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I think the most important challenge is that students can't link between subjects and the real life. I  give examples from daily life to  overcome this challenge  .

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I think that as a computer science teacher is easier for me to show different strategies and resources than most of the other teachers.  Nevertheless sometimes is challenging to show pupils the contents they study and the appliance they can use in the real world (connect theory and practice and show students that science is present every time and everywhere) and keep up with all the news and innovations among us.

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Mitivation is e

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The students are always confronted with examinations and the skills are always missing. And that is a big problem

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Main challenges are motivation, help students see scientists as real people, and the lack of classroom resources. To overcome them the principal way is an extratime dedicated by teacher for planning more and significative activities

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I think it's not always possible to coince the theory with real application, and the students do not get the correct orientation for future choices.

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For me it´s really difficult to find out how to motivate the student everyday, I try overcome them improving my resources every year, I expect that this course help me in this work.

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I think that the biggest difficulty for me as a science teacher is show students the connection between the contents studied and the real world. Moreover, in the day by day of the classroom it is necessary to use different educational strategies and resources, to meet the needs of our pupils.

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I have serious problems with the classroom resources. If my stedents see I can't teach as I need, how can they plan to do anything with technology? They have to study unnecessary matters and that make them to get bored. They are only interested on video games.

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A challenge that should be overcome by every teacher is professional development and especially keeping up to date to the latest news and technologies. It is also important to be able to provide relevant information to students through your teaching subject. This can be done just by following regularly the news in technology and careers developing variously in society

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As an English teacher I have had few opportunities to insert STEM topics in my daily teaching. That's also because I stopped studying science and all the related subjects when I was 18 years old. I did one year of Biology at the university.. but time has been going since then and it's really difficult for me to remember the basics of STEM, even if I have always been really interested in some of its topics. Anyway, since I wanted to relate English to what my students were studying at school, I did teach some STEM contents during my lessons (in particular, coordinates and orienteering and a few things about chemistry and chemical reactions). I used these materials because I understood my students were really interested in them, so I found useful to use these canals to teach English and make it a language of everyday life. I used difende ways of teaching this topics, from reading to ICT materials (videos, presentations etc). What I regard as been greatly useful is rise awareness about the importance of STEM (which I have done) and also give details about future jobs that they can do studying these subjects (which I haven't really done but I want to do in the future). Motivation and engagement are other elements which have a strong impact on the students and their capability to learn.

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The most important is the classroom resources. We have limited resources in our classroom to infusing this STEM career information. On the other hand, The teacher knowledge of Science is also poor. The distance between theory and real experience are too much large. The third factor is not so relevant for me Because we are living in an industrial region and the access to professional and worksites is closed even in the own family this point can be overcomed

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My opinion is that very often teachers don't have enough knowledge of science careers. They stay in schools and don't have much opportunity to see what is going on in enterprises. To overcome it for example our school has a European project where we learn about careers and have visited lots of enterprises.

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In my opinion, the key is presenting stem as a great opportunity for the future as a certainty for job searchers. Trying to propose concrete activities should involve female students.

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I believe that motivations is the key issue. Presenting the importance of STEM will definitely help to raise the student´s interest.

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First issue is teachers has to study more to teach in stem .
Secondly students has to belevieve that they can achive STEM without being a perfect maths and science student

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I think that tecnology  changes too fast and that it's hard for me, as, I think,  for the most of people who don't work in this field,  to keep up with it.
What I can do is to explain students the connection between maths and real world, and to update with courses.

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In Turkey it is very easy task of convincing  boys to take STEM subjects as major at university. Since STEM related professions provide a better and respected future for young people in the society. the major problem is to attract more girls into STEM careers. For this purpose teachers should not directly introduce the topic in classroom; instead they should create an environment where what female scientists have achieved is discussed. Moreover,teachers could make more girls engaged in the scientific projects. When they participate in scientific events, they will interact with the other students and people implementing scientific projects to grasp what sorts of opportunities lying ahead if they take STEM careers.

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I think that, in many cases, is very difficult por teachers work the world of STEM in the classroom because a lot of teachers know STEM but they are not be able to teach. In my opinion, the first challenge is that teachers have courses in order to know haow to teach with STEM 

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I think that, in many cases, is very difficult por teachers work the world of STEM in the classroom because a lot of teachers know STEM but they are not be able to teach. In my opinion, the first challenge is that teachers have courses in order to know haow to teach with STEM 

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The first challenge is to get that pupils understand that mathematic is the science language and that science is present in every single minute of their lives.

