How can teachers get their students excited about careers in space exploration?
Well, little kids start being excited about space anyway – so it’s not difficult to excite people about space. The trick is to keep them engaged. Teachers want to teach exciting topics like space, because it helps them engage their students. But we have to make sure that we give them materials that are relevant to what they want to do and not just simply enrichment. Education today is driven strongly towards standards and performance testing. In the state of California in particular, we’ve got teachers that know very well that they are going to be evaluated personally or that their school is going to be evaluated based on test scores. So we have to be intelligent about the pressures the teachers are under and give them materials that are not supplementary, but go to the heart of what their students need to know and the skills that their students need to have. What kinds of learning opportunities do you see through the Internet? The Internet has made it possible for two things to happen
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