Event Title
Poster: Building Community and Excitement among Our Majors: How We Are Using Workshops to Support Our Students and Our Programs
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
12-5-2016 4:00 PM
End Time
12-5-2016 5:00 PM
Description
Our cross-disciplinary collaborative team implemented a series of hands-on, engaging science and engineering workshops for education majors in Spring 2016. We sought to improve pre-service teacher attitudes toward science and engineering by engaging participants in high-quality science and engineering professional development that provide students with ready-to-use lessons and resources for their future classrooms. We also sought to foster a more well-informed and socially supported cadre of future professional program students. This latter goal was targeted by a new mentoring aspect of the workshops. Current professional program students who volunteered to learn alongside undergraduate students discussed the BSU education program, answered questions and provided advice. We will report on our findings from pre/post surveys we developed using modifications of validated instruments measuring attitudes about science and science teaching as well as several of our own questions focused on teacher identity, social networking and resourcing.
Poster: Building Community and Excitement among Our Majors: How We Are Using Workshops to Support Our Students and Our Programs
Moakley Atrium
Our cross-disciplinary collaborative team implemented a series of hands-on, engaging science and engineering workshops for education majors in Spring 2016. We sought to improve pre-service teacher attitudes toward science and engineering by engaging participants in high-quality science and engineering professional development that provide students with ready-to-use lessons and resources for their future classrooms. We also sought to foster a more well-informed and socially supported cadre of future professional program students. This latter goal was targeted by a new mentoring aspect of the workshops. Current professional program students who volunteered to learn alongside undergraduate students discussed the BSU education program, answered questions and provided advice. We will report on our findings from pre/post surveys we developed using modifications of validated instruments measuring attitudes about science and science teaching as well as several of our own questions focused on teacher identity, social networking and resourcing.