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DeafTEC provides this page with a series of short videos interviewing teachers about their experience teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The teachers talk about deaf stereotypes, positive and negative experiences, and working with interpreters. Additionally, the videos provide viewers with...

"The Technology Gateway is an integrated, problem-based course of study that models the workplace through the use of industrial-type problems and student and faculty teams. Physics/technology, mathematics, and communications are taught concurrently in the context of solving six workplace-related...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this guide for teachers on preparing concrete. Some tips are included along with a graphic and a link to a video clip on making concrete.

This 28-page toolkit outlines a mentoring program at The Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland. The toolkit includes steps to a successful mentoring program, mentor and protege roles and responsibilities, and a draft of a mentoring agreement. 

This 8-page paper, provided by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, discusses teaching perspective free-hand sketching in engineering design courses. "This paper presents the development of a perspective-based sketching curriculum and the study of how this method compares to more...

This paper, from R.M. Felder and E.J. Dietz of North Carolina State University, and G.N. Felder of Stanford University, covers a study done of students in an engineering course, and how their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator affects their performance and attitudes in the course. A background of...

These presentation slides, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, discuss engineering notebooks and the Engineering Design Process Log (EDP). The EDP is intended to guide the engineering design process, including documentation and assessment. The evolution of engineering notebooks is discussed...

This 36-page paper, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses an electronic Engineering Design Process Log (EDP). This log is intended to guide the engineering design process, including documentation and assessment. This paper provides "a detailed description of the EDP log and...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about concrete. The class will design a concrete barge and determine what the barge's maximum cargo will be. The lesson will give classes the chance to learn to work with the component...

A cross-sectional survey of 798 high school science students showed that although female students may respond better to a female teacher’s classroom management, build reciprocal trust more with female teachers, and be more open to the pressure to learn from female teachers, in most instances the...