关键词:
Mentoring
Self efficacy
Design engineering
Robots
Engineering education
English teachers
Coaching
Science teachers
摘要:
Mentoring a robotics team can teach you how to incorporate engineering principles into your science curriculum, as called for in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), by allowing you to engage in engineering design experiences and increase your comfort with these activities. Bringing engineering into science classrooms takes time and practice, and science teachers with no engineering experience can find it challenging to integrate engineering design into the science curriculum in a way that maintains connections between engineering design and science content (Cunningham and Carlsen 2014; Dare, Ellis, and Roehrig 2014). [...]mentors face a range of challenges, from forming and managing teams to helping students maintain motivation and interest. In a recent National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers-funded project, researchers used a combination of online modules, interactive webinars, and face-to-face sessions to prepare middle school teachers to address the challenges of mentoring robotics teams.