OCTOBER 21, 2015
Dear ASEE K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Members,
Thanks to all who submitted abstracts for the 2016 Annual Conference, and to those who submitted Sunday Workshop Proposals for the Pre-Conference. Many of us now have abstract reviews on our to-do lists. If you’ve signed up to review abstracts, be sure to do so! Also, for those of you awaiting the Call for Proposals for the Saturday K12 Annual Teachers Workshop: expect the Call to come out in about one month.
Today’s newsletter is short, with just two new items for your consideration:
1. ASEE Diversity Newsletter: As we exit the Year of Action on Diversity, this fall issue reflects the widely successful Turning Points panel within which student panelist voices discussed races, disabilities, social, gender and other issues influence on turning points in their career. Page 2 features student essay and video contest winners. Page 3 highlights the visible footprints at the annual conference and invites divisions/schools to host a microinequities webinar. General questions and comments can be submitted to diversity@asee.org. The newsletter can be accessed via the link: http://diversity.asee.
2. NSTA Seeks Volunteers: NSTA is seeking volunteers to review STEM books similar to the way that NSTA, working with the Children’s Book Council, reviews books for its “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12” annual list. The first step is to identify people who would work on a panel to create a procedure etc., for the review process. If you are interested in being considered for the panel, please send an email to me at plottero@towson.edu containing a few sentences about how your STEM/engineering education work connects to trade books for K-12 (and/or preschool/pre-K) students. Please do so by Monday, October 26th at noon.
Feel free to send brief tidbits of information for me to share in an upcoming newsletter. Have a most excellent day!
Take care,
Pam
Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D.
Chair, K12 & Precollege Engineering Division
American Society for Engineering Education
Associate Professor of Science Education
Director, Integrated STEM Instructional Leadership (PreK-6) Post-Baccalaureate Program
Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences
Towson University
ANNOUNCEMENTS (All in Previous Newsletters):
SUPPORT P12 Teachers by recognizing their work!
Allen Distinguished Educators Awards through the Paul G. Allen Foundation. From the website: “The Allen Distinguished Educators program supports educators that are developing programs that teach entrepreneurship and engineering in more engaging, practical ways.” From Jody Allen, co-founder and president of the foundation: “We look to support the creative and the untapped.” These awards are for K12 teachers. Learn more here. (Previous text was posted in the September 9thnewsletter.) Additional information for shouting out this information via Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin:
Tweet: Teachers: We need you to Inspire, Enable & Empower. Apply to be one of the next @AllenEducators [ow.ly/SfOxD ]
Facebook & LinkedIn: Teachers: We need you to Inspire, Enable & Empower. The Allen Distinguished Educators Award is accepting applications for K-12 teachers who create innovative, student-directed programs focused on computer science,engineering and/or entrepreneurship skills. Apply Now at [https://www.
More Reviewers needed to review Allen Distinguished Educators. The Paul G. Allen Foundation is seeking reviewers to review Allen Distinguished Award applications (see above). If you are interested, contact Stephanie Harrington-Hurd, Manager of International and K12 Activities for ASEE: s.harrington-hurd@asee.org
Northrop Grumman Foundation Excellence in Engineering Education Award. A partnership between the Northrop Grumman Foundation and NSTA recognizes excellence in the field of engineering education. One award will be presented annually to a K–12 public school science/technology teacher with a minimum of 3 years’ teaching experience. Awardees will be recognized for exhibiting excellence in engineering science education. The award consists of $5,000 for classroom materials and equipment, a cash prize of $3,000, and $2,000 to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education. Apply by November 30. Learn more, or download an application.
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS (Also in previous newsletters)
Stevens Institute of Technology invites applications for Assistant Director for Research at the Center for Innovation inEngineering and Science Education (CIESE). This a non-tenure track staff position. CIESE develops effective innovative curricula and conducts professional development and research in order to inspire, catalyze and strengthen science, technologyengineering and mathematics (STEM) literacy for K-12 and higher education. The successful candidate will support CIESE’s Director and staff and Stevens faculty to conduct education research, prepare scholarly publications, and support grant proposal development. Specifically, responsibilities may include designing, conducting and coordinating research studies; analyzing evidence from grant supported research; developing student and teacher assessments, surveys and observation protocols for K-12 science and/or engineering learning; and acting as a liaison with external program evaluators. For more information and to apply, please go to http://www.stevens.edu/ciese/
K-12 Technology & Engineering Education Faculty, Tenure-Track Faculty Position – Department of Technological Studies in the School of Engineering at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The department invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position starting August 2016. This position is at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The Department of Technological Studies has created a series of STEM focused K-12 education programs. Started in 1998, one of the largest elementary education majors on campus is our integrative-STEM dual major that produces a large number of integrative-STEM capable K-6 and middle school teachers. The department was also one of the first programs in the country to create a secondary technology education K-12 program with a substantial engineering emphasis, as represented by content and methods course requirements. The department also supports a Masters-in-the-Art-of-Teaching (M.A.T.) degree, which was enhanced in 2013 with a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. A Masters of Education in integrative-STEM degree is also under development. The department is taking leadership in K-12 STEM education both regionally and nationally. Our mission is to graduate the next generation of educational leaders with expertise in both pedagogy and STEM content knowledge, as well as the capabilities necessary to create STEM-literate citizenry.
An earned doctorate in Technology Education, Engineering Education, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Engineering, or a closely related field is required. ABD candidates will be considered, but must complete all requirements for the Ph.D. or Doctoral degree by the start date of appointment. Each successful candidate must present evidence of capabilities in all of the following areas: K-12 STEM education with a substantial emphasis on technology and engineering education (with substantial direct experiences with K-12 students preferred), undergraduate teaching, curriculum and laboratory development, evidence of sustained STEM-education focused research, an understanding of integrative STEM methods, directing student design projects, involving undergraduate students in research, and a potential for national leadership in the field. TCNJ HR website link:http://goo.gl/Epw3yP. Online application: https://goo.gl/Nymjvz.