Then, the second challenge is to convince the administration that mathematics are
part of science specialities. As mathematics teacher, even if my professional background is the applied physics and  the scientific research, I have realised that usually maths teachers are excluded from  science practices, job shadowing, even formation for bilingual education. It is like if maths were out of science.

Last, but not least, I find difficulties to get visits and other activities being accepted by the department and the administration. Again, they don´t imagine mathematical learning out of the classroom.

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In my opinion the biggest problem is that STEM careers is not considered an important part in Education.
Motivation is the most important thing to discover  the world of STEM

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In my professional activities mostly I focused on awareness and relevance the matter subject and the real life experiences because first of all we should motivate our students and get them the idea why we are doing all these activities why we are learning this information and where we can use all of these and make it personalized. But I have some strengths about engagement and reflective activities because of physical environment and insufficient collaboration among shareholders.

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Students can't be easily motivated in schools as there aren't enough materials and resources. Most students dont know about STEM careers.

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I talk about relevant STEM careers , I use accessible curriculum materials that highlight the “career of the day”; and PowerPoint slides, video clips, or interviews that profilepeople in different science careers, including scientists from underrepresented populations

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I talk about relevant STEM careers , I use accessible curriculum materials that highlight the “career of the day”; and PowerPoint slides, video clips, or interviews that profilepeople in different science careers, including scientists from underrepresented populations

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I think a big problem in my country is the fact that STEM careers is not considered importante and usefull

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STEM is in real life.
I try to conect science to other subjects and find experiments and attracting activities for them.

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As a electrical and electronics teacher one of the biggest problems I have to face is the lack of good and new material (tools, consumables) for the daily practical seasons.

Also, at the end of the academic year my students have to go for 3 weeks to a company for a real practical experience into their field of studies and sometimes the company does not do what it is requested (to give some real experience) otherwise the use the students as a cheap labor force.

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As a primary teacher, I find quite difficult to make closer to the students the scientific and technological world in a motivating way. I try to connect science to other subjects and find experiments and attracting activities for them, but sometimes there is a lack of time, materials...resources in general.

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STEM is in real life. Observation should be the first step. Books and profiles limits us to discover and investigate. They must be used as a support not as the main resource in a class.

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As primary teacher, I think that the biggest challenges for primary teachers concerning STEM Careers and their paths are the unknowledge updated Science Careers and the lack of resources (materials, spaces, time and personal resources) to bring Stem closer to our students.

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I'd say that the lack of knowledge about STEM careers is one of the challenges we could overcome. It's sometimes difficult to present such a topic in my classrooms because it lacks teacher team work.

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Roberto, Spain                     There is too much information available about certain STEM jobs and for ather jobs there is not enough information. When we talk about important scientists we discuss the type of job they have done, trying to see how did they get there.

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Roberto, Spain                     There is too much information available about certain STEM jobs and for ather jobs there is not enough information. When we talk about important scientists we discuss the type of job they have done, trying to see how did they get there.

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The training is for life but a very important part is the future work of the students, so it is very important that they know the possibilities of stem

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I'd say lack of knowledge about potential careers is the biggest challenge I face. I try to overcome it by keeping abreast of science news to discuss what scientists are doing but I'm aware this is not particularly effective and doesn't help students understand what the life of a scientist is like.

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We, as teachers, should make our students life live with passion , also in their studies and their careers.

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1. Physcial conditions of schools are inadequate.
2. Students are afraid making mistakes.
3. Mothers and fathers mostly care about course grades and test results.
4. Practical training is inadequate in the training program

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About my young students, me and my collegue try to link different subiects, use tools in Science and Tecnology and motivate them to study.

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1.Motivation
2.The real world discover with STEM.

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At Primary Education the most important thing is motivation. To discover the world of STEM in the real life .

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it is verrrrryyyy important the guidance in career -the motivation is the first!

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I think the most important challenge is motivation. Nowadays, it's very difficult to motivate students, they need to be aware of the importance of Science and Technology. It is important that teachers lead students towards
the connection between theory and day to day life.

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I think the most important thing is:
Help students see scientists as real people.
We often develop events and projects promoting science and my pupils are active in the eTwinning network.

