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Session Description

Guidance counselors and teachers can influence students' course taking and career vision. This session examines research and models for educating these constituents about engineering.

Moderated by

1. Dr. Tirupalavanam G Ganesh

Papers Presented

1. Guidance Counselors’ Beliefs and Expectations about High School Students' Precollege Engineering Preparation [view paper]
   Mitchell J. Nathan (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Amy Kathleen Atwood (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Amy C. Prevost (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Natalie A. Tran (California State University, Fullerton )
2. Preparing Counselors to Advocate STEM Careers: A Professional Development Model for K-12 Counselors [view paper]
   Meagan C. Ross (Purdue University, West Lafayette)
3. Grade 3-8 Teachers’ Initial Ideas about 21st Century Skills in the Context of a Science and Engineering Professional Development Program [view paper]
   Augusto Z. Macalalag, Jr. (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Chris Jurado (Stevens Institute of Technology)
4. The Impact of STEM Graduate Students in the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers Implementing a Problem-Based Inquiry Learning Curriculum [view paper]
   Cher C. Hendricks (Georgia Institute of Technology), Barbara Burks Fasse (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Donna C. Llewellyn (Georgia Institute of Technology)