Workshop for Conversations Related to Motivating Interest in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering among Oklahoma K-12 Students

将在俄克拉何马大学(OU)举办一个分阶段的研讨会，让学校管理人员参与对话，以增强他们对工程学作为一门学科的认识，并确定OU工程学院如何以最佳方式利用其资源和专业知识来支持和增加学生对工程学的参与和参与。研讨会的第一阶段让俄亥俄州立大学的工作人员和农村学区的管理人员进行对话，了解K-12年级数学和科学素养的障碍，这些障碍阻碍了即将入学的大学生S对工程专业的兴趣和能力。第二阶段的范围和任务类似，除了邀请的K-12代表将包括来自俄克拉荷马州市区和郊区学区的负责人、校长和课程主任。研讨会有三个主要目标。首先是提高俄克拉荷马州校长S对鼓励K-12学生准备在大学学习工程学的重要性的认识。第二是制定一项计划，通过该计划，俄亥俄大学工程学院、K-12校长、校长、教师以及专业和行业合作伙伴可以合作促进和实施适合K-12学生及其家长的工程教育计划和活动，以提高他们对科学和数学的兴趣和动力。三是从俄克拉荷马州K-12校长、专业组织和工业捐赠者那里为工程学院寻找潜在的战略合作伙伴？S更快工程教育(SEED)中心。该研讨会将试图找到一条在K-12年级学生中推广工程学的互惠互利和可接受的途径，并确定(SEED)中心或其他类似的工程教育中心如何让适当的联邦、州、专业和行业合作伙伴参与合作和长期计划，以增加攻读工程学学位的学生数量和多样性。这些研讨会的成果将通过主要出版物传播给工程教育工作者，研究成果也将直接传播给俄克拉何马州的教育工作者。研讨会对话的结果将对全国各地的工程项目感兴趣，因为俄克拉荷马州的人口统计数据与全国几个州相似。讲习班制定的行动计划应有助于SEED和其他有类似人员的机构从代表性较低的农村社区招聘和留住准备好的工程学学生。

A phased workshop will be held at the University of Oklahoma (OU) to engage school administrators in conversations to enhance their awareness of engineering as a discipline and to establish how the OU College of Engineering can optimally utilize its resources and expertise to support and increase student participation and engagement with engineering. The first phase of the workshop engages OU staff and administrators from rural school districts in a dialogue to understand the obstacles to mathematical and scientific literacy in the K-12 that inhibit incoming college student?s interest in and ability to pursue engineering majors. The second phase is similar in scope and mission, except that the K-12 representatives invited will include superintendents, principals and curriculum directors from urban and suburban school districts in Oklahoma. The workshop has three major objectives. The first is to increase awareness in Oklahoma?s K-12 superintendents and principals of the importance of encouraging K-12 students to prepare to study engineering at the university level. The second is to develop a plan through which OU College of Engineering, K-12 superintendents, principals, and teachers and professional and industrial partners can cooperatively facilitate and implement appropriate engineering education programs and activities for K-12 students and their parents to enhance interest and motivation in science and mathematics. The third is to identify potential strategic partners for the College of Engineering?s Sooner Engineering Education (SEED) Center from Oklahoma K-12 superintendents and principals and professional organizations and industrial donors. This workshop will attempt to discover a mutually beneficial and acceptable path for promoting engineering among K-12 and identifying how the (SEED) center or other similar engineering education centers can engage appropriate federal, state, professional, and industrial partners in a collaborative and long-term plan for increasing the number and diversity of students pursuing engineering degrees. Results from these workshops will be disseminated to engineering educators through major publications, and research results also will be disseminated directly to Oklahoma educators. The results of the workshop dialogs will be of interest to engineering programs across the nation since the Oklahoma state demographics is similar to several states in the nation. The action plan developed from the workshop should aid SEED and other institutions with similar constituents in recruiting and retaining prepared engineering students from poorly represented rural communities.