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13:30
15:00
IEEE Teacher In-Service Program Training
Intercon 2007
4-5 August
Universidad de Piura
Piura, Peru
AGENDA
4 August
11:00
11:30
Welcome (Pepe Valdez/Enrique Alvarez/Eduardo Aliaga)
Why Are We Here? (Moshe)
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Why is IEEE involved in pre-university education outreach activities?
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EAB Pre-University Initiative
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IEEE Student Branch and Section contributions and expectations
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Workshop Goals: o Empower Section “champions” to develop collaborations with their local pre-university education 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. o Increase the level of understanding of the needs of educators among the engineering community o Identify ways that engineers can assist schools and school systems
Teacher In-Service Program Presentation (Moshe)
 “Cracking the Code”
Lunch
What are the Challenges and Opportunities in Peruvian
Education Departments?
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15:45
16:15
16:45
18:30
TISP Background and Scope (Moshe/Doug)
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Purpose
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Duration
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Benefits
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Participating Sections
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Highlights
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Timeline
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Region 9 goal
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Assessment/Questionnaire Results/Metrics
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What Constitutes an Overall In-service Program?
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4 + topics developed and presented to pre-university educators by Section volunteers within a 2 year timeframe
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Topics could be rolled out by various volunteers (portable)
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4 + topics available for deployment each school year
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Expenditures
 IEEE’s Regional Activities Board, Educational Activities
Board and IEEE USA are supporting the institutionalization of TISP
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Areas of expenditures —supplies, materials, refreshments, copying, small equipment.
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Likely timeframe for expenditures
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How $ are accessed
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Expenses submitted by Section for reimbursement
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Please remember to include receipts
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Send to Chris Salicco at:
IEEE —Educational Activities
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854-1331 c.salicco@ieee.org
732 562 5492
Coffee Break
Teacher In-Service Program Presentation (Moshe/Doug)
 “Build Your Own Robot Arm”
Adjourn
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5 August
8:30 How to Begin? (Moshe/Doug)
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A front end loaded process
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Two entities to coordinate simultaneously
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The Student Branch
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The School/District/Department
Section Focus
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Getting started
 Volunteers & “Coaches”
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Cost (to the Student Branch and to the teacher)
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Publicity (flyers, newsletter articles)
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Topics
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A practical, hands-on, applicable focus
9:15 Teacher In-Service Program Presentation (Moshe)
 “Rotational Equilibrium: A Question of Balance”
11:00
11:30
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion-- School/Education Department Focus
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How to develop a partnership with your local pre-university education community
12:45
13:00
Summary and Closing
Adjourn
Additional Suggestions
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The Presentation
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Handouts are a must
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Hands-on segments must be included
 “Take away” supplies/models/materials are important
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Small group work (2 or 3) is strongly encouraged
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PowerPoint or Overhead slides are fine
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Suggested outline
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Complete questionnaire (please use these 12 questions and add additional questions if you desire)
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Tabulation of results
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Complete school/district forms
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Other Presentation Venues
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State/Province/Region wide science, technology and/or mathematics teacher conferences
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Presentation Proposal for a teacher conference
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College of Engineering programs for pre-university teachers
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