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NSF-funded PBL Scenario Development Fosters Curriculum Alignment NCPN 2012

NSF-funded PBL Scenario Development Fosters Curriculum Alignment NCPN 2012. SC ATE and South Florence High School . Tressa Gardner – Project Manager and Co-PI, SC ATE Center of Excellence, Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, SC

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NSF-funded PBL Scenario Development Fosters Curriculum Alignment NCPN 2012

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  1. NSF-funded PBL Scenario Development Fosters Curriculum Alignment NCPN 2012

  2. SC ATE and South Florence High School • Tressa Gardner – Project Manager and Co-PI, SC ATE Center of Excellence, Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, SC • Andrew Bell – Science/Physics teacher, South Florence High School, Florence, SC

  3. SC ATE Center of Excellence • Focus → producing technicians in advanced technology fields that drive our nation’s economy • National Science Foundation funding since 1995

  4. SC ATE Center of Excellence • To increase the quality, quantity, and diversity of Engineering Technology graduates in support of economic development • Program improvement through PBL - problem-solving, teamwork, communication

  5. Technology Gateway • Integrated, multiple-disciplined, problem-based curriculum comprised of workplace scenarios • Increases the opportunity for high school students to become “college ready” • Bridges disconnects, helps “at-risk” students graduate and enter higher education

  6. Technology Gateway in HSs • Promotes on-time graduation to increase retention and success • Provides clear pathways to technology-based careers • Ramp to technology-based, post-secondary programs

  7. Instructional Leadership Institutes • Began with Technology Gateway in 2007 • Expanded to include teachers from South Florence HS, Florence, SC in 2009 • Four SFHS teachers have participated to date

  8. Roots and Wings ILI • Technology Gateway Teaching Team Training – 2009 • Facilitated Problem-based Learning (PBL) Scenario Development – 2011 • Facilitators-in-training and Scenario Builders at R&W2 – 2012 • March 2013 – Charleston, SC?

  9. Statistics from Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGGYIw_pIj8

  10. Problem Based Learning • What types of students I teach? • How do I go about selecting when to do a project or not? • How do I introduce the problem based scenario into the classroom? • What do some of your problems/projects look like?

  11. Problem/Projects • Toothpick Bridge • Mousetrap Cars • Rollercoasters • Gateway- Break room • Gateway- Simple Machines • Rube Goldberg Machine • Catapults

  12. Advise for projects • Be flexible both with materials and time. • Be creative. • Be prepared to be challenged by yourself, students, parents and administration. • Be over prepared. • Be surprised. • You will be exhausted.

  13. South Carolina Course Alignment Project (SC CAP) • A statewide initiative sponsored by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, the SC Department of Education and the SC Technical College System • The goal of the project is to better align the courses taken by high school juniors and seniors with those taken in the freshman year at the state’s technical colleges and universities.

  14. Questions?

  15. Thank you! Tressa.Gardner@fdtc.edu Abell@fsd1.org

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