Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow's Engineers Today

“今日起草明日工程师教学蓝图”是一项为期两年的MSP启动伙伴关系，它将学生、教育工作者和行业聚集在一起，进行持续的对话，合作伙伴在对话中讨论、定义、发现和设计一条通往MSP目标伙伴关系的清晰路径。该合作伙伴关系将有三个目标：1)提高斯普林菲尔德公立学校（SPS） 5,692名中学生（6 - 8年级）对工程的认识；2)提高约240名未来和在职中学教师的知识基础，使他们具备激发学生学习工程的技能、材料和热情；3)建立一个流动和动态的工程教育管道，每个级别（工业，四年制大学课程，两年制大学课程，K-12学校）告知前一级确保成功所需的技能基础。这项初步工作的目标是建立一种伙伴关系，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。加深对STEM概念的理解有助于消除恐惧因素，让学生在这些领域达到一种以好奇心和创造力为特征的舒适水平，激励他们继续从事STEM项目和课程，并在STEM概念与现实世界问题的分析和解决之间建立相关联系。教师将成为一个充满活力的、支持性的大学教师和商业及行业合作伙伴网络的组成部分，该网络将提供持续的支持，并对教师和学生不断变化的需求作出反应。

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.