Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow's Engineers Today

起草蓝图教学明天的工程师今天是一个为期两年的MSP启动合作伙伴关系，汇集学生，教育工作者和行业举行持续的对话，合作伙伴讨论，定义，发现和设计一个明确的路径，导致MSP有针对性的合作伙伴关系。这项合作将有三个目标：1）提高5,692中学对工程的认识（6 - 8年级）学生在斯普林菲尔德公立学校（SPS）; 2）提高约240未来和在职中学教师的知识基础，使他们将有技能，材料和热情，激发他们的学生对工程;和3）创建一个流体和动态的工程教育管道，其中每个级别（行业，四年制大学课程，两年制大学课程，K-12学校）通知前一级的技能基础，以确保成功。这项初步工作的目标是建立伙伴关系，利用所有参与者的专业知识，联系和经验，加速STEM教学方法和技术的发展，增加所有STEM教师可用的主题和专业知识，从而增加思想和实践的多样性。增加对STEM概念的理解有助于消除恐惧因素，并使学生在这些领域达到好奇心和创造力的舒适水平，激励他们继续追求STEM项目和课程，并在STEM概念与真实的世界问题的分析和解决方案之间建立相关联系。教师将成为一个充满活力的，支持网络的大学教师和商业和行业合作伙伴，将提供持续的支持，并对教师和学生不断变化的需求作出反应的一个组成部分。

Drafting a Blueprint for Teaching Tomorrow's Engineers Today is a two-year MSP Start-Partnership that is bringing together students, educators, and industry to hold continued conversations in which partners discuss, define, discover, and design a clear path that leads to an MSP Targeted Partnership. This partnership will have three goals: 1) increase awareness about engineering by the 5,692 middle school (grades 6 - 8) students in the Springfield Public Schools (SPS); 2) improve the knowledge base of approximately 240 future and in-service middle school teachers so that they will have the skills, materials, and enthusiasm to excite their students about engineering; and 3) create a fluid and dynamic engineering education pipeline where each level (industry, four year college programs, two year college programs, K-12 schools) informs the preceding level about the skill base needed to ensure success. The goal of this initial work is a partnership that will leverage the expertise of all its participants, connections, and experience to accelerate the development of methodologies and techniques in STEM teaching, growing the pool of subject matter and expertise available to all STEM teachers, thereby increasing the diversity of thought and practice. Increased understanding of STEM concepts helps remove the fear factor and allows students to achieve a comfort level characterized by curiosity and creativity in these areas, inspiring them to continue to pursue STEM projects and classes and make relevant connections between STEM concepts and the analysis and solution of real world problems. Teachers will become an integral part of a dynamic, supportive network of college faculty and business and industry partners that will provide sustained support and be responsive to the changing needs of both teachers and students.