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How do the Ohio educational standards align with the Ford PAS curriculum?
NCME Holds Fall Ford PAS Ohio Training
The National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) hosted a professional development workshop over two weekends in November for eleven Ohio teachers from six Ohio schools:
- Akron Public Schools, Akron
- Franklin Local Schools, Duncan Falls
- Galion High School, Galion
- Springfield/Clark JVS, Springfield
- Tolles Career Center, Plain City
- Washington Local Schools, Toledo
These teachers join the initial twelve teachers who attended the training last summer from:
- Apollo Career Center, Lima
- Butler Tech, Fairfield Township
- Delaware Area Career Center, Delaware
- Lancaster City Schools, Lancaster
- Madison Comprehensive High School, Mansfield
- Plain Local Schools, Canton
- Upper Valley JVS, Piqua
The thirteen schools are the first to implement Ohio’s statewide adoption of the Ford PAS curriculum.
Ford PAS is an educational program commissioned by the Ford Motor Company Fund (the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company) and designed by the Education Development Center, Inc. as part of Ford’s efforts to engage and excite students in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. Ford PAS is an academically rigorous curriculum that provides high-quality interdisciplinary learning experiences. Students are challenged to improve their problem-solving, critical thinking, and communications skills through classroom activities that model real-world situations, and through partnerships with local businesses and institutions of higher education.
As the Ford PAS Ohio Resource Center, the NCME will provide annual training in Ford PAS implementation, as well as support for Ford PAS Ohio teachers throughout the school year. The NCME hosts a website and listserve for Ford PAS Ohio teachers and will be visiting each school to gather success stories as the program moves forward.
Funding for Ford PAS Ohio comes from the Department of Education (ODE) Career-Tech and Adult Education division through a $250,000 grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund. While the Ford PAS curriculum is currently being used in 95 sites across the country, Ohio is the first Ford PAS state affiliate in the nation.
“This partnership with Ford is a keystone for Ohio,” says Susan Tave Zelman, Ohio’s state superintendent of public instruction. “Partnerships between business and education are a necessity to ensure that students are ready to compete in the 2lst century global economy.”
More information can be found at www.fordpas.org and www.fordpasohio.org .
