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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

COMMITTEE ON K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION

 
 

WORKSHOP AND THIRD MEETING

ROOM 101

KECK CENTER

WASHINGTON, DC

 

MEETING AGENDA

 

 

Day 1: October 22

   

7:30 a.m.

Breakfast- Discussion of Meeting Goals

 

8:00 a.m.

Welcome and Plans for the Day

 

Linda Katehi, Chair

 

8:15 a.m.

TOPIC 1: Engineering Concept and Skill Development in K-5 Students

 

• Research on Skills (25 mins)
Anthony Petrosino, University of Texas, Austin

 

• Research on Concepts (25 mins)
Chris Schunn, University of Pittsburgh

 

• Examples of Student Classroom Learning (15 mins)
Rich Lehrer, Vanderbilt University

 

Respondent: Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University (10 mins)

   

9:30 a.m.

Committee Q&A

 

Moderator: Craig Kesselheim

   

10:00 a.m.

Break

   

10:15 a.m.

TOPIC 2: Teacher Professional Development in Engineering K-5

 

• Lessons Learned from “Engineering is Elementary (EiE) PD” (25 mins)
Christine Cunningham, Boston Museum of Science

 

• Adapting EiE PD to Encourage Open-Ended Mathematical Modeling (25 mins)
Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

   

11:30 a.m.

Committee Q&A

 

Moderator: Dave Burghardt

   

12:00 p.m.

Lunch- Small group discussion with presenters

   

1:00 p.m.

TOPIC 2 (cont.): Teacher Professional Development in Engineering K-5 Introduce the panel- Burghardt

 

• Lessons Learned from “City Technology” (25 mins)
Jim Neujahr, City College of New York

 

• Lessons Learned from “Children Designing and Engineering” (25 mins)
Ron Todd, The College of New Jersey

 

• Thoughts on Developing a Pre-Service Engineering Course for K-5 Teachers (25 mins)
David Crismond, City College of New York

 

• The M/S/T Education Major at TCNJ (25 mins)
Steve O’Brien, The College of New Jersey

   

3:00 p.m.

Break

   

3:15 p.m.

Committee Q&A

 

Moderator: Dave Burghardt

   

3:45 p.m.

TOPIC 3: Creating Educational Change

 

• A Case Example: Efforts to Introduce K-12 Engineering in New Jersey (25 mins)
Beth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology

   

4:15 p.m.

Committee Q&A

 

Moderator: Deborah McGriff

   

4:45 p.m.

Final Comments and Thanks to Workshop Attendees

 

Linda Katehi, Chair

   

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

   
   
   
   
 

Day 2: October 23

   
 

CLOSED SESSION BEGINS

   
   

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