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Teacher In Service Program

“Engineering in the Classroom”

The RIO DE JANEIRO Experience

CORDOBA 2008

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BRAZIL

Overview of Brazilian Education System

•Basic Education – 9 years (normally starting at the age of 6) – Public Schools – Municipality •Medium Education – 3 years - State (some Federal Schools, generally related to Universities)Also Technical Education•Superior Education – 5 years for Engineering – Federal Government

In all levels – There is also a Private System

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BRAZIL

Overview of Brazilian Education System

Exam to enter in the University (Vestibular) At the moment Engineering courses are

requested by many students due to the economic growing

Courses like Law, Administration, Odontology and Communication are also very requested

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BRAZILRecent Initiative

Program to Promote and to Enrich Engineering (Programa de Promoção e Valorização das Engenharias

- PROMOVE)

•Public Call MCT/FINEP/FNDCT – PROMOVE – Engineering in the Medium Education 05/2006

Implementation of innovative projects to promote the interaction between Engineering Sciences and Medium Level Education ( 15-17 )

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2006-2007

Boston (R1)

Indianapolis (R4)

Memphis (R3)

Kuala Lumpur (R10)

Cape Town (R8)

Piura, Peru (R9) Student branch pilot

Rio de Janeiro (R9)

Baltimore (R2)

Dallas (R5)

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TISP in Region 9

17-18 August de 2007 Rio de Janeiro Hotel Sheraton ( Av. Niemeyer )

Financially suported by IEEE EAB

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Reaching Region 9 members

Article in NoticIEEEro

Flyers in three languages

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Attendance

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Brazil

35 from Rio de Janeiro

10 IEEE members ( 3 GOLD )

21 pre-university educators ( 5 speakers )

3 university educators ( speakers ) over 17 schools represented

1 concerned father ( Elect. Eng. )

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Build a better candy bag

Rotational Equilibrium

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Feedback

Overall Program Rating 4.57/5 average 97 % of the respondents rated the program either “excellent” or “good”

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Did we reach the objective ?How likely were you to work with teachers/students/schools/school systems prior to this training?

# %Definitely 33 40.8Maybe 29 35.8No 4 4.9Not Answered 15 18.5Totals 81 100.0

How likely are you to work with teachers/students/schools/school systems after coming to this training? # %

Definitely 59 72.8Maybe 2 2.5No 0 0.0Not Answered 20 24.7Totals 81 100.0

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Joint work

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NEXT STEP

Workshop in Rio de Janeiro at CEFET CEFET is a technology oriented Medium

School (Federal) Has a Professional Master on Teaching of

Sciences and Mathematics Has great iteration with other schools Takes part of a PROMOVE project The workshop is scheduled for October 4th

Expected 80 participants