Designing Teacher Professional Development Workshops for Robotics Integration across Elementary and Secondary School Curriculum

Author

Hong Zhou ; Yuen, Timothy T. ; Popescu, Cristina ; Guillen, Adrienne ; Davis, Don G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Interdiscipl. Learning & Teaching, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 April 2015

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

216

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to support STEM education through teacher education at the university and post-university level. Moreover, the workshop leveraged the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and an interdisciplinary approach to engage teachers with robotics. The workshop´s design and implementation highlights the affordances of an interdisciplinary approach for attracting a greater diversity of teachers across all content areas to provide students with educational robotics activities.

Keywords

STEM; educational institutions; educational robots; professional aspects; teacher training; STEM education; TAM; educational robot activities; elementary school curriculum; interdisciplinary approach; postuniversity level; professional development workshop design; robotics integration; secondary school curriculum; teacher education; teacher professional development workshop design; technology acceptance model; workshop design; workshop implementation; Computers; Conferences; Educational technology; Robots; Training; Usability; Educational robotics; STEM education; teacher education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (LaTiCE), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.21

Filename

7126262