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妇女提供科学、技术和工程方面的机会（OWWSTE），这是一项为威斯康星州中学教师和辅导员提供的培训计划，旨在提高人们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为有前途的科学女学生提供的区域和国家方案，OWWSTE将为教师和辅导员领导人提供媒体（包括一个鼓舞人心的信息视频），教学工具和培训，他们可以在在职培训课程或夏季学院与他们地区的同行分享。威斯康星州在426个学区有近7万名教师。这些学区中有许多是小的和农村的，这样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，这个年龄段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段。智力MeritOWWSTE将与威斯康星州公共教育部密切合作，威斯康星州科学网络，以及威斯康星州员工发展倡议学院（WASDI）确定妇女参加高级科学、数学和技术课程比例特别低的学区。这些机构的管理人员还将协助从学区确定适当的辅导员和教师领导。来自威斯康星州系统的许多教师领导，特别是教师谁是由美国国家科学基金会赞助的妇女和科学项目培训，也将参与教师和辅导员培训课程。虽然威斯康星州有许多活跃的科学和工程项目面向女孩和年轻妇女，许多教师和辅导员不知道这些宝贵的计划。由该方案资助的讲习班和教材将侧重于成功的方案，特别是那些容易为上中西部学生所利用的方案，以及中学教育工作者增加妇女在高中科学和技术课程中的入学率的技巧。此外，与项目负责人的讨论将展示在科学，数学和技术教育中避免性别偏见的方法。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方案和技术。教师和辅导员将在夏季讲习班结束时获得必要的工具和信息，以便在他们的地区培训教育工作者。培训材料将提供在职讲习班课程计划的详细大纲，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妇女可获得的科学、技术和工程方案的报道，更广泛的影响这一方案有可能达到每一个中学-一级辅导员和教育家在威斯康星州，因为它的金字塔结构和便携式的程序。在其他州实施的类似方案在女学生参与STEM课程和入学率方面取得了显着进展。该方案将通过对参与该方案的高中高年级和低年级女生进行与其职业目标有关的调查来评估。宣布有兴趣主修科学、工程或技术专业的女生人数增加10%将被视为该方案的成功。