Externships in STEM workplaces offer a professional development opportunity, which connects educators with STEM-related employers to gain industry experience. The STEM Education Center at WPI is interested in adding an externship program to its professional development offerings for secondary school teachers in central Massachusetts. We interviewed middle and high school STEM teachers, industry representatives, and other externship organizers and used their perspectives to recommend a pilot externship program design to the STEM Education Center.

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Creator

• Berwanger, Michael
• Biando, Michael J.
• Tomer, David L.
• Washock, Ethan
• Hunt, Tyler R.

Subject

• Learning
• Project-Based Learning
• Industry
• Community
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 24091
• E-project-051221-153511

关键词

• professional development
• teachers
• education
• secondary school
• externship
• STEM

Advisor

• Demetry, Chrysanthe
• Vaz, Rick

Year

• 2021

Center

• Thessaloniki, Greece Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• The STEM Education Center at WPI

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2021-05-12

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright