Puget
Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence
For
Educators/Professional Development
The
PSCME offers a series of professional development institutes for manufacturing
technology educators and trainers on how to use the PSCME modular curriculum
system. PSCME institutes are offered at various times throughout the year.
The Tri-Institute
Summer Conference
The cross-disciplinary Tri-Institute Summer Conference was jointly sponsored by
the organizations listed below. The goal was to share with K-12 and community
and technical college instructors how to use the Essential Academic Learning Requirements
(EALRs) and Skill Standards to develop curriculum and assessments.
Conference facilitators provided these instructors with curriculum and assessment
information at the beginning of the conference. Then, each instructor participated
in a 3 day intensive technical workshop in either Virtual Manufacturing or Wed
Design. On the final day, the instructors came together, broke into small groups
and created presentations demonstrating how they would apply EALRs and Skill Standards
in their classrooms.
The Tri-Institute scheduled a follow up meeting on Saturday, March 22, 2003. Instructors
working towards University of Washington Extension credit (to clarify w/ Tom Stoebe)
were required to attend. These instructors presented an oral report describing
the module they developed with information gathered at the summer session. The
presentations included how the module was trial tested and evaluated. Instructors
also submitted information in a concise written report.
Those not earning credit were not required to attend, however, they were welcome
to deliver a presentation as well.
The Tri-Institute Summer Conference was made possible through the combined efforts of the:
• Puget Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence (PSCME),
• Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI),
• National Science Foundation (NSF),
• Educator-to-Educator IT Institute (E2E),
• Bellevue Community College (BCC);
• Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC);
• National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET);
• Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME);
• Enhancement of Materials Technology for Manufacturing (Edmonds Community College); and the
• State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
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