Professional Development
Telling Tales
I’ve been thinking about ways to make Science real. If we want students to be STEM literate, then we need to find ways for science to fit into our daily lives. Not an easy task, for it to happen, Science must come down out of it’s ivory tower. C.P. Snow wrote of the divided cultures [...]
Keeping Up With the Research
My Ed Psych text book advised me to “keep up with research”. Wonderful, yet another source of reading material I have little time for, and yet, after spending a morning surfing about the internet, looking at educational sites, I have to confess I learned something. Educating children is a complex task. Too complex for any [...]
Engineering comes to High School
UT at Austin has announced that the National Science Foundation, NSF, has joined an impressive array of sponsors, including Exxon Mobil and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a $12.5 million grant to fund the popular UTeach program to prepare High School Engineering Educators. But, I think individual teachers can do it for a [...]
