Your Bridge to Engineering, 21st Century Skills and STEM Careers

Some say it doesn't take a rocket scientist to implement the engineering practices in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), but why not let one guide you through it? As an experienced K-12 educator and aerospace engineer who knows the challenges and joys of life in a K-12 classroom, I can help you integrate the engineering practices into your K-12 curriculum and teaching practice. I provide a wide selection of K-12 engineering education services customized to your specific needs.

In our work together, teachers will learn strategies for integrating learning objectives and instructional materials from multiple subjects. They will create engineering units that engage students and community partners. Teachers will be able to apply my approach to create all the engineering units they want and need. When teachers learn to think like an engineer, it eliminates the need to buy generic engineering units to meet the Next Generation Science Standards. Pricing depends on the service package we design together.

If you've puzzled over the NGSS engineering practices, tried off-the-shelf engineering units, and wondered how to adapt your existing curriculum for engineering, all to find out that none of it was quite right for your classroom and students, you know what it is like to find yourself overwhelmed and frustrated. This engineering professional development can change all of that.

Come join me LIVE for an experiential engineering event like none other! My events will move you from a place of frustration and confusion to a place full of creativity and confidence. You’ll go back to your classroom with proven ways to incorporate the engineering practices into your teaching.

Choose from the following popular experiences or work with me to design one according to your needs. Each can be customized to a partial, full, or multi-day experience and held at your location. Course credit for participants in multi-day experiences can be arranged upon request.

How Engineers Think and Work: Practical Strategies for Your Classroom

Do you wonder what engineers really do and how they do it? Learn to see your lesson plans through an engineer's lens and open up a world of possibilities for incorporating engineering practices into your teaching.

The Three Keys to Teaching Across the Curriculum with Engineering Practices

Do you wonder how you'll incorporate engineering practices, crosscutting concepts and the Common Core into your already crowded teaching day? Find out how you can use engineering to integrate these and your other curricular subjects.

Neurodiverse Learners and Engineering Practices: Creativity and Collaboration in Your Classroom

Engineering is a team endeavor. Learn how to capitalize on the neurodiversity of your students and develop their 21st century skills as they learn engineering practices. Explore career connections tailored to your students' individual strengths.

Engineering and Emotions: The Keys to Innovation

Experience neuroscience-based and developmentally attuned strategies for boosting your students' social and emotional skills as they engage in engineering practices. Learn the role emotions play in professional engineering and how you can use engineering practices to develop your students cognitively, emotionally, and socially.

Eight Steps to Creating Great K-12 Engineering Design Challenges

Experience an entire design internship rolled into a few fun days, guided by an engineer who is also a K-12 educator. Collaborate exactly as engineers do and take away an engineering unit tailored to your learning objectives, your community context, your students, and your opportunities for partnership inside and outside of your instructional setting.

If you and/or your colleagues feel you need more individualized help, phone or video coaching may be the perfect option for you. One-on-one or faculty group coaching can be just what you need to move you to the next level in your understanding and implmentation of engineering practices in your instructional setting. Let me join you or your professional learning community (PLC) to address your specific concerns and provide ongoing support and guidance.

I will travel to your location for face-to-face coaching, or you may schedule coaching sessions with me via phone or video chat. Two follow-up sessions per school group are included with any multi-day workshop registration. Course credit for a series of coaching sessions can be arranged upon request.  

Some say it doesn't take a rocket scientist to excite people about STEM education, but you can book one for your next event. I am available to bring my expertise, knowledge, and experience to your school or group for a private or public presentation. I have a distinctive ability to translate cutting edge concepts from various disciplines in science, engineering, neuroscience and education in an exciting and accessible way. I have been invited to address local and national organizations where I speak to groups of educators, parents, students, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and researchers. I will ignite your audience's excitement about invention, innovation and creativity with my enthusiasm for engineering and design in K-12 education. During an hour-long presentation or an entire day training, you won't be bored for one minute!

Do you need an external evaluator for your grant-funded K-12 STEM education project? I can provide on-site, remote, quantitative, and qualitative data collection and analysis services. Call or email to discuss your needs and pricing options.

Interested in booking these dynamic services?
If you have questions or would like to discuss pricing options for your Custom K-12 Engineering professional development and support package, please contact Dr. Ann P. McMahon by completing my contact information form, or by calling 314-956-9331.

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Dr. Ann P. McMahon

314-956-9331

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