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TISP
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TRYENGINEERING
OVERVIEW
Elizabeth Burd, Chair - PECC
James Irvine, Chair - ETC Portals
IEEE Educational Activities
March 2011
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The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
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A program that trains IEEE volunteers to
work with pre-university teachers
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Based on approved Lesson Plans
 Prepared
by IEEE volunteers
 Tested in classrooms
 Associated with Education Standards
 Designed to highlight engineering design
principles
 The cost is less than US$100 for a class of 30
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The Basic Approach – Lesson Plans
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IEEE volunteers and consultants develop lesson
plans that highlight an engineering design topic
 How to
build a balanced mobile (rotational
equilibrium)
 How to design a sail for a ship (aerodynamic design)
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The lesson plans are geared toward preuniversity students and are tested in the
classroom
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The lesson plans can be adapted to the
appropriate age or skill level of the students
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Volunteer Training
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Key questions to be discussed in training:
 How
to conduct a training sessions for teachers using
the TISP lesson plans?
 How to approach the school system to engage
teachers?
 How to align a lesson plan with local education
criteria?
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Teachers and officials from the education
establishment participate in the training sessions
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After The Training…
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IEEE volunteers work with the school
system to conduct training sessions for
teachers
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Teachers use the training sessions and the
lesson plans to educate their students IEEE Volunteers
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IEEE participates in paying for the program Teachers
 In
the first year, EAB pays the materials and
Students
supplies expenses for TISP sessions lead by IEEE
volunteers for teachers
 In subsequent years, funding is the
responsibility of the local IEEE Section/ subSection
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Lesson plans
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The lesson plans are organized in
two versions
For
the teacher
For the student
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The lesson plans should be aligned
with local educational standards
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Example Lesson Plans
 Sort it
 Engineering
Out
 Sticky Engineering
Challenge
 Ship the
Chip
 Move That
A
 Pipeline
Challenge
 Infrared
Investigations
 Hull Engineering
Lighthouse!
Question of Balance
 Program Your
Air Traffic
Own Game
 Engineered
Sports
 Engineered
Memory
 Wind Tunnel Testing
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Teacher In-Service Program
Presentations
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To date, over 146 TISP presentations
have been conducted by IEEE volunteers
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TISP presentations have reached over
3300 pre-university educators
This reach represents more
than 360,000
students each academic year
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What are we going to do here?
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Demonstrate two (2) lesson plans:
Working with Wind Energy
Useful
Circuits
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Discuss how to develop and use the
TISP in your local area
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Have Fun!
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What do we expect after the meeting?
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We hope that participants will get
organized to provide TISP training to preuniversity educators
A
group of 3-5 volunteers can be very
effective
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IEEE-EAB will support such activities by
paying for supplies for documented TISP
activities lead by IEEE volunteers for one
year after this session
 We
will explain the procedures
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Who is in the audience?
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Teachers from the pre-university system
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IEEE volunteers
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Other interested individuals from…
 Scottish
Government
 The Education System
 Local universities
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In other areas we also had a strong
participation of students members
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Who is here to help?
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With lesson Plans…
Members
of IEEE Staff – Educational Activities
Department
A IEEE volunteer where TISP was already tested
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With implementing the Program…
Officials from
local Educational Systems
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Expectations from IEEE Volunteers
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Organize TISP sessions throughout the preuniversity education system
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Communicate with EAB for guidance, information
exchange, and funding
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Organize a task force in Scotland or professional
group to make TISP a permanent program in your
area
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Arrange for budgeting through the Section,
Region, and IEEE Boards (MGAB, EAB)
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Expectations from Teachers
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Use the TISP approach in your classroom
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Work with the IEEE volunteers to
organize TISP training sessions for
teachers
 Report
to IEEE volunteers what lessons have
been learnt from the program
 Indicate what lesson plans were or were not
successful, and what additional lesson plans
would be required
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Our Overall TISP Goals
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 Empower IEEE Section
“champions” to develop
collaborations with local pre-university education
community to promote applied learning
 Enhance
the level of technological literacy of preuniversity educators
 Encourage
pre-university students to pursue technical
careers, including engineering
 Increase
the general level of technological literacy of
pre-university students
 Increase
the level of understanding of the needs of
educators among the engineering community
 Identify
ways that engineers can assist schools and
school systems
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IEEE’s pre-university education portal
 For
teachers, school counsellors, parents
and students
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A joint project of IEEE, IBM, and the New
York Hall of Science
 Non-IEEE
$2.5M
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US/Canada version was launched on June
2006
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