scholarly journals Preparing Tomorrow’s Engineers And Engineering Technologists: An Evaluation Of The Project Lead The Way Outreach Program For Middle And High School Students In Indiana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Ncube
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Project Lead The Way ◽  
School Students ◽  
Project Lead ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Holding Up the Middle

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (04) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Project Lead The Way ◽  
School Students ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Project Lead ◽  
Additional Exposure

This article highlights the introduction of new programs that keep science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in focus for students between elementary and high school. The number of U.S. STEM middle school magnets grows every year thanks in part to a curriculum from Project Lead the Way. Magnet schools are public schools that tie curriculum to a certain theme; the schools offer choice to a diverse population by drawing interested students from surrounding districts. Middle school units focus on engineering design, sustainable energy solutions, aeronautics, astronautics, and green architecture. Schools that use the curriculum are required to implement the design and modeling and the automation and robotics units. Students in junior high already involved in STEM subjects need additional exposure to math, science, and engineering before high school. Students exposed early to a STEM curriculum often follow it through high school. The growth in middle school programs lets them do just that.

The Boiler Tech Challenge: A Fun Competition and Recruiting Tool for Engineering Technology Programs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Fuehne ◽  
Julie Phillips ◽  
Anji McKinney
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Project Lead The Way ◽  
School Students ◽  
Team Members ◽  
South Central ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Project Lead ◽  
The Way

Project Lead The Way, a pre-engineering curriculum for secondary students, has gained in popularity and importance at secondary institutions in the Region 9 workforce area in south central Indiana. The Purdue College of Technology in Columbus, Indiana stands to benefit from this effort by attracting these students to its programs, which have been enrollment-challenged in recent years. One possible recruiting tool instituted by the College of Technology in Columbus is the “Boiler Tech Challenge” for Project Lead the Way students throughout the region. Nearly 200 students from high schools around the region assembled at the Purdue College of Technology site in Columbus. There were teams of 4 students who needed to solve one of five possible challenges. With a space theme, the teams needed to design and build a space station tower to withstand a certain weight, build and assemble a spacesuit for one of the team members to wear, use a CAD tool to design a space station, design and build a pneumatic lift system to assist in the production of hydroponic vegetables in the space station, and design and build a carbon dioxide scrubber/filter to clean the air on a command module. This last challenge is similar to the situation encountered by the astronauts of Apollo 13. A maximum of 10 teams (no more than 4 team members per team) do each challenge and are given two hours to complete the challenge. Prizes are given to the winners. Other sessions throughout the day-long event include information sessions about the College of Technology in Columbus, a presentation by an engineer associated with the space program, and lunch. This work provides more details about the event and includes survey results of the participants. The initial event brought approximately 160 high school students to the Purdue College of Technology campus in Columbus and was a great recruiting tool.

scholarly journals Students' Learning Experiences with the  Web 2.0 Tool MyPortfolio: a Case Study of One High School Classroom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rochelle Alison Duke
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
The Way

<p>Portfolio learning has been utilised in education for many years and a natural development in today's digital environment has been the move from paper to electronic portfolios (e-portfolios). The development of e-portfolios in New Zealand has also been driven by two forces- the emerging view that e-portfolios can be an effective way to support constructivist approaches to learning and help develop students into 'lifelong learners' ; and the beliefs about today's digital environment and the way in which students should and do operate within this. In many ways, e-portfolio research is a relatively young field of study and much of the research that has been conducted has occurred in the tertiary environment and related to the perceptions of the instructor or technologist. In an attempt to add depth to current e-portfolio research, this study made use of a mixed-methods, descriptive case study approach in order to focus on the perceptions of a group of high school students and the way in which they experienced using the e-portfolio application MyPortfolio for the first time. Key findings of this study focus on the way in which students experienced using MyPortfolio and the fact that although it is often claimed that e-portfolio tools can be effective in helping developing reflective thinking in students, overall, the students in this study predominately saw MyPortfolio as a tool to organise and process knowledge rather than something that could help them to engage in 'deep learning'. The experiences and perceptions of the students in this study also challenged ideas about how much students want to use ICT within the school environment and this study suggests that increased use of ICT can lead to students missing the social interaction that usually occurs within the classroom. In a similar vein, the students in this study also challenged the idea of the 'digital native' and their experiences suggest that, as with any area of learning, students' skills with using ICT varied greatly. The way that the students in this study made use of MyPortfolio also demonstrates the fact that although e-portfolio tools such as MyPortfolio offer students the opportunity to engage in reflective learning, they do not necessarily undertake this naturally. Finally, the findings of this study highlight the role of the teacher in supporting effective use of ICT for learning.</p>

scholarly journals Coping with School Violence Behaviour of High School Students (Research on High School Students in Da Nang City)

