Educational Initiatives
The Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop

	Calling All Volunteers! Help your local primary, middle or high school teachers introduce engineering and technology to their students. Support your local school system. Learn about materials and tools you can use.
Register and Attend The Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop Free for IEEE members, NETL employees and invited educators
23-24 October, 2009 at National Energy Technology Laboratory Cochrans Mill Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Teacher In-Service Program Training Workshop will help you and other volunteers improve the teaching of engineering and engineering design in local schools—primary, middle and high schools. You will learn how to conduct hands-on sessions for teachers of pre-university schools on engineering topics.  The teachers will then use these sessions on a regular basis with their own students. The workshop lasts one and a half days.  It provides you with examples of lesson plans and suggestions on how best to contact and work with pre-university schools.  You’ll learn how to manage effective TISP programs in your local communities.

Once you complete the workshop, you contact local schools in the months and years to come, and work with their teachers on lesson plans that demonstrate engineering and engineering design.  You can find examples of such lesson plans at the Try Engineering website.

The workshop begins Friday, 23 October, at 4:30 pm. Three hours of presentations are followed by a dinner at 7:30 pm.  Preview Draft Agenda [PDF-28KB].

The workshop continues Saturday, 24 October, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, including breakfast and lunch.  You’ll take part in hands-on presentations, a question-and-answer period, and discussions on such topics as: how to get started; costs and resources; how to make contact with local pre-university schools; and how to align a TISP activity with national education standards. 

This workshop is organized jointly by the National Energy Technology Laboratory, The Energy Lab, and the IEEE Educational Activities Board.

TO REGISTER
Please visit IEEE's Website and register by 16 October.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
Dr. Michael Nowak, NETL - Pittsburgh Education Coordinator, or
Yvonne Pelham, IEEE - Manager of Educational Outreach, + 1 732 562 5321