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Teaching Teachers about Supply Chain Management to Influence Students’ Career and Education Choices
Author(s) -
Gardner Leslie L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
decision sciences journal of innovative education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1540-4609
pISSN - 1540-4595
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4609.2013.00372.x
Subject(s) - trips architecture , supply chain , supply chain management , work (physics) , mathematics education , field (mathematics) , computer science , knowledge management , pedagogy , business , sociology , psychology , marketing , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , parallel computing , pure mathematics
Since teachers are influential in high school students’ career choices, enabling high school teachers to introduce educational and career opportunities in supply chain management is a viable strategy for reaching high school students about these opportunities. This article presents a pilot program of supply chain workshops to educate high school and middle school teachers and guidance counselors about the opportunities in supply chain management and logistics and to enable them to integrate supply chain concepts into their teaching. These workshops incorporate a mix of slideshows to introduce concepts, hands‐on activities to illustrate how the concepts work, and field trips and guest speakers to demonstrate concepts in real world applications.