Teacher In Service Program

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Teacher In Service ProgramEngineering in the
ClassroomThe RIO DE JANEIRO Experience

• CORDOBA 2008

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BRAZIL

• Overview of Brazilian Education System

• Basic Education 9 years (normally starting at
  the age of 6) Public Schools Municipality
• Medium Education 3 years - State (some Federal
  Schools, generally related to Universities)
• Also Technical Education
• Superior Education 5 years for Engineering
  Federal Government
• In all levels There is also a Private System

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BRAZIL

• Overview of Brazilian Education System
• Exam to enter in the University (Vestibular)
• At the moment Engineering courses are requested
  by many students due to the economic growing
• Courses like Law, Administration, Odontology and
  Communication are also very requested

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BRAZIL

• Recent Initiative
• Program to Promote and to Enrich Engineering
  (Programa de Promoção e Valorização das
  Engenharias - PROMOVE)

• Public Call MCT/FINEP/FNDCT PROMOVE
  Engineering in the Medium Education 05/2006
• Implementation of innovative projects to promote
  the interaction between Engineering Sciences and
  Medium Level Education ( 15-17 )

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2006-2007

• Boston (R1)
• Indianapolis (R4)
• Memphis (R3)
• Kuala Lumpur (R10)
• Cape Town (R8)

• Piura, Peru (R9)
• Student branch pilot
• Rio de Janeiro (R9)
• Baltimore (R2)
• Dallas (R5)

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TISP in Region 9

• 17-18 August de 2007
• Rio de Janeiro
• Hotel Sheraton ( Av. Niemeyer )
• Financially suported by IEEE EAB

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Reaching Region 9 members
Flyers in three languages
Article in NoticIEEEro
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Attendance
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Brazil

• 35 from Rio de Janeiro
• 10 IEEE members ( 3 GOLD )
• 21 pre-university educators ( 5 speakers )
• 3 university educators ( speakers ) over 17
  schools represented
• 1 concerned father ( Elect. Eng. )

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Build a better candy bag
Rotational Equilibrium
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Feedback

• Overall Program Rating 4.57/5 average 97 of
  the respondents rated the program either
  excellent or good

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Did we reach the objective ?

• How likely were you to work with
• teachers/students/schools/school systems
• prior to this training?
• Definitely 33 40.8
• Maybe 29 35.8
• No 4 4.9
• Not Answered 15 18.5
• Totals 81 100.0
• How likely are you to work with
  teachers/students/schools/school
• systems after coming to this training?
• Definitely 59 72.8
• Maybe 2 2.5
• No 0 0.0
• Not Answered 20 24.7
• Totals 81 100.0

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Joint work
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NEXT STEP

• Workshop in Rio de Janeiro at CEFET
• CEFET is a technology oriented Medium School
  (Federal)
• Has a Professional Master on Teaching of Sciences
  and Mathematics
• Has great iteration with other schools
• Takes part of a PROMOVE project
• The workshop is scheduled for October 4th
• Expected 80 participants