IT PEDAGOGY

From helping courseware developers and publishers align their curriculum to skill standards, to supporting faculty in developing classroom resources, E2E is devoted to providing pedagogical tools you can use to maximize teaching and learning opportunities in the IT classroom. We also provide support strategies for institutions planning to incorporate new technologies, such as .NET or commercial training from vendors like Microsoft and Prosoft into academic contexts.

The following gives you an overview of our projects and sample classroom materials from each that you can adapt for your own use.

Courseware and the Skill Standards
IT Pedagogy and Technology Planning through the Microsoft IT Academy
Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute
Whatcom County IT Skill Standards Aligned Curriculum Project
Washington Center for Information Technology Master Teachers Project

• Click here to see our list of soft skill competencies that an A+ technician should be able to demonstrate.
• Click here to see the list of skill standards a typical A+ course should cover.

E2E is the national program manager for the Microsoft Academies. Community colleges and high schools can join the academy and enjoy numerous benefits such as discounted textbooks. E2E is develops 2 seminars a year that support faculty in their delivery of Microsoft training. The "Teaching MOC/ALS in the Academic Classroom" seminar lays out a step by step approach to integrating these training materials into the classroom.

• View an excerpt of the seminar.
  

E2E manages the national IT faculty development institute sponsored by Microsoft known as Working Connections. Every year each institute offers 8 technical training tracks that support faculty to gain the most up-to-date technical knowledge they need to keep their educational programs competitive. Each institute also offers special sessions on Best Practices in IT Education.

Project Teaching in the IT Classroom

• Click here to view projects generously shared by our Washington State Institute Advisory Chair, Lisa Hendricks, that helps students practice developing and using documentation standards.
• Click here to see if your state is offering a Working Connections Institute this summer.

Assessing Soft or "Professional" Skills

Continuously businesses and employers tell us that soft skills make a difference in their recruiting and hiring decisions of our graduates. Apparently, we're doing our jobs arming students with the technical skills they need to be successful in the workplace but we need to add a few more helpings of practice in the soft or professional skills.

• Click here to see a research project and associated assessment rubric that helps students in an A+ course develop their professional skills.
• Click the icons below to see an excerpt of a presentation on the importance of soft skills made by Helen Sullivan at the Working Connections Institute at the Texas Institute last summer (2002).
   
• Check out this web article on the importance of soft skills: August 02 issue of Certification Magazine:
  http://www.certmag.com/issues/aug02/feature_thatcher.cfm

Other Curriculum Projects of Interest

3 teams of teachers have just completed their curriculum for this collaborative project between the NWCET, Washington state's OSPI and Whatcom County School-to-Work and Tech Prep. You can get complete curriculum at no cost by contacting Cindy Agnew at the OSPI.

View samples of the curriculum:

• Web Development (Click here)



• PC Hardware Support (Click here)
  


• Video Production
  
  Unit 1: Pre-Production (Click here)
  Unit 1 Handout (Click here)
  Unit 1 Assessment Rubric (Click the icons below):
   

25 IT instructors in the state of Washington are participating in a 3 year National Science Foundation grant to develop skill standards aligned, modularize, online IT curriculum. Faculty are required to participate in a variety of online activities to support them in developing this curriculum.

Click the links below to view an interview with a Boeing executive that was part of the Market Analysis stage of the skill standards alignment process.

Part 1 (10min 23sec)
Part 2 (5min 43sec)
Part 3 (3min 24sec)

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