Technical Teachers Classroom Resources
Business leaders want to employ individuals who can communicate problems and opportunities, work with a team members to improve processes and solve problems, gather appropriate information from various sources, understand their role in a project, manage individual and team projects efficiently and effectively, and understand their industry and business model.
The lessons and problems you’ll find on this site are designed to provide students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in a technical problem. Most of these lesson work best with smaller groups with individuals with varied skills and experiences. Teachers may want to vary the lesson depending on the ages of your groups. Students may struggle at first as they learn the practice of teamwork.
You may want to consider teaming up with academic teachers and have lessons span into the academic classroom.
We hope that the lessons you’ll find in the lesson plan section challenge students to apply their mathematical, reading, writing, reasoning, and communication skills. Many of the lessons are hands-on and require some basic materials, so it is important that you access the teacher resource pages when they are available. If you have a problem identifying or locating the materials listed, use the question/comment application to ask for assistance. Many of the lessons also suggest business partners. If you would like assistance identifying an individual from industry to assist with a lesson, use the question/comment application to make that request.
Individuals choose between alternatives based on their ability to imagine themselves in each alternative. One goal of using these lessons and problems as part of your instruction is to immerse students into technical experience where they can begin to imagine themselves in a technical career. Along with the lesson, teachers may want to engage students in a conversation about their reaction to the lesson and whether they could imagine a job that focused on the activities covered in the lesson.
Finally, we would like your feedback. After you have used a lesson in its original or modified state, we would like to hear how it went. We would like to practice a continuous improvement model so that teachers and students get the greatest return on their investment of time and energy.
Submit any of your own lessons that you think benefit students.
