Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 1 AAAS/SSE STEM Volunteer Program Don Rea
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 2 AAAS/SSE STEM Volunteer Program Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Led by Senior Scientists and Engineers (SSE)
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 3 Objectives Foster STEM literacy for all students Prepare students for STEM careers
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 4 Background Started in 2004 in Montgomery County, MD with 8 volunteers In school year , there are 175 volunteers in 9 school districts in Maryland, Virginia, and DC
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 5 Overview STEM professionals assist K-12 STEM teachers in their classrooms Volunteers commit to attending school for the entire school year ---a few hours one day per week, if retired ---a few hours every 2-3 weeks, if still working Activities developed jointly with teacher
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 6 One day training session in early September ---Discussion of Volunteer Handbook ---Presentations by experienced volunteers ---Presentations by school district staff Assignments based on volunteers’ preferences, teachers’ requests, commuting distances
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 7 Examples of Assistance Interacting with students on investigations and problem sheets Complementing teachers’ presentations Serving as a resource for teachers and students Generating new experiments and material Relating the classroom learning to the outside world
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 8 Informative Videos Two volunteers in their elementary grade classrooms ebmcdn.net/fcps/fcps_video_viewer.php? viewnode=d3303e621f705 Teacher/volunteer presentations at the 2014 Annual Meeting membercentral.aaas.org/multimedia/videos/2014-aaassse- meeting-teacher-experiences-a-panel-discussion
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 9 Feedback from Teacher Partners Danielle Bruno, Elementary School Teacher “I want to take a moment to thank you wholeheartedly for introducing me to George Kralovec. We are absolutely thrilled to be working with him. Everyone is so excited and grateful to have him as part of our team at Bull Run Elementary Schoo9l. I am forever in your debt.”
Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 10 Feedback (continued) Jay Dailer, Middle School Teacher …placement of Sal Bosco in my science room at Irving Middle School. He was fantastic. I was totally blown out of the water by how he was accepted by my students and the tremendous contributions he made. This was a win-win situation for everybody—me, Sal, and especially my students. If he had to miss a week, they wanted to know where he was