https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08 en-us 2017-04-24 19:43:45 UTC 2017-04-25 00:25:51 UTC hello@padlet.com luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167959089 Hello, I am Luminita, an Elementary School Teacher. I teach Math and Sciences. I would like to improve my strategies and my work. This course is a good opportunity.     ]]> 2017-04-24 19:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167959089 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167964779 Recruitment difficulties

• young graduates are not prepared for the skills currently on demand
• structural economic shifts (these shifts have made the skills of individuals insufficient or irrelevant for the demands of the current markets). 

]]> 2017-04-24 20:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167964779 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167967176 Vocabulary
Knowledge intensive sectors are those that heavily rely on professional knowledge. The employment structures of these sectors require workers with a high level of scientific and technological knowledge.
Demographic crisis in European population is expected to happen as fertility rates in Europe decline and life expectancy increases, resulting in an ageing population.
The potential skills shortage can be due to different reasons:

1.  A shortage of skills may appear in knowledge intensive sectors*, given that the demand for new skills might be bigger than the existing supply (during a specific period).
2.  Demographic changes can also be a cause of (current and/or anticipated) skill shortage
3.    A restructuring of specific sectors (accentuated by the economic crisis) might also lead to simultaneous existence of unemployment and skill shortages for specific skills in an economy

]]> 2017-04-24 20:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167967176 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167968977 Vocabulary
Recruitment/vacancy bottleneck: A situation where a given vacancy (posted in a recent time period) is hard to fill by employers.
Skills shortage: A situation where the demand for a particular type of skill exceeds the available supply of that skill at the market-clearing rate of pay.

Possible scenarios where it might seem that there is a lack of STEM skills when this might not be the case:
- Information friction: Employers might be struggling to locate the right skills in the labor market because they are facing a problem of incomplete information.
- Geographical barriers: An unbalanced concentration of jobs and skills in the economy might look like a general lack of STEM skills when the shortages might just be at local or regional level.
- Recruitment processes: Some hiring systems are based on computer software that automatically selects candidates that match very specific job criteria (based on a word selection). These hiring systems might reject candidates that would have enough potential to fill in the vacancies]]> 2017-04-24 20:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167968977 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167973937 2017-04-24 21:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167973937 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167973940 The Emerging Role of Science Teachers in Facilitating STEM Career Awareness” (Cohen & Patterson, 2012), the author outlines four cognitive-behaviour dimensions as the pillars of career development:

1. Awareness (students are aware and know the variety of STEM careers available),
2. Relevance (they see the connection between the subject they are studying and day to day life),
3. Engagement (students show direct interest and motivation to interact with the subject matter),
4. Self-efficacy (students are comfortable with using tools of science). 

]]> 2017-04-24 21:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167973940 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167974151 Teaching strategies

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.

]]> 2017-04-24 21:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167974151 luminita https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167975460 The Fourth Industrial Revolution, challenges and opportunities: increased growth, prosperity and efficiency, but at the same time, a very high risk of inequality, and a shift in the labor market that a large part of the population may not be able to keep up with.

Evolution of STEM professions
-education is one of the most important pillars
-teachers need to be prepared to train pupils for the future of the workforce
A key idea is that it is critical for pupils to pursue higher education. 
If technology will eventually become biologically embedded in our lives, then labor skills will slowly become obsolete resulting in the “low-skill/low-pay” and “high-skill/high-pay” concept.

Jobs of the future

Current STEM industries and professions
In EU, STEM fields include natural sciences (i.e. physics, biology or chemistry), mathematics, engineering, architecture and computing (but other fields such as medicine or social sciences tend not to be included).]]> 2017-04-24 21:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/luminita/k2wpyen7ke08/wish/167975460