Highlights this week include:

STEM Subject Choice and Careers

• Science
  In a Year 8 science lesson pupils learn about IVF through role play, which also helps them to understand about different careers involved. 
• Mathematics
  Teachers introduce the sorts of careers that mathematics can offer through relating the maths skills students learn in the classroom to those used in the real world. 
• Engineering
  Maths teacher Eva Cowlishaw and science teacher Amy Lucas, from CTC Kingshurst Academy in Birmingham, take a group of Year 9 students through a series of activities aimed at introducing them to the sorts of careers engineering can offer them. 
• Careers 
  The programme highlights the importance of schools arranging significant careers education inputs in Year 8 and even earlier in order to raise aspirations and challenge stereotyping more effectively. 
• Professional Knowledge � Why is Science Important? 
  Physics Teacher Alom Shaha goes on a quest to find a range of answers to the question � why science is important? His goal is to provide a convincing answer to all those students who question the point of science lessons.
• Water Water � Watering the Future
  The third and final episode in this series looks to the future with an optimistic eye.
• Bacterialand  
  Associated with germs and illness, bacteria have a very bad reputation. But bacteria are also implicated in the origin of life on our planet � we could even say that they are our microscopic ancestors.
• Teaching with Bayley: NQTs in Science � Engaging with Learners 
  Science teacher John Duggan at Lampton School in Hounslow has worked hard on his lesson plans, but he worries that he's not reaching every pupil in his mixed ability Year 8 class. 

Also:

• The Teaching Challenge � Rachel Johnson  
  Bestselling novelist and columnist Rachael Johnson is the sister of London mayor Boris Johnson. On his patch, Rachael enters a comprehensive school classroom to teach a class in journalism for the first time in her life.