Engineering Module

by Jessica Wietharn·4 views·Updated Oct 12, 2021

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I felt like the articles we read were very enlightening
and very hit the nail on the head.
So my understanding of engineering has changed so much since
senior high school, me senior high school, me went into
business marketing thinking that I was going to design things
that were marketable to people and to make them marketable.
I'm little did I know that was engineering, I'm laughing
out loud because here I am 28 years old and
I am a teacher teaching engineering which is exactly probably
where I needed to be in college but I'm very
happy where I am.
Um my understanding now is that it's the design process.
Anything that is designed in our world is created by
some sort of an engineer.
So that's super exciting.
I would think that um including that in the classroom
can be as simple as making sure that weekly you
have some sort of um stem project or something in
the sense in there.
Like I do stem bell ringers um you know something
like that or even just following those NGS?
S standards.
I know some people are not quite moved over to
the N.
G. S.
S yet and so using those NGS s standards um
and hitting that engineer design would be really important and
I think just um having schools be flexible and once
again implementing those NGS?
S standards into their classrooms is going to be the
change that we need to see um and teachers coming
out and explicitly explaining what engineering is to my kids,
I was able to show them those graphics from that
printed article that I read, and so that was super
fun for them to be.
And you know, I asked him, hey, what do you
think this is?
And they, you know, they were able to see the
building, which is what we thought.
And so me redirecting that, I think it's just really
important.