Engineering Graduates: The New Wave Of Teachers

Seen through the glasses of professional policy makers and educational reformers, K-12 math, science and technology education are scenes of fundamental and sweeping change. Broad national standards are establishing both the need for new pedagogies and strategies for implementing them. In all three fields, there is a consensus among experts that education should be relevant to problems in the real world and inquiryor design-based. According to these documents, both science and math education should emphasize applications to problems of technology, and technology education should be centered around analysis and problem-solving. 1