During the two day conference, I had big picture and classroom level takeaways.
Big Picture:
- There is no STEM pipeline, but rather individual STEM castles with moats around each.
- Education should help bring out students' innate strengths.
- Today's students are more risk averse.
- Host a school-wide Innovation Week.
- Use 6 Good Life Habitats for the school's character traits.
- No one is exempt from having a brilliant mind.
- Grit/gumption - resilience, perseverance, determination, resourcefulness
- Grow other students and teachers.
- How do you define educational excellence?
- Capacities to be independent
- Value the diversity of students
- Different talents (human potential)
- Different motivations (where does the passion come from)
- Different opportunities
- Do you provide different opportunities, spend time nurturing, teach or coach?
- We need the different passions in our communities.
- Find a way to help students see themselves in STEM careers and doing it.
Classroom Level:
- Consider long-term projects across grade levels.
- Kerbal Space Program and Learning Blade are good ways to integrate gaming and learning.
- Capacities to build in students - communication, teaming, and collaboration.
- Implement dense instructional units
- standards
- technology
- problem-based learning (Buck Institute for resources)
- Assess novelty/creativity, efficiency, and accuracy of engineered solutions, not just whether or not it works.
- Have expert guest speakers as hook at the beginning of projects or as resources throughout the project (virtually or in-person).
- How do I come across to my students?
- Be a self advocate.
- Take risks as a professional.
2017 Global MindED Conference - June 22-23
Scholarship applications for educators
http://www.globalminded.org/
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