Transcript STEM on STEM Education STEM Stakeholders Working on STEM Education Dr. Michael Leung, Dean, College of Science, CSU East Bay.

STEM on STEM Education
STEM Stakeholders
Working on
STEM Education
Dr. Michael Leung, Dean, College of Science, CSU East Bay
New Approaches From
New Realizations and Understandings
•
New Breadth
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New Depth
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New Partners
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New Technology
New Breadth
Elementary
Middle
High
Community
Schools
Schools
Schools
Colleges
Foundational
Certificates
NSF/MSP
Math Academy
NASA
Liftoff
Transfer
Pathways
CSU
Postbac
Programs
Noyce/
MSTI
Programs
Bonding Programs to Create the Big Picture
Careers
Professional
Stackable
Certificates/
MS/
PSM
New Depth
The Trinity of Learning
• Teachers – improve content knowledge and
engage students in learning
• Students – assume responsibility for learning,
make use of learning opportunities and gain
skills to learn despite challenges
• Parents – build stable family education
connections and provide role models and
guidance
New Partners
• Connecting STEM practitioners with
educators
• Mutual understanding of issues on both
sides
• Involvement of industry partners beyond
just fiscal support
• Partnership to curriculum and classroom
levels
New Technology
• Elimination of distance
• Easy access to knowledge and learning
resources
• Shifting of emphasis from accumulation of
knowledge to utilization of knowledge
• Facilitation of project-based problem solving
learning
• Self-guided learning
Examples from East Bay
• Strengthening and extending of
STEM education pipeline
• Stoppage of leakages
• Bonding of essential components
• Strategic planning based on the big
picture
Foundational Science
Certificates
A model for the preparation and
professional development of
elementary and middle school
teachers in California to strengthen
science instruction and application
of STEM principles
Process - Outcomes
• Courses in content knowledge and method – upskill teachers
to increase science teaching effectiveness, confidence, and
instruction time
• Involvement of STEM practitioners – develop project-based
problem solving learning and relate mathematics and science
to real-life applications in engineering and technology
• Preparation for CSET I and II – earn Foundational General
Science Credential
• Partnering with Foundation Mathematics Certificate –
facilitate coordinated mathematics and science enhancement
Community College Transfer Project
Goals
• Increase the number of students seeking
science and mathematics single subject
teaching career
• Strengthen pipeline with community
colleges and stop leakage
• Build better coordination with community
colleges in recruitment and advisement
• Develop joint efforts to reach out to high
school students
Process - Outcomes
• Articulation - develop course patterns and academic
criteria for transfer students
• Advising - establish a joint academic and financial aid
advising system for community college students
• Faculty Dialogue – CSUEB and CC math and science
faculty discuss course content and successful
pedagogical techniques
• Affiliates Program - students at CSUEB and partner
community colleges are paid to tutor in local high
schools
Noyce and MSTI Programs
Addressing the Big Picture
• Strengthen overall effort in increasing
single/multiple subject mathematics and
science teachers on all levels
• Provide financial and academic support to
students
• Provide professional development to preand in-service teachers
• Monitor the big picture and identify areas
of need
Practicing What We Preach
The application of
STEM problem-solving principles
to develop solutions for
STEM education
STEM on STEM Education
Thank You!
Michael Leung
Dean, College Science
CSU East Bay
[email protected]
510-885-3441