Learn to produce dynamic programs with this practical guide!

Finally, a step-by-step guide to maximize your efforts and create the kinds of learning experiences participants will rave about. Designed for first-time as well as veteran event planners, this practical hands-on guide is full of concrete strategies, tips, and suggestions for creating dynamic events. Highlights include:

• Nine principles of effective meeting designers
• Key issues in site and date selection
• Strategies for designing audience-centered programs
• Marketing for optimal participation
• Managing the conference for effectiveness
• Collecting data and evaluating results

Bring a whole new world of technology education into every classroom! We live in a world where technological advances happen daily. But technology is more than computers and electronic devices. Technology encompasses every man-made creation that meets human needs, even a pencil or a book. Technology education helps students design and make improvements in the designed world around us, such as transportation systems, manufacturing, and biotechnology, as well as many other fields. This must-have guide is the first independent review of curriculum materials for technology. In Bringing Technology Education Into K-8 Classrooms, authors Edward Britton, Bo De Long-Cotty, and Toby Levenson provide a practical guide to the latest technology textbooks and integrated resources (including technology and supplementary resources), and descriptions of more than 100 informal resources. The guide fully describes the strengths and weaknesses of each individual product's features by analyzing the technology topics covered, types of technology design activities, assessment strategies, types of teacher support, and much more. Bringing Technology Education Into K-8 Classrooms includes: - An introduction to technology education and its importance for students today - Complete information for choosing technology resources that meet district and classroom needs - Practical analysis of how technology topics address standards - Helpful tips on how technology activities help students understand a design process Featuring easy-to-follow plans and sample pages from major products, this resource will help all students to become technologically literate!

Learn to produce dynamic programs with this practical guide!

Finally, a step-by-step guide to maximize your efforts and create the kinds of learning experiences participants will rave about. Designed for first-time as well as veteran event planners, this practical hands-on guide is full of concrete strategies, tips, and suggestions for creating dynamic events. Highlights include:

• Nine principles of effective meeting designers
• Key issues in site and date selection
• Strategies for designing audience-centered programs
• Marketing for optimal participation
• Managing the conference for effectiveness
• Collecting data and evaluating results

A resource guide to curriculum materials that incorporates workplace experiences in science, mathematics, and technology education.

Engage students through real-world curriculum

It?s no accident that employers complain that newly minted graduates are out of touch with the realities of work demands! Too often, there is a disconnect between what is taught in the classroom and what is demanded in the workplace, and students suffer the consequences. Mathematics and science curricula can play a critical role in solving this dilemma.

In this comprehensive review of 23 exemplary curricula/programs, the authors offer an easy-to-use guide for tying curriculum to workplace experiences?from a hematology laboratory to an agricultural setting to a soda bottling company?these programs illustrate concrete real-life situations to which students can relate and derive motivation.

Learn how to:

• Meet the goals of science, mathematics, and technology education
• Meet national curriculum standards
• Chart key characteristics of successful curricula
• Connect curriculum to workplace contexts
• Create your own curriculum materials

This book is a must for mathematics and science educators, curriculum developers and supervisors, and educators in school-to-work programs and vocational courses.