On 7-8
July 2009, the IEEE hosted a
Teacher In-Service Program development
workshop for engineers in Shenzhen,
China. The event was held for those
interested in working with their schools
and school systems and in helping
increase the level of technological
literacy of local pre-university
educators and their students.
The
overall goals of this event were to:
Empower section "champions" to
develop collaborations with
their local pre-university community
to promote applied inquiry-based
learning
Enhance the level of
technological literacy of
pre-university educators
Encourage pre-university
students to pursue technical
careers, including engineering
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
In TISP IEEE volunteers develop and
present technologically oriented
subject matter to educators in a
professional development (or
“in-service”) setting.
Since 2001, IEEE volunteers have made
120 presentations to more than
3,000 pre-university educators and
315,000 students within six Regions
in the United States, South America,
Malaysia and South Africa.
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Electronic copies of materials
distributed at the event can be found
below.
» TISP Shenzhen Agenda --
English (Word, 52 KB),
Chinese (Word, 60 KB)
