Three training meetings spaced evenly across a semester can be Curriculum Feedback Meetings. During the meeting directly before the Curriculum Feedback Meeting (probably towards the end of it), co-teacher partners meet for an opportunity to do some work related to their class for at least 15 minutes (such as filling out curriculum documents or responding to engineering notebooks) which includes identifying specific feedback questions they would like to discuss with mentors and/or other outreach ambassadors. Mentors are professionals with expertise in skills and knowledge surrounding engineering education and outreach who are familiar with the program and available to share input with outreach ambassadors. Feedback questions specifically for the mentor should leverage the mentor’s expertise. Outreach ambassadors send these feedback questions to their mentors, who should have access to relevant curriculum/activity documents.
The next training is the Curriculum Feedback Meeting, where mentors are present. With 1 mentor per group including maximum 3 co-teaching pairs, use the first 45 minutes for pair/mentor meetings. Discuss the feedback solicited at the end of the previous meeting during this mentor meeting. The rest of the time (of that first 45 minutes) is time for work related to individual classrooms (notebooks, implementing feedback, curriculum planning), while mentors meet with other pairs in the group. After the mentor has met with all pairs, the last 15 minutes of the meeting are a group discussion among the 2-3 pairs including the mentor, sharing and workshopping new ideas that arose from the feedback sessions.
STOMP Notebooks 