FE in STEM

Advice for Functional Skills Maths & English(2 replies)

Created on 24th February 2012 14:06 by nigel.edwards

The following is posted on behalf of Robbie Best:

 

I met many of you at the recent Organisational STEM Leadership Development Day in York. I was impressed by the amount of knowledge displayed by the various practitioners and to that end wondered if any of you could offer any advice? Do any of you have any preference to which exam board to use for Functional Skills English and Maths tests? Do you find any better than the others?

 

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jonalderson replied 51 days ago :

Hi

I will ask our functional skills staff and get back to you.

Regards

jon

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Recent Biotechnology CPD event(4 replies)

Created on 13th February 2012 10:01 by Elaine

Hi

We hosted a CPD event in collaboration with the Eastern Science Learning Centre last Friday and the activities related to many aspects of the real world including medicine (using urease instead of conventional treatment for ulcers) and pollen for forensics.  The feedback was excellent and the participants could see how they could link all the activities into their teaching. Not just biology staff were present and they could see how it related to their particuar

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jonalderson replied 20 days ago :

Hi Elaine

In regards to the biotechnology CPD event what was the pollen for forensics activity?

jon

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STEM Conference North East(1 reply)

Created on 13th February 2012 09:29 by Neil Godfrey

Regional STEM Advisors. The North East regional STEM conference is to be held on 23rd March 2012 in the city of Sunderland  We are advertising regionally but of course you are all welcome. Please contact me if you require further details

Also, how are bookings going for your own regional conferences

Thanks

Neil

Elaine replied 94 days ago :

HI Neil and other STEM advisors

Thanks for the invite - the Eastern Region Confrerence is on 21 February at GlaxoSmithKline in Stevenage.  Bookings were slow at eh start but we are getting the numbers now  - not too late for any one to book!

 

Elaine

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STEM Conference North East(0 replies)

Created on 13th February 2012 09:29 by Neil Godfrey

Regional STEM Advisors. The North East regional STEM conference is to be held on 23rd March 2012 in the city of Sunderland  We are advertising regionally but of course you are all welcome. Please contact me if you require further details

Also, how are bookings going for your own regional conferences

Thanks

Neil

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Forensic Science Resources(1 reply)

Created on 10th February 2012 16:54 by Dave Martin

Hi All,

Last summer we ran a Forensic Science day - How to use a crime scene to teach practical forensic science at levels 2 & 3.

The resources the course leaders created are available from the link below:

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/community/groups/51/fe-in-stem/viewresource/31

HelenR replied 96 days ago :

Hello Dave,

I can't access these resources on that link. Is it possible to add the files to this discussion? If you can't do this can you perhaps email them to myself or to Nigel Edwards and we will upload them for you.

 

Thanks,

Helen

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BloodhoundSSC(0 replies)

Created on 10th February 2012 16:43 by Tim Sorensen

Recently worked with BloodhoundSSC education team at primary school event and now booked for South East STEM Conference on 15th March at East Malling Conference Centre. Brilliant website, video content and resources. You can't put a 1000mph car in a wind tunnel - some very interesting and leading edge modelling around wind turbulence and 'hot spots'! 

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North West Engineering Mathematics Network Tues 7th Feb(1 reply)

Created on 10th February 2012 16:24 by heatheraspinwall

Thanks to all of you who attended the Engineering Mathematics Network on Tuesday 7th Feb at Manchester University. The discussions on the day were really useful especially your wish list for the next network. We agreed to share useful websites so here's the document from your packs with useful websites that I promised to share electronically to start you off please share any others that you have come across, or any more thoughts about what you want from them the next network.

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jonalderson replied 51 days ago :

Hi Heather,

We had a similar event at our STEM conference which involved mathematics educators working together with engineering educators. Such that the event gave mathematics teachers the opportunity to teach maths in an engineering context while the engineers developed their teaching and learning skills in mathematics.

jon

 

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Organisational STEM Leadership Days(0 replies)

Created on 09th February 2012 16:29 by nigel.edwards

If you missed the recent Organisational STEM Leadership Development Days, have a look at the presentations (http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/community/groups/51/fe-in-stem/viewresource/30) from the events so that you can see the ideas and action plans explored. Each event brought together practitioners to plan how to improve STEM provision across their organisation and so help equip learners with invaluable skills for employment in the current challenging economy.
Experts

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Equipping New Science Labs(3 replies)

Created on 03rd February 2012 11:21 by nigel.edwards

On behalf of Heather Aspinwall at Wirral Met College

Here at Wirral Met we are about to move to one site and will be refurbishing  our existing science labs and equipping new ones. I know a number of my colleagues in colleges in the North West are going through similar transitions. I also know that some of you out there have already got brand new labs. This is an appeal for help, what are your tips, pitfalls to avoid, sources of help, fascinating stories….. about

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Elaine replied 80 days ago :

Hi Heather

My physics lab is merging with a materials lab in one building and all of the rest of science is moving into new labs in another. 

 

We have gone for central 'pods' for physics and the applied science lab and linear benches - with gaps down the middle - for the other chemistry and biology/microbiology. 

