Table 1 Teacher interview participants (NYSED 2018)
From: NGSS-based teacher professional development to implement engineering practices in STEM instruction
Teacher | Primary teaching content area and level | Years of teaching experience | School district demographics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
District enrollment (2017-2018) | Enrollment by ethnicity | |||||||||
English language learners | Economically disadvantaged students | Black or African American | Hispanic or Latino | Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | American Indian/Alaskan Native | White | Multiracial | |||
New York State | 2,622,879 | 17% | 27% | 10% | 1% | 43% | 2% | |||
9% | 58% | |||||||||
Interviewed electrical engineering workshop participants | ||||||||||
 Pedro | Earth Science MS | 16+ | 6131 | 3% | 6% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 2% | |
1% | 10% | |||||||||
 Joseph | Physics HS | 11-15 | 4933 | 0% | 6% | 21% | 0% | 71% | 1% | |
2% | 9% | |||||||||
 Jack | Physics HS | 11-15 | 6144 | 1% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 81% | 2% | |
1% | 12% | |||||||||
 Lydia | Biology MS | 11-15 | 8657 | 14% | 32% | 3% | 0% | 46% | 5% | |
6% | 65% | |||||||||
Interviewed biotechnology engineering workshop participants | ||||||||||
 Sophie | Biology HS | 16+ | 18,903 | 9% | 84% | 2% | 0% | 3% | 0% | |
33% | 89% | |||||||||
 Richard | Biology HS | 16+ | 3373 | 2% | 7% | 1% | 0% | 88% | 1% | |
2% | 20% | |||||||||