GSE/DIS Opportunities for Wisconsin Women in Science, Technology and Engineering

GSE/DIS 为威斯康星州女性提供科学、技术和工程领域的机会

• 批准号: 0533553
• 负责人: Susannah Sandrin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; DIS; Opportunities; Wisconsin; Women

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is offering Opportunities for Wisconsin Women in Science, Technology and Engineering (OWWSTE), a training program for secondary teachers and counselors in Wisconsin to increase awareness of gender bias in science and technology education, and to introduce educators to regional and national programs available to promising female students in science, technology and engineering.OWWSTE will provide teacher and counselor leaders with media (including an inspirational and informational video), instructional tools, and training that they can share with peers in their districts during in-service training sessions or at summer academies. Wisconsin has almost 70,000 teachers in 426 school districts. Many of these school districts are small and rural, such that students only have a choice of one high school and junior high. This project will target teachers and career counselors in secondary schools, a crucial age range when girl students lose interest and confidence in their abilities in science and math.Intellectual MeritOWWSTE will work closely with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the Wisconsin Science Network, and the Wisconsin Academy for Staff Development Initiatives (WASDI) to identify school districts that have a particularly low percentage of women taking upper level science, math and technology courses. Administrators in these agencies will also assist in identifying appropriate counselor and teacher leaders from school districts. Numerous faculty leaders from the University of Wisconsin System, particularly faculty who were trained by the NSF sponsored Women and Science Project, will also be involved with teacher and counselor training sessions.While Wisconsin has many active science and engineering programs geared toward girls and young women, many teachers and counselors are unaware of these valuable programs. The workshop and instructional materials funded by this program will focus on successful programs, particularly those easily accessible to students in the upper Midwest, and techniques for secondary educators to increase enrollment of women in upper level high school science and technology courses. Additionally, discussions with program leaders will demonstrate methods to avoid gender biases in science, math, and technology education. Finally, educators will become more aware of programs and techniques to introduce their promising female students to career paths that they had not imagined previously.Teacher and counselors will leave the summer workshop with the tools and information necessary to disseminate to train fellow educators in their districts. The training materials will provide detailed outlines of lesson plans for in-service workshops, and a video will include interviews with successful women scientists from Wisconsin, coverage of science, technology and engineering programs available to girls and young women in Wisconsin, and a discussion of gender-conscious pedagogy.Broader ImpactThis program has the potential to reach every secondary-level counselor and educator in Wisconsin because of its pyramidal structure and the portability of the program. Similar programs that have been implemented in other states have seen significant gains in female student participation and enrollment in STEM courses. This program will be evaluated by surveys of female senior and juniors at participating high schools related to their career goals. An increase of 10% of female student declaring an interest in majoring in science, engineering or technology will be considered a success for this program.

威斯康星大学奥什科什分校正在为威斯康星州女性科学、技术和工程 (OWWSTE) 提供机会，这是一项针对威斯康星州中学教师和辅导员的培训计划，旨在提高对科学和技术教育中性别偏见的认识，并向教育工作者介绍区域以及为科学、技术和工程领域有前途的女学生提供的国家计划。OWWSTE 将为教师和辅导员领导者提供他们可以分享的媒体（包括励志和信息视频）、教学工具和培训在在职培训课程或暑期学院期间与所在地区的同行进行交流。威斯康星州在 426 个学区拥有近 70,000 名教师。许多学区规模较小，而且是农村地区，学生只能选择一所高中和初中。该项目将针对中学教师和职业顾问，这是女生对自己的科学和数学能力失去兴趣和信心的关键年龄范围。Intelligent MeritOWWSTE 将与威斯康星州公共教育部、威斯康星州科学网络和威斯康星州公共教育部密切合作。威斯康星州员工发展倡议学院 (WASDI) 确定参加高级科学、数学和技术课程的女性比例特别低的学区。这些机构的管理人员还将协助从学区物色合适的辅导员和教师领导。威斯康星大学系统的许多教师领导，特别是接受过美国国家科学基金会资助的妇女与科学项目培训的教师，也将参与教师和辅导员培训课程。威斯康星州有许多针对女孩和年轻女性的活跃科学和工程项目，许多教师和辅导员并不知道这些有价值的项目。该计划资助的讲习班和教学材料将重点关注成功的项目，特别是那些中西部北部学生容易获得的项目，以及中等教育工作者提高高中科学技术课程女性入学率的技术。此外，与项目负责人的讨论将展示避免科学、数学和技术教育中性别偏见的方法。最后，教育工作者将更加了解向有前途的女学生介绍她们以前从未想象过的职业道路的计划和技术。教师和辅导员将在夏季研讨会结束时携带必要的工具和信息，以传播培训其所在地区的教育工作者。培训材料将提供在职讲习班课程计划的详细纲要，视频将包括对威斯康星州成功女科学家的采访，对威斯康星州女孩和年轻女性可用的科学、技术和工程项目的报道，以及对性别意识教育学。更广泛的影响该计划有潜力惠及威斯康星州的每一位中学辅导员和教育工作者，因为它的金字塔结构和该计划的可移植性。其他州实施的类似计划在女学生参与和 STEM 课程注册方面取得了显着进展。该计划将通过对参与高中的女性高年级和低年级学生与其职业目标相关的调查进行评估。表示对科学、工程或技术专业感兴趣的女学生增加 10% 将被视为该项目的成功。