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I think it would be interesting for the students. These meetings should be in any school. I'm thinking of doing something like that in school.

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Post event activities - Is important because you can evaluate the results of the event and take conclusions.

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Through the padlet below tell us (in your opinion) which of the activities above is more suited to your students and why do you think so.

My students are in the 6th grade, so they are too small to attend these events. But I will try in the 8th grade to participate in the OPEN DAY DAY - LICEE to see what opportunities they have for the future.

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(Activity 1: Share in the padlet below any science fairs that are currently taking place in your country. Have you participated? What did you liked the most?)

I do not have such opportunities to participate in a scientific festival. My city is small and the distance to the capital where such events happen is high, I would have liked to be able to take the students to such an aveniment. It is about to come to us THE PLANET SCHOOL, and there my students will have the opportunity to see planets and stars.

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Which do you think is one benefit and one disadvantage of such an internship?

And the students of the Technical High School in Buzau, Romania, have the opportunity to participate in these training sessions. As an advantage, they include the opportunity to see what this career requires, the meeting with other high school students from other countries, the opportunity to engage in higher education due to this training abroad. As disadvantages, the biggest thing I think is that good students will want to go abroad because they pay much better than in Romania.

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Are there any training opportunities or companies providing programs in your country, from which your students can benefit?

There is a Technical High School that has protocols with several profile companies. These companies facilitate the students' practice in them and then offer them employment opportunities.

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Activity: [Padlet] After you have read these steps to connect with your local community, share with us what are some ways in which you can connect with the business community in your town or city: what professionals can you bring to your school and how can you involve them?

I try to show them as many different things as MATEMATICS. Whenever possible, I bring them to the history museum in our city, to theater, to film, to socialize and see another side of life.

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Based on the description above, where do you think your students are placed? What is their level of access and desire for employability? What are some actions you can take to improve the situation?

My students most of them know what they want to do (what career they want). What we have to do, teachers and parents, of course, is to show them the good way, more opportunities, which he, the student, to choose. I always tell my students: it does not go to that high school, that high school section just because your parents want to be ....., you have to think that the job is right for you, and especially, to like it You do. Here is the answer. The student has to choose something he likes to go to work with.

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I am a teacher of mathematics and this year I am also a class teacher in the 6th grade. I have parents and more in career prospects, but I also have many unemployed or unemployed parents and no income. The difference in mentality between the two categories of parents is immediately observed. We also need to keep in mind the child's pleasure of working in math, physics, when talking about the opportunity to embark on a STEm career. Those who want will go to these careers.

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For conducting lessons, I could bring a lot of guests: teachers, doctors, policemen, computer scientists, and this to explain to the students that each of these careers is involved.

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Can you identify a national STEM role model of your country who could be suited to discuss with your students about STEM careers? Write how this person fits with what you’ve learned in this activity and share with us at least one idea about how you will integrate him/her in a lesson with your students.
If I could, I would invite him, Dumitru Radu Prunariu, a great novel that honors the country ,to talk about astronaut life and how  is on the Moon. I'm sure my students would be fascinated by the true stories told by our astronaut, and they would be more open to this job, would like to know more. The power of the example is always a good weapon to fulfill your goal.

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Read pages 20-28 from the study presented above and reflect in the Padlet: Which roles do you use actively, which do you use less and why? Are there any roles you are not doing but want to do? Name at least one you would like to exercise more.
I usually use the Career Information role, pastoral support role
I would like to use delivering CEL role.

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In this paddle I found countless resources to promote class equality between boys and girls, between men and women. Thank you very much.

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Share who is your favorite female scientist of all time and tell us why
Another famous Romanian was Maria Cuţarida-Crătunescu. She was the first female doctor in Romania, a doctor in medicine, she founded the Maternal Society, which aims at caring for children and organized the first factory crèche. He was born in 1857 in Călăraşi, being the descendant of the famous doctor Carol Davila. She studied medicine at Montpellier and Paris, her outstanding results being highly publicized.

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In the padlet, pick one of the tips mentioned in the info sheet “Your guide to ensure gender equality in the (STEM) classroom”. Apply it with your students and (afterwards) tell us your experience.
At all my classes, do not make any difference between my students. I work in mixed groups, boys and girls, and I always teach them to work together and to help each other, regardless of gender. I will also never use separate groups of boys and girls, it is not normal to make this difference between them.