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In my experience the most important challenges are the poor knowledge teachers have about emerging science-related occupations and the lack of classroom resources. We do everything to overcome them: providing up-to-date materials, bringing professionals into the classroom and students to professional settings.

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Career guidance is important, but the teacher must also connect dots between the real life, jobs, and the subjects that are being presented in classes.

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I find that students think of STEM as 4 sectors that are completely different and dont cross over very much.The lack of knowledge and awareness that the STEM sectors cross over and intertwine so much if the biggest problem. STEM careers need to be advertised more in  a way that students will see and engage with, such as through social media.

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I find that students think of STEM as 4 sectors that are completely different and dont cross over very much.The lack of knowledge and awareness that the STEM sectors cross over and intertwine so much if the biggest problem. STEM careers need to be advertised more in  a way that students will see and engage with, such as through social media.

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As a preprimary and primary teacher my goal is to motivate studens. One of the best ways to motivate them with cience are experiments. There are loads of easy experiments we can do in our classrooms than open doors for Science and STEM careers afterwards.

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As Physics and Chemistry teacher, I have to admit that one of the biggest challenges I have to face daily in my classes is the lack of engagement of the estudents with the subjects... And the great questin is: "Why?"... I think that the main reason for this is the extension of the information we have to teach with limited time and resources, so the classes are often excesively theorical... If we had more time and resources, we could do more practical work, which would be much more attractive for students.

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The ss are given opportunity to have information about the school types and they are given information about career types.But it is not possible to apply it mostly in classroom area.

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Finding the practical part to engage the student into the actual activity they are or could be interested in is difficult . Budgetry constraints and time are a big part , overcoming is generally done by research , reaching out to industry to allow students to visit if allowed .

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I think that the best way to bring the student to Stem careers is to look for the practical part of the contents. They have to live to understand the real meaning of the science.

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I think that the best way to bring the student to STEM careers is to look for the practical part of the contents. They  have to live to understand the real meaning of the science. We use science areas every day so we have to show them.

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As a math teacher, I always find it difficult when it comes to students' professional orientation in the field of STEM. There is a lack of budget in order to visit scientific labs and bring some scientists into the classroom. We do not have any state-level report about salary and job descriptions students might be able to do after choosing STEM.The curriculum changes that have been made this year give us a chance to do more practical work with students. I do research with students near their homes, I try to teach them how to conduct a research and then they use the tools to get to statistical results with the collected information.

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In my daily professional activity I'm often in support of the discipline teacher, therefore I do not make any decision regarding the activity with the whole class, but when I can I try to offer my assistance in order to let the students play the part of the scientists, to let them experience the main role in their education, so they can have a taste of what a career in that field of discipline, whatever it is, not only STEM, but also History for example, is.

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I've never thought about the importance of presenting STEM careers to my students before joining this course. I think it's very useful to let the students think about the topics we've are dealing with and always ask any questions, even if these are not strictly related to the topic. Another thing I usually do is to talk them about the scientists we meet during our studies and sometimes about my previous experience in a research lab. I surely will try to introduce observations about future career opportunities and put in evidence the similarities with the scientists' work during lab experience

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I think it's always hard to show that STEM skills will be useful for our life. Because students cannot imagine STEM career for themselves. I think as a teacher it's our duty to connect dots about STEM and real life in studensts' minds.

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In my daily professional activity as a FP teacher the challenge that is most present is finding up-to-date information related to each module of knoledge. I manage looking for information in books or magazines but the more actualiced is internet.

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In my daily professional activity as a FP teacher, the challenge that is more present is finding up-to-date contens related to each module of knoledge. I search for information in internet, because is the only way to find updated information. Sometimes I manage taking infomation from several books or magazines.

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Very often in classes/schools there are not enough tools to study and passionate students. Some well-motivated teachers get to bring personal equipment (tablets, robots, computers).

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I've carefully read your opinions realising that we face similar changes in our daily work. The main challenges I think are related with the lack of self-confidence with science tools and with the fact that they seem to be unable of seeing themselves as real scientifics in the future. Solutions? Well, I teach biology, so I explain processes the students easily find in their real life. I try to start always since their knowledge on each topic and the questions they would like to solve. With a practical approach including practical lessons at the lab, I try to make them they are able and valuable to solve real scientific problems in the future. And I try also to connect each content to real situations they can easily recognise and to professions they can develop being a satisfying source of self-growing and very useful for the society. I find this approach valuable to develop vocations and motivating for me to teach them. Finally, this approach is very gratifiant for me because it make me motivated to actualise my lessons and I teach to students motivated to learn.

