Teach Middle East Magazine Mar-Apr 2018 Issue 4 Volume 5 | Page 43

A Moment with is to help facilitate a STEM Shift in the model of education for an Innovation Age and to create innovators . We do this through professional development of principals and teachers , through consulting with schools that want to develop a STEM Strategic Plan , and through summer camps including one on entrepreneurship .
I chose the UAE originally as a country with a vision that wants to innovate now and be the best in the world . I like to get things done and this is a place that provides that opportunity for our organisation . We are expanding into the other surrounding countries as well .
Share two ways in which the work that you are currently doing positively impacts young people .
Students participating in our schools and programs are going into STEM careers and STEM degrees , they are developing start-ups and widening their opportunities . I would describe our process as a K-12 Accelerator that outputs students that have already understood the application of learning to the real world , who are ready to go out and create . Innovation is needed everywhere and in every field .
What makes the teacher training
provided
by
STEM
Revolution
different ?
Our team consists of staff that are educators , principals , business and technology innovators . While we have top academic degrees from Stanford , MIT etc . we have on the ground direct experience in building three successful and award winning STEM Schools , from the ground up and shifting traditional schools into STEM School . We have done it , and in fact we are currently looking at a design of 22nd century model of a school innovation and learning centre , and we are excited about that .