5-Minute PD: Engineering Classroom Success
by Ben Owens | 1.10.18
As an engineer, my daily problems were inanimate objects like failing pumps and temperature controllers. As a teacher, my focus each day isn’t ‘problems.’ It’s people.
About the Author
Ben Owens
Ben Owens teaches math and physics at Tri-County Early College High School in Murphy, N.C. He was the recipient of the 2017 Bridging the Gap Distinguished Teaching Award in STEM Education by the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research, is a virtual community organizer for the Center for Teaching Quality, a 2014 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow, and a former member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Teacher Advisory Council. He is also the co-author of a soon-to-be-published book on how open source learning can transform education. Follow him on Twitter @engineerteacher.
