Chronic Shortage of Science teachers How we will fix it...thanks to EIE

It is now accepted that the shortage of science teachers will have to live with us for a generation. The projected statistics is sickening particularly as we are more technological that any previous generation in human history. We have collectively mis-classified this problem as STEM, and STEAM issues. But the reality is that we loose over $1.3 trillion dollars from to poor science or mathematics teaching due to science teacher shortage. The number one reason for the situation is known. We don't even have to reverse engineer anything. The simple agriculture rule of seed and fruit rules. If we plant the seed of curiosity in the young ones, they will keep asking questions, and experimenting. However, if we show the 'facts' and get them to memorize, we will continue to have robots and bored humans.

The root cause of low science up-take is teaching an obsolete, irrelevant and non-engaging curriculum using very outdated and inefficient methodology instead of following interests of learners and firing curiosity. In the short term we can get parents and any adult 'haters' of mathematics and science on intensive programmes of orientation and learning similar to the current weekend EIEBootCamp held in Oxford, Cambridge and London. We must stop paying lip-service to a serious national economic disaster, its more than a mere educational catastrophe. #STEAM #STEM #Teaching

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