Impacts Of Industry Employee Volunteering In K 12 Classrooms
Impacts Of Industry Employee Volunteering In K 12 Classrooms
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行业员工志愿服务对 K 12 课堂的影响
DOI：
10.18260/1-2--1373
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Erin Cejka
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文献类型：
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作者：
C. Rogers;Erin Cejka
工程教育有潜力提高K-12学生解决问题和批判性思维的能力，同时激励他们学习科学和数学。然而，教师要在课堂上有效地实施动手工程活动，他们可能需要额外的成人支持课程内容，课堂管理和技术支持。这方面的初步研究结果表明，提供这种支持的计划不仅可能影响K-12学生，而且可能使课堂志愿者受益。本文提出了一个探索性的研究，涉及一个这样的程序由国家仪器与当地学校的网络。该计划已在德克萨斯州中部的K-12教室安置了近250名员工志愿者，以支持课堂教师。“课堂导师”，大多数是工程师，帮助教师将动手工程设计活动带入课堂，重点是发展数学，科学，技术和工程技能。本研究的目的是从密切参与者（课堂导师和教师）的角度对该计划的感知结果进行描述。调查是为这两个群体，并采取了37课堂导师和21名教师。对这些答复进行了分析，以评估该方案产生的影响，以及这些影响在各群体之间的感受。该研究旨在了解不仅对学生和学校的影响，而且该计划如何影响课堂导师和整个公司的概念和态度变化。的
Engineering education has the potential to improve K-12 students’ problem-solving and critical thinking skills while motivating them to learn science and math. However, for teachers to effectively implement hands-on engineering activities in the classroom, they may need additional adult support for curriculum content, classroom management, and technical support. Initial research findings in this area indicate that programs providing this support may not only impact K-12 students, but may also benefit the classroom volunteers. This paper presents an exploratory research study involving one such program run by National Instruments with a network of local schools. This program has placed nearly 250 employee volunteers in K-12 classrooms in Central Texas as support for classroom teachers. The “classroom mentors,” the majority of who are engineers, help teachers bring hands-on engineering design activities into the classroom that focus on developing math, science, technology, and engineering skills. The goal of this research is to produce a descriptive picture of the perceived outcomes of the program from the perspectives of those closely involved — the classroom mentors and the teachers. Surveys were developed for both of the groups and taken by 37 classroom mentors and 21 teachers. The responses were analyzed in order to evaluate the impacts made by the program and how these impacts are perceived across and amongst groups. The research aims to understand not only the effect on students and schools but also how the program has affected conceptual and attitudinal change in the classroom mentors and the company as a whole. The