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My greatest challange as a maths and science teacher is to find and relate concepts with real life example that are appealing to young students. The planning is always challanging , but the more planning that is invloved the more the lesson ill be successful.

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The most prevalent issues are access to real ''on the job experience for students. There are highly competitive placements available or work experience you can pay for but for the average student it's not accessible. I am also unaware of specific areas that struggle to recruit and don't have access to information about the specifics of many career areas. There's also a lack of aspiration amongst some students to put the effort required into attaining the grades for such careers. I try to overcome these issues through taking students out of school to learn from industry professionals or staff in museums, botanic gardens, zoos etc. but it's difficult to find the time to provide these experiences and complete courses. Regular informal links to careers happen in lessons but they're very anecdotal!

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The challenges most present in my daily professional activities (I'm a secondary and high school teacher of Science and Chemistry) are to help students to see scientists as real people, and that they are comfortable using tools of Science. I don't have a structured way of overcoming them.

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As teachers we need to work in team because nowdays no one of us can manage all the scientific knowledge embedded in our lives. So the best way to overcome that problem is to develop each other as teachers and then to teach our students as well as possible  what we know about science and scientists life and jobs.

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We  should have modest goals: Improve our lives and the others. In this way students can imagine new projects

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As a teacher of Maths, I have to face every day questions like: "Why do I have to study this? I'm not going to use this in my life". I try to give them examples of different STEM careers where they will need these kind of knowledges, these tools or this way of thinking (mostly computer and telecommunication areas because I am a Telecommunication Engineer and usually they like everything related to TIC),  But a lot of times it is difficult to engage them because my subject is very theoretical and I think it's easier in more practical subjects.

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As a teacher of Maths, I have to face every day questions like: "Why do I have to study this? I'm not going to use this in my life". I try to give them examples of different STEM careers where they will need these kind of knowledges, these tools or this way of thinking (mostly computer and telecommunication areas because I am a Telecommunication Engineer and usually they like everything related to TIC),  But a lot of times it is difficult to engage them because my subject is very theoretical and I think it's easier in more practical subjects.

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Mercedes, Spain

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Our students have lost motivation and we can give them back the motivation for STEM degrees.

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I think that the most important issue is to show the students the benefits from STEM career and STEM education in their lives. On that way students will like to learn STEM subjects by themselves and will raise others' students interest and motivation for STEM subject

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Arranging the field trips to show the students how science is related with our daily life. Industry does not have any intention to give education to students who come to learn science related with daily life. Plus, when we spend our hours for practical, theory, projects and field trips, it takes too much time for one unit. We can not do it for each units.

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This article made me realise I know so little about "real world" careers, and that in my school there is no mechanism for getting this kind of information (as in most schools probably).

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In my School I do not have any kind of support to fostering STEM Career motivations. I have to cope with the challenges exposed in the article by myself (by the way the analysis made in it is brilliant). I explain some strategies I use. Teacher Knowledge of Science Careers I do not worry in waste my time surfing by internet looking for I do not what. I read t the Spanish edition of Science to have a general idea about the state of the art in science and technology. This publications offer me an indirect but helpful vision about the current situations of sciences careers. Classroom Resources I red Science in School. This is a free publication with fantastic proposals to introduce cut edge scientific issues in your classes. Supporting Student Access to Science Professionals and Worksites. I invite former students that have pursuit STEM carriers to give talks to my students and as I work in a city with university a have the opportunity to enrol my students in activities lake visits to research centrers or workshops doing experimental work in university labs

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stem career giudance is lacking on the general level, as the teachers are not constantly up to date with the changing world. our science classes we try to invite external associations to motivate our kids without explicitly underlying the objective, we try to make our elementary school kids to participate to the events such as FLLjr that is very stimulation

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Challenges: strict curriculum, time restriction, teacher-centered teaching approach, not reference to real life applications and related jobs.
Solution: problem-based approach providing interesting stories, relevant to students' life, assigning students with the role of an expert/scientist that has to take action as to find a solution to the problem presented. The problem has to be related to the science topic.

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I think we, as teachers, don't have the real need to get the knowledge of the careers, but there must be an important link from the job market and universities with the school system.
Then, based on the information given to the students, we can give some
advice.