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In the padlet, discuss about “the gender gap in STEM” in your country. Are your female students interested in STEM areas? Are there many women in research careers? Share your insight!
In Romania we have no such differences. There are a lot of women who have STEM careers, and also a lot of female students want to move on to a Stem career, and I advise many of them to do it.

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I'm using in class 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10.
I'll use 2.3 and 9.

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1. Choose a strategy from above 2. Choose a career material/activity/tool 3. Write in the Padlet below how you would combine these two in a lesson (add also any relevant links, information, etc.)
At the conducting classes, we have special lessons where we have invited parents and specialists who explain to the students what their successful career is.

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Explain which of the matchmaking tools presented is most interesting and the reasons for it. Do you have any such tools in your country? Post your links in the padlet!
I did not know about these tools. I intend to explore them in detail and use them in class.

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Share your thoughts on pedagogical approaches or classroom tools you can use in the classroom to promote STEM or soft skills. Which one is the best one? What tools are you using? Share your experiences, success stories and challenges!
In class, I use Power Point, Geogebra, Intuitext for geometry software, Prezi presentations.

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Share which 3 soft skills do you think are the most important within STEM fields and explain, in your own words, how you would address them in the classroom.
I would say that the three most important STEM competencies are: tight communication with students, efficient use of time in favor of the student and responsibility, the desire to make you understood and to make your students like the subject (in my case , math). In class, we use new methods of teaching - learning - assessment, brainstorming, working on groups, working on projects, so as to inspire students' desire and pleasure to discover mathematics, to work with mathematics.

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Answer the following questions through this padlet. 1) Are you using technology in the classroom? 2) How would you develop digital skills in the classroom?
Of course I use technology in my math classes. Not as often as I'd like, but I use it. Students are much more open when teaching with PPT or when they include exciting games in lessons. I try to use them as much as possible to bring the desire and the pleasure to learn mathematics.

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Use this padlet to answer the following questions: 1) In your opinion, which is the best definition of STEM skills and why? 2) Provide at least one example of non-STEM professions that use STEM skills.
In my opinion, STEM skills are those skills that help us use technology for our benefit at work and at home every day.
As an example of a job where STEM skills are used, I could recall journalism, lawyers, and teachers of any matter.

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The learning objectives of Module 3 are:

1. Become familiarized with a set of STEM hard skills on demand;

2. Become familiarized with soft/transversal skills needed across all sectors/industries.

3. Explore various tools for matching skills with career pathways.

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What are other sources do you use to document yourself about STEM jobs? Share your answers here.
I am very documenting from the Internet, but also from scientific treatises, specialized books, pedagogy books and the methodology of teaching mathematics.

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The demand for STEM careers in specific fields can vary between geographical regions. Use the padlet to let us know:  What do you think are the most highly looked after career paths in your regions? Reflect: what qualifications would the applicants need to secure those jobs?
In my region (Buzau) most activities are industrial, agricultural and tourism. Of course, medical careers and computer scientists are also demanding.

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What do you think are some of the future STEM jobs we should start preparing for? Share your thoughts here
I strongly believe that STEM education should start from primary school when pupils are the most curious and learn very quickly. But for that we need good infrastructure, not computers out of reach. The future will surely mean STEM careers, technology, innovation.

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If machines will continue to take over a large part of our jobs, what do you think are the skills and activities that humans need to focus on in order to continue having relevant and fulfilling careers?
I am convinced that the innovations and qualities of STEM careers will be in great demand. We can not and can not do anything without computer science, innovation and foreign languages - English. We should focus our attention in this direction: computer science, innovation, so that we can inspire students' desire and pleasure to learn, very important being university courses.

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Watch The Fourth Industrial Revolution video: Artificial intelligence, integrated energy supply chains, neuro-technological brain enhancements, genome modification… Can you name other advancements you think this revolution will entail? How do you think it will affect your everyday life?

I believe that the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings many benefits in all areas: education, medicine, defense, making our lives feel these opportunities positively. I firmly believe that this Industrial Revolution will be able to use it for our benefit and our students every day. We just need to be open to the new and want to use these challenges and opportunities.

