STEM Person Of The Week Cymru - STFC role models in Wales (SPOTW Cymru)

Cymru是由诺森比亚大学（Northumbria University）的NUSTEM创建、开发和测试的一项已建立且有证据支持的倡议的演变。SPOTW Cymru提供干预措施，包括每周一次的STEM人物表演、课堂资源和教师CPD，为威尔士的新小学观众提供服务，因为威尔士存在国家特定需求。该项目旨在解决年轻人面临的障碍，他们认为STEM工作不适合“像我这样的人”。与其他角色榜样计划的不同之处在于，它使用了在STEM领域工作的人的属性，然后在接下来的5周的日常教学中，在课堂情境中观察和突出这些属性。这些观察有助于向学生展示他们已经拥有的内在技能，这意味着他们可以自然地“属于”STEM工作环境。作为STEM影响者与教师合作，并为学生提供带回家的资源与家长分享，这对STEM建立信任活动有附加价值。此外，教师可以更广泛地认识到STEM技能可以从事的工作的多样性，这有助于在未来几年为他们的知识积累遗产。迄今为止对该项目进行的研究表明，对STEM工作人员的负面刻板印象有所减少，一些变化持续了至少12个月。到目前为止，NUSTEM已经在英格兰的42所学校为1万多名学生提供了这个先导项目。在SPOTW Cymru项目中，科学变得简单（SMS）将扩展这一成功的英语倡议，以响应威尔士小学的需求，并为学生提供与STFC有威尔士遗产或与威尔士有其他联系的工作人员的本地化联系。威尔士新课程的采用提供了一个机会（也需要）来提供专注于STEM技能和职业相关经验的双语资源。职业和工作经验（CWRE）是学校现在必须解决的一个核心交叉主题（类似于英国使用的盖茨比基准）。我们建议改编教材，让威尔士的SPOTW榜样参与进来，这将帮助威尔士学生看到STEM工作在他们自己的地区与当地的相关性。此外，我们的目标是鼓励该计划在整个威尔士得到更广泛的采用，这将需要编写双语教材，并向所有人提供威尔士语教学。SMS目前在三个主要的STFC设施提供STFC的早期职业公众参与培训计划，以鼓励更多的早期职业员工参与公众参与和外展工作。SMS旨在将SPOTW Cymru与那些毕业生和学徒培训群体联系起来，以确定并邀请与威尔士有联系的STFC人员参与，从而为该计划的参与者提供额外的公众参与机会。作为对学校的额外激励，并帮助提高资源的知名度，我们将利用“科学变简单”在提供角色示范主题互动节目方面的经验。通过这种方式，我们不仅使现有的计划具有威尔士风味，而且还增加了面对面的体验，作为学校的启动活动，以及一系列教师CPD培训，以及家长参与节目本身的选择。通过在更广泛的项目中使用一致的评估工具，我们将能够测试该节目对学校的吸收和参与的影响。这一学习成果将分享回NUSTEM团队，旨在提高英国范围内项目的长期可持续性和增长。

STEM Person of the Week (SPOTW) Cymru is an evolution of an established and evidence-backed initiative created, developed, and tested by NUSTEM at Northumbria University. SPOTW Cymru provides interventions - including a STEM Person Of The Week show, classroom resources and teacher CPD - serving a new primary schools' audience in Wales, where country-specific needs exist.The project aims to tackle the barriers faced by young people who see STEM jobs as not for 'people like me'. What makes this different to other role model schemes is that it uses the attributes of people working in STEM that are then observed and highlighted in a classroom situation over a further 5 weeks during day-to-day teaching. These observations help to show students how they already have inherent skills that mean they could naturally 'belong' in a STEM working environment. By working with the teachers as STEM influencers and providing take home resources for students to share with parents there is added value to this STEM confidence-building activity. In addition, teachers gain a wider awareness of the diversity of jobs you can do with STEM skills, which helps build a legacy in their knowledge for years to come. Research conducted on the project to date has shown that the negative stereotypes of people working in STEM were reduced and some changes persisted for at least 12 months. The precursor project has so far been delivered by NUSTEM in 42 schools to over 10,000 students in England. In the SPOTW Cymru project Science Made Simple (SMS) will expand this successful English initiative to respond to the needs of primary schools in Wales and provide localised connections for students to STFC connected staff who have Welsh heritage or another connection to Wales. The adoption of a new Curriculum for Wales provides an opportunity (and a need) to provide bilingual resources that focus on STEM skills and careers related experiences. Careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) are a core cross-cutting theme that schools now must address (in a similar way to the Gatsby benchmarks used in England). We propose that an adaptation of materials to involve SPOTW role models from Wales would help Welsh students see the local relevance of STEM jobs to them in their own region. In addition, we would aim to encourage that the scheme is adopted more widely across Wales and this will require the creation of bilingual materials and Welsh-language delivery being available to all. SMS currently delivers STFC's Early Career Public Engagement training programme at the three main STFC facilities to encourage more participation from early careers staff in public engagement and outreach work. SMS aims to link SPOTW Cymru to those graduate and apprentice training cohorts to identify and invite participation from STFC people with Welsh connections, thereby providing an additional public engagement opportunity for those on this scheme. As an additional motivation to schools, and to help raise the profile of the resources, we will build on the experience that Science Made Simple (SMS) has in delivering role-model themed interactive shows. In this way we are not just adapting the existing scheme with a Welsh flavour but also adding a face-to-face experience as a kick-start event in the school, alongside a series of teacher CPD training, and the option for parental involvement in the show itself. By using consistent evaluation tools with the wider programme this will allow us to test the impact the show has on the uptake and the engagement from schools. This learning will be shared back to the NUSTEM team and aims to enhance the sustainability and growth of the UK-wide programme long-term.