Awakening Your Stem School: Assuring a Job-Ready Workforce - Softcover

Smith, Dr Aaron L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633930610 ISBN 13: 9781633930612

Verlag: KOEHLER BOOKS, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Páginas: 230 Géneros: 12:PD:Science: general issues 12:JNT:Teaching skills & techniques 12:JNMT:Teacher training Sinopsis: Every school in America embraces the need to dramatically improve STEM education. And every business in America needs STEM graduates. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education) Business leaders and educators know the skills and knowledge in each of these disciplines are deeply intertwined into the real world of jobs. Dr. Aaron Smith',s thoughtful narrative offers ideas, tools and actions that both community leaders and educators can deploy to inspire students and assure that a job-ready workforce flows from the local schools. Here resides a guide for community and business leaders on how to become involved at a meaningful level to make sure employers can recruit capable and prepared students. Here school leaders can become inspired to embed the skillsets needed in the 21st century workplace._,

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Críticas

"Every educator and business leader in America knows that STEM is vital, and that this is where we need to go. Awakening Your STEM School offers us a guide for business leaders and educators on how to get there together." -Josh Cramer, Senior Educational Programs Officer, SME Education Foundation "Teachers and administrators can use this book as a guide to develop and implement other innovative approaches to enhance STEM learning in their school, community, and state." -Dr. Roger A. Hathaway, Special STEM Programs Manager, NASA "Dr. Smith uses his experiences with real students and their stories to illustrate his ideas about how make a STEM school work. This book will inspire educators to think "out of the box" about how to really motivate students and parents to engage with STEM." -Dr. Marsha Sprague, Director of Teacher Preparation, Christopher Newport University

Reseña del editor

Dr. Aaron Smith, the director of a pioneering STEM public school, answers the question, “How can educators transform an ordinary STEM site into an inspired, premiere learning center?” “Awakening Your STEM School” provides a proven framework for teachers, administrators, and business partners offering forty-two actions and ideas with over 300 tips to transformation. Dr. Smith’s passionate approach is simple and focused; prepared just for teachers, principals, and business leaders who are daily cobbling together their STEM school, seeking inspiration and valuable suggestions. No matter where a school or program is in the advancement toward STEM education, the catalyst for transformation is already there – residing in the heart of the teachers and leadership.

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• Verlag: KOEHLER BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1633930610
• ISBN 13: 9781633930612
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230