Engineering workshops for K-12 schoolteachers

K-12 teachers' professional development workshops providing educational content standards-based engineering curriculum are offered every summer at the College of Engineering and Applied Science's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory on the CU-Boulder campus. A typical four-day workshop format engages teachers in mini-lectures and hands-on demonstrations, and integrates the design/build process. A written curriculum includes inquiry-based experiments to help the teachers be fully prepared to engage their students in active learning. Written feedback evaluations gauge the effectiveness and developmental appropriateness of all workshop materials. Practicing engineers and CU engineering faculty share their expertise with the participants and provide a real-world context for the academic content presented.