CP12 is Here to Support Your Engineering Outreach Efforts
ASEE CP12 is proud to offer guidance and support for working with PreK-grade 12 engineering educators and their students. Teaching engineering skills, mindsets, and career awareness to elementary and secondary education students differs from teaching engineering in higher education. Please explore the resources below to learn about working with teachers, working with youth, and how you can share your experiences in the ASEE community.
Best Practices for Working with Teachers
ENGINEERING TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
You are planning an engineering teacher academy or other professional development day–have you seen the Standards for the Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers of Engineering and their accompanying matrix? If you’re working in the P12 engineering teacher professional development space, then you need to check these tools out!
These tools will help you to formatively assess and improve your own PD, and help you better describe your PD to others. You can read the J-PEER paper that supports this work as well.
If you would like your program endorsed by ASEE for following these guidelines, then consider the ASEE Engineering Teacher Professional Development Endorsement (ETPDE). Any individual or organization seeking ASEE’s formal endorsement of a P12 Engineering Professional Development Workshop for educators should view EPTDE’s website here.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF P12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION?
The National Academy of Engineering published Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering in K-12 Education in 2020. “Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering in K-12 Education reviews existing curricula and programs as well as related research to understand current and anticipated future needs for engineering-literate K-12 educators in the United States and determine how these needs might be addressed. Key topics in this report include
- the preparation of K-12 engineering educators,
- professional pathways for K-12 engineering educators,
- and the role of higher education in preparing engineering educators.
“This report proposes steps that stakeholders – including professional development providers, postsecondary preservice education programs, postsecondary engineering and engineering technology programs, formal and informal educator credentialing organizations, and the education and learning sciences research communities – might take to increase the number, skill level, and confidence of K-12 teachers of engineering in the United States.”
SHARE YOUR ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXPERTISE
We strive to share your engineering education outreach and research through ASEE member spotlights. Please submit your work to be Spotlighted using this form.
We are piloting an interactive map of PreK-12 engineering offerings. Please add your programs, camps, or events to this map.
Are you a specialist in P12 engineering education? Be sure to sign up for ASEE’s Specialist Program here.
Get involved in the Commission on P12 Engineering Education.
Share These Classroom Resources
When you are working with PreK-12 engineering educators, consider sharing the following resources:
P-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION STANDARDS FOR LEARNING
ASEE and Advancing Excellence in P-12 Engineering Education (AE3) proudly present a Framework for P-12 Engineering Learning. This free resource provides a vision & rationale for P-12 engineering learning, recommends teaching content for the study of engineering and engineering literacy, shines attention on diversity, equity, & inclusion in engineering learning, lesson examples, lesson plan template, and more.
CONNECT WITH OTHER ENGINEERING EDUCATORS & P12 CLASSROOMS
Engineering educators and parents are invited to Join our P12 Engineering Teachers and Parents Facebook group!
SAFETY IN P12 ENGINEERING CLASSROOMS & LABS
ASEE and ITEEA co-authored a FREE peer-reviewed eBook on safety considerations for grades PreK to 12 engineering instruction and engineering labs.
A panel from ASEE served as peer-reviewers for this resource. This is an excellent resource P12 educators, teacher educators working with P12 teachers, and higher education institutes to limit their liability and help advocate for the resources needed to provide safer engineering instruction in accordance with federal and state safety standards (ex. OSHA, NFPA, etc.). No cost, full resource is free to download.
GRANT MONEY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATORS
Check out the ASEE Pre-College Division’s Implement Engineering Grant opportunity and share it with your networks.
HOW TO DO ENGINEERING IN A P12 CLASSROOM?
STEM Leadership Alliance Webinar – Click here to watch a webinar on free resources that will infuse engineering into P12 classrooms.