Deși numărul absolvenților cu calificări științifice și tehnologice continuă să scadă, rapoartele recente estimează necesitatea unui număr mare de oameni de știință și cercetători din Europa. 
videoclip : dificultățile cu care se confruntă economiile europene pentru a recruta următoarea generație de oameni de știință.

• https://youtu.be/sXPlHBTtT8M
• Is there a STEM skills shortage in Europe? Analysing the evidence

• Kahoot is a free game-based learning platform that helps educators create a collection of questions on specific topics while creating a game-like learning environment. Through this platform, you can create quizzes, discussion and surveys about any topic of your choice.
• Classflow is cloud-based platform that allows teachers to create interactive lessons in a single place, while (at the same time) pulling in resources from anywhere.
• PhET simulations are free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. These are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded from any computer. PhET is designed to encourage scientific inquiry and to provide interactivity among students.

• http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/documents/2352026/0/STEM+Careers+MOOC-Module3-Tools.pdf/91bd0f07-e905-4a0a-a871-4ba197f1e02d

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, embed 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.  

• Victor-waterclear : 

• de retinut .... ce folosesc ceilalti ! 

•  The Emerging Role of Science Teachers in Facilitating STEM Career Awareness (Cohen & Patterson, 2012) study.
• Citizen Science for STEM careers – Jose Vinas, Scientix Ambassador
• https://youtu.be/RrFmolHEd-g

1. Utilize career materials in science texts/journals/articles: consult these sources and extract/incorporate articles or supplemental readings in your lessons.​​​​​​
2. Integrate experiential activities in the classroom: role-playing or designing research posters.
3. Incorporate authentic research: give students the opportunity to participate in real research projects.​​​​​​​
4. Invite guest speakers: ask speakers from a variety of careers to talk to your students, to present their educational and career pathway. Invite also parents engaged in STEM fields to speak.​​​​​​​#
5. Research science careers / map out career paths: assign homework where students have to research various careers, support students in building resumes or to analyze their skills.​​​​​​​
6. Support inclusion of science careers in school career fairs.​​​​​​​
7. Weave career information informally into lessons: try to frame or open your lessons with career information, or as you work throughout a particular chapter or unit, make sure you point out career aspects where relevant.​​​​​​​
8. Share personal experiences: share your own experience of working in STEM fields, participate in professional development opportunities and share also your own educational and career pathway.​​​​​​​
9. Expose students to worksites and outside opportunities: take students on visits to various STEM centers (companies, research centers, etc.), prepare them before, seek funding and see how you can bridge the education-industry gap for your students.​​​​​​​
10. Be a mentor/advocate.

Strategies for Educators to Support Females in STEM

• Stemettes

• Hypathia  

• Mind the Gap

•  sfaturi !- modele !

• parinti - incurajati-va copii sa-si doreasca o cariera STEM ! 
• A message from a physicist to parents - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Some guidelines to have in mind when working with parents:
  1. Tackle gender-stereotypes with parents. Make sure they encourage girls and boys equally and, when possible, challenge any possible stereotypes they may be harbouring. 
  2. Help parents see their children’s experiments and curiosity as a natural, scientist-attitude. Encourage them to be tolerant and welcoming in that curiosity, and to let their children explore, regardless of the mess they may be making at home: noise, breaking, pulling apart things. 
  3. Facilitate the involvement of parents in STEM activities with their children. Inform them of activities they can do together with their children, events where they can participate together and activities they can put in practice at home to foster their children’s interests in STEM. 
  4. Financial constraints in a household can be an impediment for parents to expose their children to science opportunities – it a lot of cases, it will be up to you as a teacher to make extra steps to inform students and give them extra guidance for these opportunities.  
  5. Finally, remember to practice what you preach. If parents do not see you putting into practice what you tell them to do, they will not be convinced! 

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(2) construirea competențelor adecvate și 
(3) Găsirea unui loc de muncă potrivit. 
În ansamblu, raportul menționează că elevii se confruntă cu mari costuri financiare pentru a-și urma opțiunile de învățământ superior. De asemenea, subliniază faptul că nu învață suficiente competențe soft în școli (sau nu au competențe soft corecte) și că nu dispun de informații de sprijin și de carieră în tranziția la locul de muncă.
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