Action Plan Template Intel ISEF 2009

Educator AcademyMay 2009

Taiwan

Intel ISEF

Support system(government, universities,

corporations, foundations)

Follow-up study of finalists

Finalists

Keep Momentum Going!!Keep Momentum Going!!

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High Level Goals• What do you want to accomplish for your country?

Look at long term goals (3-5 years) and short term (1-2 years)

• Long term goals– Keep the momentum of current support system,

including Govt, judges, mentors, high schools, etc– Promote the award ISEF projects– Encourage the award students to expand their

research results– Enhance project-based learning in science education

system

• Short term goals– Update impact survey of science fair participants– Introduce thinking tools to science teachers– Promote science boot camps to grade 3-12 students

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Objectives• How will you know you succeeded?

– Please list the results you want to see– Student participation in affiliated fairs increases 20%

over a three-year period– Volunteers/mentors increases 15% during the 2009-

2010 school year– Publish and distribute 5,000 copies of journals and

CDs of award projects to all high schools– More than 10% of award projects expand

applications – Systemic curriculum changes underway; 200

teachers trained in Project Based Learning– Refresh and update Taiwan ISEF finalists– Teachers apply thinking tools in their classroom– Conduct 300 hands-on science boot camps to reach

out 5000 students

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Action Plan – steps to meet your goals and objectives

Action Measure of Success Who's Responsible

By When

Upgrade impact survey of ISEF finalists

research funding approval

Mariana Fung Nov. 2009

Introduce thinking tools to science teachers

100 teachers complete the pilot workshop

Rachel Liu Oct. 2009

Promote science boot camps to grade 3-12 students

300 science boot camps are held

Mariana Fung May 2009

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Action Plan – steps to meet your goals and objectives

Action Measure of SuccessWho's

ResponsibleBy

When

Enhance project-based learning in science education system

15% precollege teachers complete the training

Greg Lee Oct. 2012

Encourage the ISEF award students to expand their research results

10% award projects expand their applications

Proty Jiun-Huei Wu

May 2012

Promote the ISEF award projects

5,000 copies of journals and CDs introducing the award projects are distributed

Mariana Fung

Jul. 2009

Keep the momentum of the current support system

*sufficient Gov. funding*steady increase of judges and mentors*steady increase of participants and projects

Mariana, Rachel,

Greg, Proty, Yu-Mei

Review every year

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Intel ISEF Educator AcademyAs a result of your participation in the 2009 Educator

Academy, reflect on your experience. – Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from the Educator

Academy• The food is nice• The content is useful and helpful to facilitate inquiry and project-based

learning of science• Nice networking with participants from other countries

– Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team?• Students as Scientists High School Curriculum (Nathalie Valencia-

Chacon)• How to present yourself and deal effectively with the media (Jack

Franchetti)• Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman• Korea’s “hands-on science classes” & its impact on job creation (Eun Ju

Kim)• Michael Geisen, National teacher of the Year in the United States• Taiwan’s successful experience: improving science fair projects and the

impact on students and their career choices (Mariana Fung)

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Intel ISEF Educator AcademyAs a result of your participation in the 2009 Educator

Academy, reflect on your experience. – What types of Shop Talks were missing?

• How to get comprehensive support from government and recruit professional mentors?

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