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The EbD™ Network Preparing Students for the Challenges of Tomorrow. March 25, 2009 Louisville, Kentucky. Begin with the End in Mind. Steven Covey, Habit 2. Introductions Sharing. Engineering byDesign™ Consortium A National Collaborative for Standards-based Teaching and Learning.
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The EbD™ NetworkPreparing Students for the Challenges of Tomorrow March 25, 2009 Louisville, Kentucky
Begin with the End in Mind Steven Covey, Habit 2 • Introductions • Sharing
Engineering byDesign™ Consortium A National Collaborative for Standards-based Teaching and Learning • 17 States Collaborating • Curriculum • Instruction • Assessment Arizona Connecticut Florida Georgia Illinois Kentucky Maine New Hampshire Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Texas Virginia Maryland Missouri North Carolina North Dakota
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EbD™ Model Implementation Growth 32 24 14 14 11 10 9
Improving Instruction & Student Achievement in EbD™ Network Schools Middle School High School
Standards-Based Model – Grades K-16 Endorsed by * ProBase and I3 – NSF funded projects
FY 09 and FY10 New Product Schedule • FY2009 • Technological Design • Technological Issues & Impacts • PD Technological Design • PD Advanced Technological Applications • FY2010 • Invention & Innovation • Foundations of Technology (online version) • PD Technological Issues & Impacts • PD Invention & Innovation • PD Foundations of Technology (online-tentative)
Professional Development Creating a Community of Learners
eTIDEonline™ Discussion & Sharing • Participation in eTIDEonline. • Are you using it? • Why or why not? • Have you been able to post? • Have you been able to download resources? • What can we do to IMPROVE the system • Moderators
eTIDEonline™ Action • Research • Action Research – between teachers around the country • What have you found in the Guides that works? • What have you found in the Guides that does NOT work? • Sharing Success Stories – created section on eTIDE to do this
Continuous Improvement • Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment • Course Guides • Professional online Learning Community • Online Student Assessment & Design Challenge • Tell us about it!
“We understand that students exposed to the Engineering byDesign program will achieve higher gains in mathematics and science because of the contextual nature of the content delivered.” Dr. Sebastian Rodriguez, Principal Southlake High School
EbD™ End-of-Course Online Assessments + • Online questioning – • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Knowledge & Cognitive Process Dimensions • Design Challenge • Interdisciplinary- measuring Technological Literacy through Technology, Mathematics, Science, and Engineering standards.
bburke@iteaconnect.org Barry Burke, DTE www.engineeringbydesign.org