IEEE Teacher In-Service Program Training

IEEE Teacher In-Service Program Training

9-10 September 2006

Putrajaya Marriott Hotel
Putrajaya, Malaysia, 62502

Selangor Room

AGENDA

9 September (Saturday)

14:00 Registration

17:00 Social

18:00 Buffet Dinner in the Cafe

20:30 Teacher In-Service Program Presentation (Nico/Doug/Yvonne)

· “Design and Build a Better Candy Bag”

22:30 Adjourn

10 September (Sunday)

7:00 Buffet Breakfast in the Cafe

9:00 Welcome and Introductions (Norman)

Why Are We Here? (Doug)

· Why is IEEE involved in pre-university education outreach activities?

· EAB Pre-University Initiative

· IEEE Section contributions and expectations

Workshop Goals:

· Empower Section “champions” to develop collaborations with their local pre-university education community to promote applied inquiry-based learning.

o Enhance the level of technological literacy of pre-university educators.

o Encourage pre-university students to pursue technical careers, including engineering.

o Increase the general level of technological literacy of pre-university students for many years.

· Increase the level of understanding of the needs of educators among the engineering community

· Identify ways that engineers can assist education departments

9:45 Challenges and Opportunities in Malaysian Schools and School Districts (Mustapar Muhamad)

10:15 Coffee Break in the Foyer

10:30 TISP Background and Scope (Nico/Doug)

· Purpose

· Duration

· Benefits

· Participating Sections

· Highlights

· Timeline

· Assessment/Questionnaire Results/Metrics

· What Constitutes an Overall In-service Program?

· 4 + topics developed and presented to pre-university educators by Section volunteers within a 2 year timeframe

· Topics could be rolled out by various volunteers (portable)

· 4 + topics available for deployment each school year

· Expenditures

· IEEE’s Regional Activities Board, Educational Activities Board’s Pre-university Initiative, “Launching Our Children’s Path to Engineering”, and IEEE USA are supporting the institutionalization of TISP

· Areas of expenditures—supplies, materials, refreshments, copying, small equipment.

· Likely timeframe for expenditures

· How $ are accessed

· Expenses submitted by Section for reimbursement

· Please remember to include receipts

· Send to Chris Salicco at:

IEEE—Educational Activities

445 Hoes Lane

Piscataway, NJ 08854-1331

732 562 5492

11:15 How to Begin? (Nico/Doug)

· A front end loaded process

· Two entities to coordinate simultaneously

· The Section

· The School/District

Section Focus

· Getting started

· Volunteers & “Coaches”

· Cost (to the Section and to the teacher)

· Publicity (flyers, newsletter articles)

· Topics

· A practical, hands-on, applicable focus

12:00 Activity—Alignment with Education Standards

12:30 Buffet Lunch in the Cafe

14:00 Panel Discussion-- School/District Focus

· How to develop a partnership with your local pre-university education community

· How/who to contact in schools and school districts

· How to approach/what to say to education personnel

· What are the needs of schools and school systems

· Panelists provide guidance to IEEE volunteers on how to work effectively with schools and school systems.

15:15 TISP Presentation (Nico/Doug/Yvonne)

· “Build Your Own Robot Arm”

16:30 Summary

· Send expense report to:

Chris Salicco

IEEE—Educational Activities

445 Hoes Lane

Piscataway, NJ USA 08854-1331

732 562 5492

· Include receipt even if you direct billed your flight

· Adjourn

17:00 Coffee in the foyer

Additional Suggestions

· The Presentation

· Handouts are a must

· Hands-on segments must be included

· “Take away” supplies/models/materials are important

· Small group work (pairs, 3, 4) is strongly encouraged

· PowerPoint or Overhead slides are fine

· Suggested outline

· Complete questionnaire (please use these 12 questions and add additional questions if you desire)

· Tabulation of results

· Complete school/district forms

· Other Presentation Venues

· State/Province/Region wide science, technology, and/or mathematics teacher conferences

· Presentation Proposal for a teacher conference

· College of Engineering programs for pre-university teachers

Follow-up activities

· Determine the level of instructional implementation of the TISP presentations

o Email teachers after the presentation requesting feedback

o Postcard sent to attendees requesting feedback