Work in progress — Developing elementary science teacher training modules based on doctoral research in engineering

Author

Prieto, Diana ; Rocha, Patricio ; Otieno, Wilkistar ; Das, Tapas K.

Author_Institution

Ind. Manage. & Syst. Eng. Dept., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2010

Abstract

With the objective of addressing the need for reinforcing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in the education system, authorities have encouraged the creation of partnerships between universities, school districts, and other entities to attract and develop science teachers. STARS, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded GK-12 program, and The School District of Hillsborough County (Florida) is an example of such partnership, which consists of the joint preparation of bi-monthly teacher training workshops. In this paper, we describe the experience and analyze the results of the STARS engineering graduate fellows developing original and innovative research-driven lesson modules for K-5 teachers in the workshops.

Keywords

engineering education; physics education; teacher training; bimonthly teacher training workshops; doctoral research; elementary science teacher training modules; engineering graduate; national science foundation; school districts; Conferences; Educational institutions; Knowledge engineering; Medical services; Systems engineering and theory; Training; Elementary school; Fellows; K-12 Partnership; Research-driven lessons; Science;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6261-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2010.5673141

Filename

5673141