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Who Is Doing the Engineering, the Student or the Teacher? The Development and Use of a Rubric to Categorize Level of Design for the Elementary Classroom
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Nadelson, Louis S.; Pfiester, Joshua; Callahan, Janet; Pyke, Patricia – Journal of Technology Education, 2015
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development for K-5 teachers often includes engineering design as a focus. Because engineering applications provide perspective to both teachers and their students in terms of how mathematic and scientific principles are employed to solve real-world problems (Baine, 2004; Roden,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Scoring Rubrics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
A Project-Based Engineering and Leadership Workshop for High School Students
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Ryder, Linda Sue; Pegg, Jerine; Wood, Nathan – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
Summer outreach programs provide pre-college participants an introduction to college life and exposure to engineering in an effort to raise the level of interest and bring more students into engineering fields. The Junior Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (JEMS) program is a project-based summer workshop in which teams of high school students…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Outreach Programs, Workshops, High School Students
A Mentoring Model for Interactive Online Learning in Support of a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
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Graves, Scott M.; Abbitt, Jason; Klett, Mitchell D.; Wang, Changhua – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2009
The Lewis & Clark Rediscovery Project is a technology professional development program designed to help teachers restructure teaching and learning practices in the classroom, and to foster technology use in the schools. The 5-year program (extended into a 6th) was funded in 1999 with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education: Technology…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses
NEW HORIZONS IN DEVELOPING VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN SMALL HIGH SCHOOLS IN SMALL DISTRICTS.
GREEN, JOHN A.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE ACTIVITIES OF A SUMMER WORKSHOP ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WERE REPORTED. FOUR LEADERS WERE CHOSEN TO LEAD SMALL GROUP SESSIONS. THE TOPICS DISCUSSED WERE (1) DEVELOPING CURRICULUM AND ADMINISTRATIVE PATTERNS FOR OPERATION OF PREVOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, (2) ISOLATING AND IDENTIFYING RESEARCHABLE PROBLEMS, (3) CREATING A…
Descriptors: Conferences, Curriculum Development, Dropouts, Evaluation Methods
Balancing Teachers' Willingness to Change with Classroom Realities: Moving towards an Error Model in Professional Development Research
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Ravitz, Jason – Buck Institute for Education, 2003
A statewide evaluation in Idaho addressed whether teachers changed in teaching philosophy and technology skills following summer in-service workshops and whether these changes sustained themselves in the face of school year and classroom realities. The timing of data collection is an important factor to consider when interpreting program outcomes.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Workshops, Data Collection, Attitude Change
Title I ESEA Migrant Education: State Annual Evaluation Report, Fiscal Year 1981 (School Year 1980-81).
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 1981
The report reviews Idaho's Migrant Education Program, which served 6,786 migrant children in programs hosted by 33 districts during the regular term and 3,302 children in summer schools in 28 locations. Following a listing of national and state goals for migrant education is a summary of specific objectives stated in the State Plan, strategies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Objectives