Elementary School Lanier High School-CDAT Dunwoody Elementary School Tucker Middle School Brookwood Elementary School Rocky Branch Elementary School Forsyth Central High School Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 100/195 of Georgia school districts have at least one school working on STEM Certification or………… 52% of school districts 4/21/2015 25 Decatur City Atlanta PS Thomasville City Carrollton City Rome City Dalton City Buford City Bremen City 4/21/2015 26 26 Girls Adventures in STEM Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org March 24th- KSU 4/21/2015 27 NASA Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger 4/21/2015 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org 28 STEM Georgia Teachers Academy Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Designed to support K-12 efforts to include STEM education in the school curriculum. 4/21/2015 29 Georgia STEM Forum Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org OCTOBER 26-27, 2015 ATHENS, GEORGIA CLASSIC CENTER Designed to support K-12 efforts to include STEM education in the school curriculum. 4/21/2015 30 Georgia STEM Day Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Sponsored by the Technology Association of Georgia 4/21/2015 31 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org STEM Georgia Teacher Laureates Teachers can earn digital badges to win gift certificates, awards, and become a Georgia Power Teacher Laureate. http://stemgeorgia.org 4/21/2015 32 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org STEM Georgia Online: http://stemgeorgia.org Enables users to find STEM resources, materials, links to STEM schools, grants, competitions, lesson plans, and more. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/stemgeorgia @stemgeorgia enables users to receive tweets about STEM updates, grants, scholarships, workshops, information, articles, resources, and more. 4/21/2015 33 Contact information: Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Gilda Lyon STEM Coordinator [email protected] 404.463.1977 4/21/2015 34
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