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Educators - Learn through Worplace Externships
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What is an Externship?
The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (RCNGM) is dedicated to helping educators
prepare the workforce of the future by not only giving them relevant
and current curriculum programs, but by giving them exposure to industry
practices that they might not otherwise have.
The RCNGM has developed a teacher externship program that brings both high school, technical high school and community college faculty into the workplace for four-weeks in the summer. Following their externship experience, teachers develop a work-based learning project for their students.
Preparing the next generation of workers to meet the expectations of
a highly technological workforce can be a challenge to educators. Often,
the demands of teaching within a set curriculum prevents educators from
broadening their students' knowledge of workplace requirements because
they, themselves, are unfamiliar with those expectations. By exposing
educators to business/industry environments, whether it be through teacher externships,
company visits, visiting lecturer, or collaborative work-based projects
in the classroom, educators are given the opportunity to infuse some
excitement into their classes. Educators
who participate in these kinds of professional development programs have an
opportunity to not only engage their students in more active learning
experiences, but to become part of those experiences themselves.
Larry Chapman is a CAD, civil engineering and architectural engineering teacher at Old Saybrook High School. He is participating in a four-week externship at Centerbrook Architects in Essex, CT to focus on residential and commercial architectural design. |
For more information about extership opportunities, please contact Mary deManbey, Program Manager, CBIA
Telephone: (860)-244-1900
E-mail: Mary.demanbey@cbia.com
The Regional Center
for Next Generation Manufacturing is funded through a grant from the
National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education program. Copyright
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