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systematic STEM policy change across Israeli education

1 Promoting a culture of scientists Promoting a culture of scientists School-Industry collaboration Results a systematic STEM policy change across Israeli education system Maya Halevy, Bloomfield science museum Jerusalem, Israel

2 Current situation : STEM formal education system Solving national issues The problems: Poor achievements in international STEM scoring Less students choose to study sciences as major in high school MoE solution: a flagship program to increase % of students completing matriculations with quality STEM majors by: Adding more instructional hours to schools Teacher training/having more qualified teachers and Improving infrastructures in schools Offering incentives to students who complete quality STEM majors

3 case studies + 1 wide intiative Case study I- Industry offered the MoE the development of curriculum & support to teachers, with Academia as partner Case study II Industry and SM developed with the

3 3 case studies + 1 wide intiative Case study I- Industry offered the MoE the development of curriculum & support to teachers, with Academia as partner Case study II Industry and SM developed with the MoE a national program to support excellence in STEM Case study III- SM and MoE invited Industry to help develop new curriculum and teachers support The initiative a coalition of Industries, Foundations, Academia, Informal Institutions & Teachers to support STEM education in Israel

Case study I Promoting Chemistry at high school The problem - shortage in chemistry graduates for the Pharmaceutical industry The solution - New curriculum for Junior High school, based on hands on,

4 Case study I Promoting Chemistry at high school The problem - shortage in chemistry graduates for the Pharmaceutical industry The solution - New curriculum for Junior High school, based on hands on, developed by the Academia Pedagogic Development to teachers by the national science teachers center in the University. Students visits Lab in the industries /Engineers visits schools The program was initiated by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries with the Weizmann institute

Case study II Developing PBL culture and Support excellence s in STEM The problem - PBL is well known but not in massive use, Science Fairs are rare in schools level, No demand and no benefit for

5 Case study II Developing PBL culture and Support excellence s in STEM The problem - PBL is well known but not in massive use, Science Fairs are rare in schools level, No demand and no benefit for High school students who do research projects The solution - Three official (MOE) main objectives: Expand meaningful project based approaches across all schools in Israel Create an infrastructure to feed National Fairs at all levels Support the excellent students with mentors from the industry The program was developed by INTEL and the Bloomfield science museum Jerusalem with the MoE

6 Building a national Infrastructure: Implementation in in 4 parallel paths ISEF EUSCYS Country level fair Elementary-Middle school-high school City/Regional fairs Elementary-Middle school-high school School fairs Elementary-Middle school-high school

Case study 3 : introducing Engineering In primary schools and

engineering challenges, pedagogic materials with intensive

and science museums family programs 26 partners* from 12

Universities, 2 networks organization, 1 administrative company

7 Case study 3 : introducing Engineering In primary schools and museums Developing learning units in various relevant engineering challenges, pedagogic materials with intensive teachers training, as part of the science curriculum in school and science museums family programs 26 partners* from 12 countries** in 3 years *10 science museum, 10 primary schools, 2 Universities, 2 networks organization, 1 administrative company / ** from Europe, Middle East and the US Coordinator- the Bloomfield science museum Jerusalem

Industry support Intel Engineers support

8 The infrastructure In Israel The MoE adapt the ENGINEER project for the Primary school system,and wish to develop an ENGINEER II program for Junior High Industry support Intel Engineers support the development of the project as the base for the PBL

9 Opportunities A complex social problem needs to join forces towards common actions. Involving stakeholders from different sectors, brings special added value from and to each organization. One overall view with coordinated action plan can make national Impact

THE INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION o The vision - To create in Israel culture of excellence in science, To be among the leaders in the challenging & innovative

10 THE INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION o The vision - To create in Israel culture of excellence in science, To be among the leaders in the challenging & innovative field of science education in the 21 st century o The mission (in 10 years) To double the quality and quantity of graduates in STEM To give science literacy to all the future citizen

THE INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION o The initiators - Trump Foundation, Rashi Foundation and Intel Company o The partners - Industry - Cisco; Marvell; Checkpoint; SanDisk; Teva;

11 THE INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION o The initiators - Trump Foundation, Rashi Foundation and Intel Company o The partners - Industry - Cisco; Marvell; Checkpoint; SanDisk; Teva; Microsoft; Philips Academia - Weizmann institute; Technion; Oranim college; Informal education organization - Appleseed; Atidim; CET; Bloomfield science museum Jerusalem Educators - Teachers and school headmasters

12 THE INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION The Minister viewpoint - Supports the initiative; nominated high level people to take part in the discussions, asked that one of the working group will focus on the development of a common policy The Next steps - onomination of the Steering committee and the coordinator (Sheatufim) - done o Developing communications tools o Creating and operating working thematic groups o Agreement on common evaluation criteria

13 What we hope to accomplish The meaning of co (forming nouns) joint; mutual; common: co-education (forming adjectives) jointly; mutually: co-own (forming verbs) together with another or others: co-produce

14 Thanks for your time Maya Halevy Director Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem Hebrew University, Givat Ram Jerusalem 91904, Israel Phone: Mobile : Fax : mayah@mada.org.il

Appendix II: U.S. Israel Science and Technology Collaboration 2028

Appendix II: U.S. Israel Science and Technology Collaboration 2028 "Israel 2028: Vision and Strategy for Economy and Society in a Global World, initiated and sponsored by the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology