1 / 4

Issues – K-12 Education

Issues – K-12 Education. Awareness of and interest in engineering as a profession by the teachers, students, administrators, youth leaders, and parents (especially at the sensitive grades of K-7).

betty_james
Download Presentation

Issues – K-12 Education

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Issues – K-12 Education • Awareness of and interest in engineering as a profession by the teachers, students, administrators, youth leaders, and parents (especially at the sensitive grades of K-7). • Resources (trained people, money, educational instructional material, programs, communications, interested volunteers) • Access in the classroom (getting time in the classroom, associated with the mandated curriculum)

  2. Opportunities – K-12 Education • In-school programs (regular school instruction, Science Fair, tutoring, Project Lead-the-Way, STEDTRAIN, student branch) • After-school and out-of-school programs (JETS, FIRST, BEST, KISS, VEST, Boy/Girl Scouts, Future City, MathCounts, Science Fairs, tutoring, student branch) • Teacher Programs (Workshops, on-line material, incentives/CEUs)

  3. K-12 Solutions • Web site to include service: • Member and teacher posting of ideas and needs regarding classroom • Clearing house for STEM information • Names of IEEE volunteers who can act as resource people

  4. K-12 Solutions cont. • IEEE STEDTRAIN Project – solicit and coordinate funding for special classroom projects • Best practice for approval of teach continuing education hours offered through TISP or other sources • IEEE Position paper on math and science education standard for teachers in K-12.

More Related