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Thanh Yen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Violence ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
School Students ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

In today’s society, there are still school violence behaviors that affect simultaneously seriously to the physical and mental health of students as well as their academic performances. This article will present how high school students in the city of Da Nang cope with these related problems. A study with the participation of 423 students at seven schools in Da Nang city was carried out to describe the fact how students cope with school violence behaviours. Its result shows that the main cause of school violence behavior comes from students’ witnessing various types of violence. In addition, students apply positive responses through actions and emotions when faced with school violence behaviors. Based on the result obtained, the study recommends measures to partially affect the way the schools and families develop their solutions, as well as directly affect the survey subjects.

scholarly journals Teaching Speaking Descriptive Text Using Facebook for Senior High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fithriyah Putri Perdana ◽  
Sulistyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Senior High School Students ◽  
The Way

The purposes of this research are to describe the implementation of the teacher in teaching speaking descriptive text using facebook for Senior High School Students, and to describe the achievement of the students in speaking using facebook. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The data were taken from the tenth grade students of senior high school in Sidoarjo. The data collecting technique used instruments of observation field note, interview and test. From the observation field note was described that the implementation of teaching learning process given were: First, the way of speaking descriptive text was explained to the students. Second, the examples of generic structure of descrptive text were displayed. Third, the way to describe picture profile from the Facebook was explained to the students. The last, the pleasant atmosphere was created while the students tried to operate Facebook for describing the profile of someone. Further, the results of test had shown that the  students’ scores were good; with the average scores > 75. They show that the technique of Teaching Speaking Descriptive Text Using Facebook For Senior High School students is good for teaching speaking.  

Developing High-School Students´ Competences through Math Research Workshops – the M&L Project

2019 ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
Ariana-Stanca Vacaretu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Research Workshop ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Math Concepts ◽  
The Way

Mathematics is or it should be about problem solving and math thinking. However, what mathematics students learn in schools is more about procedures for solving different types of math exercises and problems. In many cases, students learn by heart algorithms and words (math concepts) and use them for solving different math tasks. School math is very far from what mathematicians do and, in many cases, doesn’t motivate students for learning math. This paper presents the way we organized the assessment of the students’ skills developed through math research workshops and some of the assessment results. Even though we didn’t assess all the competences the students develop through the math research workshop, the findings show that the students certainly develop their problem-solving skills.

scholarly journals Near-Peer Teaching Outreach Programs to Increase Minority Physician Recruitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. e122-e126
Author(s):  
Wendy Linderman ◽  
Nicholas Apostolopoulos ◽  
Anand Gopal ◽  
John Encandela ◽  
Christopher Teng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Peer Teaching ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Peer Teachers

Problem Health disparities among racial and ethnic groups exist in the United States despite improvements in health status and access to care. These inequalities may be reduced by increasing minority physician recruitment; however, how best to recruit these physicians remains unclear. Approach Near-peer teachers are not professionally trained, but have recently learned material that they themselves teach. Near-peer teaching in minority student outreach programs may be effective in increasing minority physician recruitment. The authors used a near-peer teaching model to promote interest in medicine, specifically ophthalmology, as a potential career path for both volunteer near-peer teachers and minority high school students participating in an educational outreach program. Twenty-one college and graduate-school near-peer teachers of various racial and ethnic backgrounds participated to teach 31 inner-city high school students. The program was evaluated using pre- and posttest surveys assessing students' knowledge about and interest in science, medicine, and ophthalmology; analysis used pairwise t-test comparisons. Qualitative responses and an end-of-training survey also assessed students' and near-peer teachers' satisfaction with the program and perceptions about medicine as a career. Outcomes Students' knowledge about and interest in medicine and ophthalmology increased significantly after participation. Near-peer teachers agreed that teaching in the program was beneficial to their careers and made it more likely that they would enter medicine and ophthalmology. Next Steps The authors will track the near-peer teachers' career paths and, in the next iteration, will increase the number of program days. This intervention may serve as a model for outreach for other specialties beyond ophthalmology.

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