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I think the must important thing is the Teacher wants be a STEM Teacher.

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In my lessons I try to improve students' knowledge about the connections between the contents that are being worked and their applications. It is important that students see the role of STEM in modern society to motivate them to embrace a STEM career.

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The most present challenge in my daily professional activity is to connect theoretical concepts with real life.

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I agree that our students have lost motivation and we as teachers can guide them and give them back the motivation for STEM degrees.

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Everyday i use  real life examples to explain the importance of stem studies

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In school activities it is difficult to make students understand the need to transform the knowledge gained into real skills to be put into practice in everyday life. Therefore, I prefer lab activities pratical experiments, use of images and movies, web searches.

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The biggest challenge for me is how to relate theoretical concepts we teach in school with real life so that students keep motivated and make them think about what they are learning. I think it is important for them to find connections between what we teach and what they expect in a near future.

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Some important challenges present in my daily professional activities are:

How to connect theory at the real life

How to transmit to my students that the science knowledge is very useful day by day

I try to develop their critical thinking and increases their science literacy. Due to, in my teaching I use a lot of picture, movies, scientific experiments. I ask my students to conduct online searches on selected web sites and to use new web tools to explain what they have learned.

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I try to trasmit to my students that science kwoledge is very useful in our day a day

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The biggest challenge for me in my own enviroment is making teacher aware of the real necesity of changing their minds regarding the orientation of our students. In my opinion there isn't any career awareness nor any incoporation of any sort of approach. For me the biggest challenge is making aware the teacher that his job is not only to teach but to advise and guide proffesionaly the student. There are many professional paths that are ignored in a little, conservative and old city like mine, and students still have a XXth century mentality if not XIX th....

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A good collaboration between school and industry will also help guide students in a career or craft, being easier  for  them to make decisions.

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My biggest challenge is how to connect theory and real life and how to explain difficult process  on a easy and interesting way. Due to, in my teaching  I use lot of pictures, movies, interesting  (and  sometimes unexpected) examples.

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The main challenge is to make connections with the real world so that the students are always interested.
One useful way to do this is to use various didactic methods: laboratory, flipped classroom, reality tasks.

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My biggest challenge is how to connect knowledge and real life. We are trying to start my lessons with a problem that is in truly life. Sometimes it's not easy. However I enjoy it.

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The main problem is in poor curricula, lack of adequate work space and necessary work equipment, the classes are too large....
Students are not interested in the STEM area.....

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I consider that it is a challenge for us to connect what they are learning to the real life, so they see the concepts as something meaningful, that they can apply to a real-life situation

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In my daily professional activities are most present the challenges  "Teacher Knowledge of Science Careers". Day by day we learn and practice. We would like to have  "Supporting Student Access to Science Professionals and Worksites", but we haven't got it yet.

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My greatest challange as a maths and science teacher is to find and relate concepts with real life example that are appealing to young students. The planning is always challanging , but the more planning that is invloved the more the lesson ill be successful.

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I think that the biggest challenge for me as a science teacher is to be able to show to the students why they need to learn some subjects that they can't understand how are related with the studies they want to follow later on.

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Deficits in up-to-date knowledge of science career pathways and new and emerging science-related occupations are most present in my school activities. I've had time to participate to workshops and online courses after the completion of the third fellowship.

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I am a teacher in vocational training school so for me it's very important the 3rd point: "connect the dots". It's essential that students were be able to see all the posibilities not only in a classroom but also in the labour market. From my point of view, the methodology "learning by doing" is the best way to catch up this goal.

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During my lessons I try to stimulate student participation, to encourage their imagination and to make them increasingly autonomous and capable of applying the theoretical knowledge to the different situations that arise.

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I am a teacher in a primary school and my children are to 6 from 10 years old so they are very interesed in all subjects and very motivated to learn. So, I try to make connections between theory and practice, for better understanding. I think that "learning by doing" is the right methodology to make sure that students get close to STEM careers.

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In my daily activities I try to connect to my students with new discoveries and be conscience of the real life and the new challenges in the actual society.

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In my lessons I try all the time to encourage imagination, to show the children the link between the information that I offer and their application in a future possible career.

I introduce technology and games almost every lesson. For example, we have recently been small designers. We have made the design of a car, a toy or even a playground.

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One of the challenges is not having good career counsellers who can give more information on the STEM careers so as to open the students' mind as to the many possibilities.