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

威斯康星大学奥什科什分校正在为威斯康星州女性科学、技术和工程专业(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项目，旨在提高人们对科技教育中性别偏见的认识，并向教育工作者介绍面向有前途的女学生的地区性和全国性项目。OWWSTE将为教师和辅导员领导提供媒体(包括励志和信息视频)、教学工具和培训，他们可以在在职培训期间或暑期学院与所在地区的同龄人分享。威斯康星州在426个学区拥有近7万名教师。这些学区很多都是小而乡村的，所以学生只能在一所高中和一所初中中选择。该项目将针对中学的教师和职业辅导员，这是一个关键的年龄段，在这个年龄段，女生对自己的科学和数学能力失去了兴趣和信心。智力价值OWWSTE将与威斯康星州公共指导部、威斯康星州科学网和威斯康星州员工发展倡议学院(WASDI)密切合作，找出参加高级科学、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寻找合适的辅导员和教师领导。威斯康星大学系统的许多教职员工，特别是由NSF赞助的女性和科学项目培训的教师，也将参加教师和辅导员培训课程。虽然威斯康星州有许多针对女孩和年轻女性的活跃的科学和工程项目，但许多教师和辅导员并不知道这些有价值的项目。由该计划资助的讲习班和教学材料将侧重于成功的项目，特别是那些对中西部北部的学生来说很容易获得的项目，以及中学教育工作者增加女性在高中科学和技术课程中入学的技巧。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，教育工作者将更多地意识到向他们的有前途的女学生介绍他们以前从未想象过的职业道路的计划和技术。教师和辅导员将带着必要的工具和信息离开暑期研讨会，以传播必要的工具和信息来培训他们所在地区的教育同行。培训材料将提供在职研讨会的详细课程计划大纲，视频将包括对威斯康星州成功的女科学家的采访，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，以及对性别意识教学的讨论。布罗德影响由于该项目的金字塔结构和项目的可移植性，该项目有可能接触到威斯康星州的每一名中级辅导员和教育工作者。在其他州实施的类似计划在女性学生参与和参加STEM课程方面取得了显着进展。这项计划将通过对参与高中的女性高年级学生进行调查，并与她们的职业目标相关来评估。对科学、工程或技术专业感兴趣的女生增加10%，将被视为该项目的成功。

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.