Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2024

Publication Title

Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference

Pages

1684-1693

Conference Name

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, March 25-29, 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada

Abstract

Preservice teachers (PSTs) in an educational foundations course were tasked with leading elementary students in an engineering design challenge. In order to explore different approaches for helping the PSTs develop competence in engineering education, two implementation methods were tested. In Spring 2022, PSTs collaborated with undergraduate engineering students to develop carnival-themed design challenge lessons. In Fall 2022, PSTs worked with their PST classmates to teach a professionally prepared engineering lesson focused on designing plastic filters. PSTs’ knowledge of engineering and engineering pedagogy were compared across the two semesters using an exploratory approach. Both groups showed increases in engineering knowledge and engineering pedagogical knowledge. Item-level differences suggest unique benefits to each approach providing insight for teacher educators designing interventions to help prepare PSTs to integrate engineering into elementary education.

Rights

Copyright by AACE. Reprinted from, with permission of AACE (https://aace.org).

ORCID

0000-0003-4348-7798 (Pazos), 0000-0002-9339-7574 (Gutierrez), 0000-0002-5675-5045 (Rhemer), 0000-0003-3376-0252 (Ringleb), 0000-0002-1453-2353 (Cima)

Original Publication Citation

Kidd, J., Pazos, P., Gutierrez, K., Rhemer, D., Ringleb, S., Kaipa, K., Kumi, I., Ayala, O., & Cima, F. (2024). From carnival games to plastic filters: Preparing elementary preservice teachers to teach engineering. In J. Cohen & G. Solano (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1684-1693). Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/224194/

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