Goals+and+Objectives

The overall goal of this project is to provide teachers with content knowledge and pedagogical tools to engage students in solving authentic, multi-disciplinary problems in a relevant engineering context.

Objectives: 1) Provide a model for effective multi-disciplinary classroom teaching employing authentic, problem-based learning scenarios that teachers will be expected to use with their students. 2) Assist teachers in becoming “highly qualified” by increasing their pedagogical content knowledge in multiple content areas. 3) Increase teacher awareness of different types of instructional technologies and how to employ them appropriately in the classroom. 4) Teachers, participating as learners, will solve engineering problems in a real world application format using math, science, reading literacy, information literacy, social studies, and instructional technology content and skills. 5) Increase teacher experience and facility in using formative and summative assessment strategies to engage in data-driven decision making about student learning. 6) Provide continuous support, outreach, and collaboration throughout the academic year to participating teachers via a virtual professional development website. 7) Cause a shift in teachers’ classroom pedagogy from a uni-disciplinary model to a multi-disciplinary model of problem-based learning in which student thinking is the key to student learning. 8) Share authentic, problem-based learning created by participants with other teachers through the K20 ALT project ([|http://k20alt.k20center.org])

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