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Action Plan Guidelines
This is your working document
What do you want to accomplish
Who is going to do what
When is it going to get done
What resources did you see this week that you’d like to adapt for use
What resources do you need for your plan
Tell us what helped you most, what is missing, and what needs improvement
As you work, post your Action Plan on the Ed Academy Community so that others mayobserve your work (www.inteledacademy.org)
Post your final presentation to the Community on a USB Memory Stick
Please Title and name the file, identifying your location
Do not write or save over the template, keep it for later reference
A report out of accomplishments is due Nov. 15
Work with your Intel Education Manager to submit
Note: sample completed Action Plans from 2011 are on the Intel website:http://www.intel.com/education/isef/isef/overview.htm
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Main considerations
•INVOLVE NEW AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR EXTERNALSOURCES OF ESPECIALIZED TECHNICAL ASSISTENCE.
•PROMOTE QUALITY OF SCIENCE FAIRS AT THE REGIONAL LEVELAND NATIONAL LEVEL.
•MOTIVATION FOR SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH.
•PROMOTE BI NATIONAL FAIRS WITH LAR COUNTRIES.
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High Level Goals
•Short term goals
–Organize teacher training program on research skills (“Students asScientists)
–Improve project evaluation through training programs for judges
–Establish a bank of mentors to assist students in creating scienceprojects
–Start a program to follow up past winners of the National Sience andTechnology Fair
–Continuously improve local science fairs to international standards
–Organize follow-up processes of different science fair-related activities
–Strengthen local networks to improve organization of science fairs
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High Level Goals
•Long term goals (3-5 years)
–Increase number of students participating in science fairs by 20%within 3 years
–Incorporate teacher training program on research skills in the Ministryof Education’s National Teacher Training Program
–Guarantee participation of all educational levels in science fairs(preschool to high school)
–Incorporate the National Science and Technology Fair in regionaleducation plans and motivating, planning its growth
–Increase number of hours of teaching science in the education system
–Strengthen national education policies that seek to improve sciencecourses in schools
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Objectives
•Science and Technology to be universal in the education Peruviansystem.
•Strengthen at an institutional level the MOE and the Center forTechnology and Innovation “CONCYTEC”.
•In Peru, the education is decentralized in every region, so one ofthe objectives is to incorporate tools to integrate the regions andpromote social inclusion through science.
•Search for expert coaching in STEM topics, promotingmethodology and inquiry in education.
•Adopt a systemic curriculum changes ; train MOE officials in Intelprograms at the high school level. Teachers trained in ProjectBased Learning (or Inquiry research).
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Objectives
•Student participation in science fairs will increase 20% within next threeyears .
•Promote teacher training program based on an inquired approached.
•Systemic changes in training programs: Include in teacher training plans,programs or activities that promote scientific investigation in schools.
•Institutionalize science fairs and maintain an investment budget for thedevelopment and relevant training of science fairs.
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Action Plan – Steps to MeetYour Goals and Objectives
Action
Measure success?
Who’s Responsible?
Deadline?
Organize a PeruvianEducators Academy
Develop the plan of the Edsacademy and scope of workand topics.
Concytec
Oct 2012
Train judges and reinforcemethodology ininvestigation
Implementation of aworkshop in judgingtechniques.
Concytec
Sept 2012
Promote inquired basedapproach as a tool forteaching Science.
Include in educationalcurricula the inquiryapproach.
MOE
Dec 2012
Promote a teachers sciencenetwork or onlinecommunity of scienceteachers with “local flavor”.
Start with 24 specialist fromeach region and disseminatethrough UGEL ( localeducational unity of gestion)
MOE – Secondaryeducation
Dec . 2013
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Action Plan– Steps to Meet YourGoals and Objectives
Action
Measure success?
Who’s Responsible?
Deadline?
Organize national trainingprograms to improve thequality of projects
5 regional training programs
Reach 300 teachers
CONCYTEC (Scienceand TechnologyNational Council)
Oct 2012
Improve Project evaluation
Creation of NationalCommission of Judges
Training course for judges
Judging manual
CONCYTEC (Scienceand TechnologyNational Council)
Jul-Aug2012
Establish a database ofresearchers to help mentorstudents
30 research mentors
CONCYTEC (Scienceand TechnologyNational Council)
Sept 2012
Follow up of students whoparticipated in past sciencefair projects
Database of 50 studentwinners of National Scienceand Technology Fair
CONCYTEC (Scienceand TechnologyNational Council)
Aug 2012
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As a result of your participation in the 2012 EducatorAcademy, reflect on your experience
Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from theEducator Academy
•The importance of science and technology for the development ofcommunities.
•The use of the scientific method as a means to know our reality.
•Promote research through science activities for young people.
•Education based on research projects.
•Science needs to be researched and practiced.
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•Central government must participate in the curricula elaboration and enforcea scientific knowledge.
•Private sector should have an active rol in science education and promoteSTEM.
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Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team?
•Shelley Shott, Oregon – USA, Intel materials and tools for investigation.
•Guillermo Fernandez – Mexico, Strengtening the pedagogical practice, basedon inquiry in education.
•Sergei Mosyakin - Ukraine, The Scientific method as the master key. Verydidactic in his explanation about research.
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What types of Shop Talks were missing?
•The focus is the child or the proyect and/or metodology.
•How to organize a succesfull science fairs.
•More LAR examples in the workshop.
•How to cope with science in life.
•Education beyond public sector initiatives.
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