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STEM This week on Teachers TV, we meet the STEM Career Role Models. Discover the impression made upon students when they meet some inspirational professionals, such as a planetary scientist and a spacecraft engineer. STEM Career Role Models - Graham Gannon: Entrepreneur STEM role model Graham Gannon uses a challenge based on designing and selling MP3 players to demonstrate how important maths skills are in the real world. Graham, an entrepreneur and businessman, struggled with maths at school because he didn't see its relevance in everyday life. He now visits schools and colleges to help students understand how important maths can be. Graham sets Year 9 maths students at Reepham High School in Norfolk a task to design, cost and market a new MP3 player. Using a business simulator, he predicts how each group's MP3 player will perform in the market place. Through the game Graham supports and encourages the students to look at how crucial maths is to the decisions they make.
PhD medical student and STEM ambassador, Leo Garcia, shows students how he uses ultrasound to detect cancer tumours. During his visit to Kingsbury High School in London, he shows the students how an ultrasound scanner works by using it on their teacher in a game called I Spy in Sir. Leo then shares some basic facts about cancer and explains how cancerous tumours grow. He also uses a sorting game with the students, to help them understand elasticity and how it relates to finding cancerous tumours in the body. Back in his lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, Leo demonstrates how his specially-developed ultrasound equipment can clear identify tumours where normal ultrasound would fail.
STEM role model Charlotte Bailey visits her former school to talk about her work as an apprentice at the Sellafield nuclear facility. Returning to St Benedict's High School in Whitehaven, she demonstrates some fun science activities, sharing her enthusiasm for the subject. The students watch her set off a mock chip pan fire; create a screaming jelly baby, a whoosh bottle, and a mini volcano; and demonstrate how to make the perfect soap bubble. STEM Career Role Models - Chris Styles: Applications Engineer Electronic engineer and STEM career role model Chris Styles visits Linton Village College in Cambridge, to run an electronics workshop and talk about his work. Chris speaks about his work, and his experiments in his home-built electronics workshop in his garage, before giving the students a range of fun activities to do including; launching a rocket, building an electronic range finder, and working on an innovative locking mechanism and a small robotic car. The lesson culminates in the launch of the rocket on the school's playing field in an attempt to capture trajectory data from the rocket for analysis. Other programme highlights premiering on Teachers TV this week: Peace Through Music (Web tbc) Producer Mark Johnson travelled around the globe and recorded tracks for classics such as "Stand By Me" and Bob Marley's "One World" - creating a new mix in which essentially the performers are all performing together - but are worlds apart. Often recording with just battery-powered equipment, Johnson found musicians on street corners or in small clubs and they would in turn gather their friends and colleagues - in all, they recorded over 100 musicians from Tibet to Zimbabwe. This film documents the amazing journey and the great shared spirit of the musicians. School Matters Conquering the Paperwork Mountain At Westwood there's one support worker for every teacher, who are then freed from the distraction of office work. The leadership team have delegated accounts and contracts to their business managers. Alderman Jacobs Primary has a policy of sharing responsibilities. Teachers are glad to gain the experience of organisation so long as they're relieved of office work. ICT is used to support preparation and report writing is made simple with a programme specially adapted by the school. Need to Know Masters in Teaching and Learning What is it? How is it different to existing masters qualifications? And why is the Government exploring this route now? Mike Baker visits key figures in his mission to find out. The Government wants teaching to be a masters-based profession and from summer 2010, will offer a selection of teachers the opportunity to pursue a new Masters qualification.
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