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The learning objectives of Module 2 are:

1. Understand which are the currently relevant STEM industries and what is the spectrum of jobs available in each of them;

2. Explore and learn about different career pathways available to reach those careers;

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Name which of those challenges are most present in your daily professional activities and how do you overcome them.

I am a teacher of mathematics at a secondary school in Buzau County, not far from the city of Buzau. Our problems on students' career orientation are: many students come from families with poor financial power, so many do not continue their studies. Another problem is that, although we are close to town, the school does not have the physical or chemical laboratories, so we do experiments, but theory and problems in these areas. Of course the student needs to observe experiments, to understand what is happening. We see on the Internet, looking for lessons that include experiments and so they have contact with everyday life. Another problem is that we do not have career counselors regarding these consultations we make, principals, students and their parents taking into account the results of competitions, near the STEM subjects.

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The report also goes on outlining four teaching strategies, which foster STEM careers awareness, derived from a series of interviews with science teachers:

1. Incorporate both formal and informal approaches: constantly bring career awareness in your activities and do not keep it as a separate unit.

2. Help students see scientists as real people: students may have difficulty imagining themselves as scientists because they cannot see that scientists have a normal life, just like them. They have hobbies, families and various interests.

3. Connect the dots: it is not enough to just expose students to career information, the teacher also has to directly connect career information with whatever the student is learning at that moment. This can refer to making clear connections to the real-life use of subjects, to giving examples of how it connects to jobs of scientists. The student will not be always capable of making these connections themselves, and you will have to do that for him.

4. Embed reflection: To make sure that information sticks with students, and embeds reflection to drive a deeper understanding. Otherwise, a lot of the information can be lost over time if reflection is not used to “glue” it.

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Use the padlet below to answer the following questions: 1) Do you think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe? 2) If so, which is the main reason for that? 3) If not, why are employers finding difficulties to employ workers?

I think here in Romania, so in Europe, is a lack of STEM skills. In our programs for mathematics, physics, chemistry are very thick, we teachers actually running through matter without being able to make good feed - back of the concepts taught. put still based on theory and not practice, as it should.

The faculty does not serve nothing matters graduate, so he must commit without having made contact with what his job entails. On the other hand, most employers want workers with minimal experience, which is not a graduate. But the company no longer wants or those older so that engineers, foremen with experience are hired not because they have more than 45 years.

Too bad we have the best mathematicians and computer scientists with outstanding results in international Olympiads and competitions, including NASA. We do not know how to appreciate them, so they decide to leave Romania in other countries where they pay much better and recognized their merits.

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ACTIVITY 1 - Through the padlet below, describe why (and if) for you, as a teacher, STEM education is essential in our current society.

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ACTIVITY 1 - Through the padlet below, describe why (and if) for you, as a teacher, STEM education is essential in our current society.

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I am a teacher of mathematics at a secondary school and I'm tutors to grade 6 - to and working with children for 15 years. I not see myself doing anything else. My mission is to be a math teacher.
With this course, I want to be aware of new methods that can be used in mathematics to be able to do my job as a teacher as well. I was returning students to mathematics and mathematics-based careers, I can feel them with me the beauty of mathematics, the beauty of STEM.

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The learning objectives of Module 1 are:

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The learning objectives of Module 1 are:

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1. Understand the relevance of STEM studies for students and society;

2. Understand the importance of STEM career in the job market;

3. Understand the importance of integrating STEM career guidance in lessons, curriculum and what are the benefits for their students.

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While the number of graduates with science and technology qualifications keeps falling, recent reports estimate the need for a high number of scientists and researchers within Europe. Watch the video below to further explore and understand the difficulties European economies are facing in order to recruit the next generation of scientists.

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Hy. My name is Veronica and I'm from Romania, the most beautiful country. I'm math teacher for 15 years in a secondary school. My school is at 15 km from Buzau City, a village called Scurtesti.

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Hy. My name is Veronica and I'm from Romania, the most beautiful country. I'm math teacher for 15 years in a secondary school. My school is at 15 km from Buzau City, a village called Scurtesti.