ATE Prelim. Proposal

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Preliminary Proposal (working draft)

Cover Sheet: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

This will be done by Chemeketa's grant office prior to submission (for the project grant).

Project Data Form: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

This will be done by Chemeketa's grant office and Mitch prior to submission (for the project grant)

Project Summary: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

Grant Notes: Key items to be clearly stated (these are allowed grant funding activities that seem to relate to this proposal)

• provide professional development as well as externships for college faculty and secondary school teachers;
• link educators and educational programs in two- and four-year institutions and secondary schools, and connect them to business, industry, and government;
• develop programs with a focus on technological education for prospective K-12 teachers that link two-year and four-year college programs;
• develop career pathways for technicians from secondary to two-year college programs and from two-year to four-year institutions.
• serve the needs of both first-time students and returning students and workers wishing to acquire new skills;
• adapt exemplary educational materials, courses, and curricula developed elsewhere including post-baccalaureate certificate programs;
• implement national science, mathematics, technology, and industry standards in education;

Project Description: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

Grant Notes for description:

• In preliminary proposals, the length of the Project Description is limited to 6 pages (single-spaced).
• It is expected that at least some aspects of both centers and projects will be sustained or institutionalized past the period of award funding. Being sustainable means that a project or center has developed a product or service that the host institution, its partners, and its target audiences want continued. To be sustainable is to ensure a center's or project's products and services have a life beyond ATE funding

Description bullet points

• Compilation of curricula from national best practices
  
  • References to "CS Unplugged", "Exploring CS" and NSDL search

• Professional development
  • Include discussion of SOA/TechStart SuperQuest with the grant sponsoring SuperQuest sessions on the CS Program of Study and Curriculum resources.

• Professional development community
  • Include discussion of grant support for the of development of a digital library/repository for the CS program of study and curriculum materials to be done and hosted on the OCSTA professional development communities web site.

• Incentives for teachers: credit, stipends, ...

• Programs of study
  
  • Include info on new direction of AP Computer Science course and Oregon Discrete Math course as part of the direction for a CS program of study.

• Marketing to teachers, administrators, students

References Cited: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

Biographical Sketches: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

Budget: See description under Full Proposal Instructions

In preliminary proposals, budgets for subawards are not required.