Opening Schools to STEM Careers - Pedro_Nunes' Learning Diary by Pedro Nunes

Course Introduction - 'Before Dawn...'

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An Alhandra overview

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...Myself

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My name is Pedro. I'm a portuguese teacher, presently teaching Portuguese to 7th/9th grade students. Teaching is a tricky crafstsmanship, but kids make it worth it.

That's why I'm here.

My school

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EB 2,3 Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Module 1: STEM careers in schools and in the job market

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'Motus in Mobile'

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'Reviving What We Never Had'

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'What Exactly?...'

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'Offer / Demand'

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'... Analysing the evidence '

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' Challenging the evidence ...'

'The STEM skill gap'

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As far as we can tell, yes, there is such a shortage. Why would we be doing this MOOC, if that concern didn’t exist?...
Coming to the causes of the shortage, they might be multiple, but there’s one of them that strikes me the deepest: the way some governments systematically neglect their roles in intermediating between school, university and labor market.
I wouldn’t’ accept governments taking the place of students(/parents) choosing their formation paths; I don’t really think governments could ever mess with each university’s formation offer definition; I don’t even conceive a circumstance in which governments would interfere in employer’s processes of recruiting… But governments are the perfect partner to link all these players, in a functional network of common needs, shared objectives and joint efforts to upgrade societies.
In Portugal, we just knew that, this year, 40 university courses haven't received any student applications… This is obviously ridiculous and a good example of how school, university and labor market are speaking in totally different languages, but maybe this is no single case in Europe.
If governments are aware that STEM careers give youngsters good future prospects, they must engage themselves in introducing and attracting them to it. If governments get involved in introducing and attracting young people to STEM, they must make themselves sure that universities are equally focused in deploying that specific formation. If governments make all the possible efforts to help students’ STEM careers becoming real, they must encourage employers to modernize their own working procedures and routines, in order to exploit in this scientific knowledge in the best possible way.

'Counseling...'

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The Emerging Role ofScience Teachers in FacilitatingSTEM Career Awareness

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Portugal's Local Elections

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Alternative Realities...

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'Obstacles to career couseling'

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I can say that this paper sums up very well the main challenges in helping students to choose a career pathway in STEM. First of all, and naturally, the inevitable uncertainty about "tomorrow’s jobs" in a hyper speed-changing world… But also the absolute lack of organized information on STEM, provided to teachers/counselors; the lack of opportunities to research, digest and organize the existant information, simultaneously with teaching/counseling daily routines; the overwhelming distance between pure theoretical school counseling and the meaningful experience in real life contexts, that unfortunately don’t exist…
All these are severe obstacles to a proper, enlightening, motivating, future building help.

Module 2: 'STEM pathways'

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'Welcoming the Invisible'

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'STEM today'

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"Information sources..."

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'Evolution of STEM careers' – Alex Kingham, CA Technologies

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'Evolution of STEM Careers' – James Branam, CA Technologies

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'Future STEM jobs'

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First of all, if we have already focused our attention in the general lack of information about the issue, this one might be an absurd question altogether…
Nevertheless, I believe that some areas of society will always demand new breakthroughs from scientists and researchers: energy, systems' automation, communication, transportation, health, sustainability, entertainment, etc.

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'STEM Hard Skills'

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Science, technology, engineeringand mathematics (STEM) skills

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'Three, Two, One...'

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The Supply ofand Demand forHigh-Level STEM Skills

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ICT and Digital Skills – FCL Regio : Stress in Structures: A Collaborative Project for Two Schools in Catalonia

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'Future Now'

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ICT and Digital Skills – FCL Regio: collaborative project of coding between two schools in Sweden

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DESIGN THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE THATCONTRIBUTE DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF TOMORROWIN THE PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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'World in Convulsion...'

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STEM Soft Skills'

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Soft Skills for STEM careers Gabrielle Ferguson, CA Technologies

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'Maximum Efforts...'

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The 7 Most Important STEM Skills We Should Be Teaching Our Kids

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'...And Enters the Night'

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'STEM Skills'

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Building Leadership Talent ThroughPerformance Evaluation

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Module 3: 'Leading to STEM'

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Fundamentals of Educational Leadership

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'VISION'

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'Future' Ahead...

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'Burnin' Autumn'

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'Partition Table'

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'Pages...'

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