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| The Maricopa Community Colleges' National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) was recently awarded a three year, $707,000 grant by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education Program. Through this funding, the Student and Teacher Technology Transformation Teams (ST4) project will increase the ability of secondary STEM teachers and students to collaboratively learn and apply STEM skills using Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
The project will provide teachers and students the opportunity to work in teams and use web-accessible ICT tools to produce design-based learning labs (DBLLs) that consist of web-based multi-media enhanced presentations of technical solutions to current, real-world problems. Producing and evaluating DBLLs helps students understand the processes and interactions encountered in professional work and stimulate development of in-depth technical knowledge and skills. The proposed training will include teachers and students in the Arizona Career and Technical Education programs of biotechnology, information technology, engineering and agriscience.
ST4 training and learning objectives will reflect the type of knowledge and skills that education planners and STEM employers have placed highest on their list of needs for 21st century graduates—the ability to think systematically, work effectively with others, and utilize technology. An objective of the project is to expose students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career pathways and connect them to Maricopa degree and transfer programs in each target discipline. Ray Ostos, Director for NCTE shares "This project will further strengthen Maricopa Community Colleges' connection to school districts and career and technical education programs."
NCTE, a department within the Maricopa County Community College District Academic and Student Affairs Division, serves in a leadership role for teacher education initiatives, working collaboratively with community colleges, school districts, and education partners to develop programs and services that support the community college role in teacher education. For more information contact Jeannette Shaffer, ST4 Project Director, at jeannette.shaffer@domail.maricopa.edu. More information about the project may be found at www.teachered.maricopa.edu.
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| October 5th, 2011 was an exciting day for the members of South Mountain Community College's Club Teach. They hosted a group of educators and researchers visiting several schools in the valley. The guests are members of a team from Mexico's federal education office studying the challenge facing schools as they serve students recently arrived from the United States. The recent arrivals are children from families returning to Mexico due to the immigration laws in this country. These students are for the most part born in the U. S. and speak only English.
This group of researchers is visiting schools to get an idea of the instructional strategies helpful to second language learners thus finding out what best meets the needs of the students and insuring their success in the Mexican school system.
They are also interested in the teacher education programs most particularly in the early grades. Club Teach arranged a five-member student panel to talk to the dignitaries about their areas of certification and plans to transfer to a university to complete their education. The student panel addressed questions from our guests. One comment, which impressed our visitors, was how our students showed their commitment and passion for becoming teachers at such a young age. Many other questions were asked of our student panel which we are proud to say were addressed and elicited even more discussion. The event was open to all students and faculty interested in teacher education and in learning about education issues in Mexico.
Dra. Alicia Valencia, a professor and researcher at the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional in Cuernavaca, Morelos, graciously extended an invitation to Club Teach members to participate in a videoconference with future teachers at her university in Cuernavaca. Plans are already underway to make this videoconference a reality sometime in November 2011.
Congratulations to Club Teach for a successful event and making our visitors feel welcomed.
List of Dignitaries
- Mtro. Ruben Rojo Araujo, Coordinador del Area de Investigacion, del Departamento de Formacion Docente, de la Secretaria de Educacion Guerrero
- Mtra. Amira Hernandez Jaimes, Profesora Investigadora, Escuela Normal Regional de Tierra Caliente, Arcelia. Guerrero
- Ma. Maria Lourdes Santana, Jefa de Investigacion del Centro de Actualizacion del Magisterio Acapulco
- Mtro. Floriberto Salgado Bustamente, Catedratico de la Centenaria Escuela Normal del Estado Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
- Dra. Alicia Valencia, Profesora e Investigadora, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Cuernavaca, Morelos
- Dra. Ma. Del Carmen Jaimes Ruiz, Subdirectora, Direccion General de Educacion Superior para profesionales de la Educacion (DGESPE)
- Mtra. Nayeli Burgeno, Directora de Progamas Academicos Internacionales en la Universidad Aut
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