UT Tyler Leads in Training PLTW Teachers

TYLER — The University of Texas at Tyler led the nation this year in training new Project Lead The Way middle and high school teachers, UT Tyler President Rodney Mabry announced. University officials say PLTW teachers learn to teach engineering and technology courses in schools, thereby causing more students to choose engineering careers. “I am proud of UT Tyler’s full commitment to enabling more teachers to teaching engineering concepts and encouraging their students to pursue engineering in universities,” President Mabry said. The university had 243 participants who successfully completed training and will be qualified to teach PLTW engineering courses at their schools. UT Tyler offered two Texas Project Lead The Way Summer Training Institutes in 2010.