Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow's Engineers Today

今天起草教育未来工程师的蓝图

• 批准号: 0831698
• 负责人: Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Springfield Technical Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831698&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Drafting; Blueprint; Educating; Tomorrow; Engineers

Drafting a Blueprint for Teaching Tomorrow's Engineers Today is a two-year MSP Start-Partnership that is bringing together students, educators, and industry to hold continued conversations in which partners discuss, define, discover, and design a clear path that leads to an MSP Targeted Partnership. This partnership will have three goals: 1) increase awareness about engineering by the 5,692 middle school (grades 6 - 8) students in the Springfield Public Schools (SPS); 2) improve the knowledge base of approximately 240 future and in-service middle school teachers so that they will have the skills, materials, and enthusiasm to excite their students about engineering; and 3) create a fluid and dynamic engineering education pipeline where each level (industry, four year college programs, two year college programs, K-12 schools) informs the preceding level about the skill base needed to ensure success. The goal of this initial work is a partnership that will leverage the expertise of all its participants, connections, and experience to accelerate the development of methodologies and techniques in STEM teaching, growing the pool of subject matter and expertise available to all STEM teachers, thereby increasing the diversity of thought and practice. Increased understanding of STEM concepts helps remove the fear factor and allows students to achieve a comfort level characterized by curiosity and creativity in these areas, inspiring them to continue to pursue STEM projects and classes and make relevant connections between STEM concepts and the analysis and solution of real world problems. Teachers will become an integral part of a dynamic, supportive network of college faculty and business and industry partners that will provide sustained support and be responsive to the changing needs of both teachers and students.

起草蓝图今天要教明天的工程师，这是一项为期两年的MSP开始伙伴关系，它将学生，教育工作者和行业汇集在一起​​，以进行持续的对话，合作伙伴讨论，定义，发现，发现和设计一条通往MSP目标合作伙伴关系的清晰道路。该合作伙伴关系将有三个目标：1）提高Springfield公立学校（SPS）的5,692名中学（6-8年级）学生对工程学的认识； 2）提高大约240个未来和在职的中学教师的知识库，以便他们具有技能，材料和热情，以激发学生对工程学的兴趣； 3）创建一个流动而动态的工程教育管道，每个级别（行业，四年制大学课程，两年的大学课程，K-12学校）将上一个级别的水平告知确保成功所需的技能基础。这项初始工作的目的是一种合作伙伴关系，它将利用其所有参与者，联系和经验的专业知识，以加快STEM教学中方法和技术的发展，增强所有STEM教师可用的主题和专业知识，从而提高思想和实践的多样性。对STEM概念的了解增加有助于消除恐惧因素，并使学生达到以这些领域的好奇心和创造力为特征的舒适水平，激发了他们继续追求STEM项目和班级，并在STEM概念与分析和解决现实世界问题的分析和解决方案之间建立相关联系。教师将成为大学教职员工和行业合作伙伴的动态，支持性网络的组成部分，这些网络将提供持续的支持，并能够响应教师和学生的不断变化的需求。