Title: NOAA Education Presentation to the 50th AAS Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
1NOAA Education Presentation to the 50th AAS
Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
- Louisa Koch
- NOAA Director of Education
- March 29, 2012
- Louisa.Koch_at_NOAA.GOV
2Dreams and Possibilities Planning for the
Achievable
- Update on NOAA Education
- Opportunities and Accomplishments
- Increasing diversity in the STEM workforce
- Promoting Earth system science education
- Performance evaluation and monitoring
3NOAA Mission Statement2010 NOAA Strategic Plan
- Science, Service and Stewardship
- To understand and predict changes in climate,
weather, oceans, and coasts, - Share that knowledge and information with others,
and - To conserve and manage coastal and marine
resources
4America COMPETES Reauthorization 2010
- The education programs developed by NOAA shall,
to the extent applicable - carry out and support research based programs and
activities designed to increase student interest
and participation in STEM - improve public literacy in STEM
- employ proven strategies and methods for
improving student learning and teaching in STEM - provide curriculum support materials and other
resources - create and support opportunities for enhanced and
ongoing professional development for teachers
using best practices STEM teachers with STEM
educators at the higher education level.
5Taking the Pulse of the Planet
- Monitoring
- Research
- Modeling
- Predictions
- Management
- Education
- Partnerships
6Footprint of NOAA Education Across the Country
7Major Areas of Collaboration
- Science on a Sphere (NOAA Led/NASA/NSF Supported)
- GLOBE Program (NASA Led/NOAA/NSF Supported)
- Climate Education Working Group NASA/NOAA/NSF
CoChairs - Committee on STEM Education
- Climate Change Education PI Meeting (April 2012)
- American Meteorological Society Education
8Opportunity 1 Workforce Diversity
2010 Data on Gender in the Workplace
FY 2010 data
9Opportunity 1 Workforce Diversity
2010 Data on Race and Ethnicity in the Workplace
FY 2010 data
10NOAAs Educational Partnership Program
- Accomplishments since 2001
- 928 students (771 from under represented
communities) have earned degrees in NOAA
mission-related sciences - 102 students hired by NOAA
- Produced 100 of African American Ph.D. graduates
in Atmospheric Sciences in 2006/2007 (Source
NSF) - Capacity building at MSIs 82 new faculty and 8
new STEM degree programs
11 Opportunity 2 Promoting Earth System Science
Education
Next Generation Science Standards
Scientific and engineering practices
Crosscutting concepts Disciplinary core ideas
(Earth and Space System Science) NRC July
2011
Natl Research Council , AAAS, Natl Science
Teachers Association, Achieve effort 26 states
leading Managed by Achieve Due Fall 2012
12Ocean Explorium
Opportunity 2 Promoting Earth System
Science Education
80 SOS Installations Worldwide
- Science on a Sphere
- Innovative platform for reaching the public about
the Earth system - Evaluation found that 82 of visitors said seeing
information on the sphere changed how they
understood the information - 71 said they learned something new and could
give examples (e.g. how it conveys complexity and
change about the Earth system)
13Opportunity 3 Monitoring and Evaluation
- NOAA is ensuring each education investment has
- Clearly identified needs of the target population
- A logic model connecting the activities to the
desired outcomes - Clear outputs, outcomes and goals
- Alignment with effective practices
- An evaluation strategy that promotes continual
improvement - Strategic partnering
14In Closing
- It is difficult to say what is impossible, for
the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and
the reality of tomorrow. - Robert Goddard