 

For physics we had a reasonable amount of time to plan what was need needed and what equipment needed to be on benches but for the others it had to be done very quickly.  In both cases by getting staff together to say what they would like - but to be realistic in terms of money - has resulted in labs that everyone seems pleased about.  We asked for storage to mathc what we had - but we are using the opportunity to dispose of anything that looks out of date - last time we did this a company picked it up for the third world. 

 

However we do not move in to physics until September and the rest the following year so we shall see! 

 

Happy to share teh plans with you.

 

Elaine

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GeoGebra mathematics software(1 reply)

Created on 25th January 2012 11:30 by annecarlill

In anticipation of the Yorks & Humbs STEM Maths network meeting, on 1st February at Doncaster College, I have loaded the 80-page introductory manual for GeoGebra 4.0 which is the latest version of the internationally acclaimed free-to-use geometry, algebra, graphing and spreadsheet program. We are planning to whet the attendees appetite for learning more about this brilliant software by having a session using the interactive whiteboard with GeoGebra.

annecarlill replied 112 days ago :

I didn't tell you where I'd put it!!

It's in Group files. See the tab at the top of this group page.

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Science Resources - Chemistry(5 replies)

Created on 08th December 2011 12:14 by shill

Excellent chemistry resources to support A-level by Knockhardy. These include notes and powerpoint presentations. Visit the following website; www.knockhardy.org.uk/

Dave Martin replied 96 days ago :

Hi Jon,

That would be wonderful - many thanks,

Dave

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Gender in Engineering(4 replies)

Created on 05th December 2011 09:30 by kenfielding

Stylli Charalampous is coming up to North Lindsey next Monday to talk about Gender in relation to Engineering.  It is a morning workshop and there is room for additional people.  If you fancy coming, please contact and I will send you all the details.

Also we are visiting Hitec Electronic Products on Tuesday 13 December.  Hitec are a small innovative business who, amongst other things, make products from STEALTH materials.  Facinating place.  Good for

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Neil Godfrey replied 159 days ago :

Ken

I think it would be a great idea if he could visit us in the North east with the same sort of thing but i would like some feedback on how it goes and if it would be a valuable exercise for us

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NCETM online discussion forums.(4 replies)

Created on 02nd December 2011 12:48 by nigel.edwards

The National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM) held its first online seminar about Calculation last night.  The online seminars are synchronous – all those attending (and there is a waiting list for these now), log on at a certain time and then we can have live discussions, share presentations, move into small group discussions in online breakout rooms and such like.

You can find out more about this and signup to future seminars from the

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heatheraspinwall replied 160 days ago :

Hi all

Is there a plan to repeat the online seminar on Calculation? - teaching calculation is a big issue with maths teachers in FE - we are often trying to adress longstanding misconceptions about calculation with learners at all levels. We were talking about this at the North West Mathematics Network yesterday. One of things we plan to do at the next network is look at the resources from the NCETM Microsite linked to the online discussion. The microsite is "Teaching Calculation: A guide to some key resources "

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/34989

Heather

 

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Mathematics Resources(8 replies)

Created on 27th November 2011 20:17 by nigel.edwards

Having only recently discovered the resources available through the STEM eLibrary, I was surprised to see how extensive the collection was.  The problem with this is as with all internet based resources is that it becomes very hard to filter what is useful to me and then to organise the useful resources in any way. 
The STEM site gives you the ability to create your own lists of resources which can be then accessed directly from your individual dashboard.  This allows

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jonalderson replied 156 days ago :

Hi Heather,

I agree the NCETM portal is great and we always demonstrate the portal to delegates at our maths CPD events. The departmental workshops should sound good may have to use them at our next maths meeting in February.

jon

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Science Resources(9 replies)

Created on 27th November 2011 20:13 by nigel.edwards

Having only recently discovered the resources available through the STEM eLibrary, I was surprised to see how extensive the collection was.  The problem with this is as with all internet based resources is that it becomes very hard to filter what is useful to me and then to organise the useful resources in any way. 
The STEM site gives you the ability to create your own lists of resources which can be then accessed directly from your individual dashboard.  This allows

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jonalderson replied 113 days ago :

I will be teaching biofuels in A-level Chemistry in the next few weeks and found this useful resource to aid a debate about biofuels.

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/share/218/take-a-look-at-these-links/e0cc8b64

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Engineering Resources(14 replies)

Created on 27th November 2011 20:07 by nigel.edwards

Having only recently discovered the resources available through the STEM eLibrary, I was surprised to see how extensive the collection was.  The problem with this is as with all internet based resources is that it becomes very hard to filter what is useful to me and then to organise the useful resources in any way. 
The STEM site gives you the ability to create your own lists of resources which can be then accessed directly from your individual dashboard.  This allows

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jonalderson replied 93 days ago :

  Hi Helen,

 Thanks for the reply. Yes,  the STEM planner that was demonstrated at York. Great that the STEM planner for FE is nearly ready but I also thought that there is a STEM planner which was  aimed at secondary schools.  Do you know whereabouts the latter is located?

thanks

jon

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