Outcomes of a three-year in-service secondary teacher training program in engineering design

• Published in: 2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) pp. 1591 - 1596
• Main Authors: Young, James F., Jensen, Deborah L.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Atmospheric measurements; Blogs; Buildings; Conferences; Engineering Design; Heating; Particle measurements; Teacher Professional Development; Teacher Training

We have developed and implemented a comprehensive, three-year professional development program for in-service secondary teachers to prepare them to teach engineering design and problem solving, and to use design-based teaching approaches in their science curriculum. The program used a constructionis...