GSE/DIF: Fast-Track Math for Women

智力优势：女性快速通道数学（FTMW）是一个培训培训员计划，将培养一批数学教育工作者，他们既要提高对STEM领域性别平等的认识，又要具备实施成功的数学干预计划的知识。 FTMW旨在认证一组核心教师成为FTMW管理员，他们反过来将培训其他教师在其地理位置管理FTMW计划。 该项目将把快速通道数学教学以及一个独特的课程部分，STEM中的性别平等（GES）转化为专业质量的“可传播”材料：12个基于网络的Flash动画概念模块和附带的培训手册。在2010年夏天，多达5个FTMW管理员团队将接受培训，使用2009年课程的视频，强化新数学教学法的Flash动画模块，手册，学生进度管理软件和为期两周的现场实习。通过GES模块，FTMW应用了现有性别平等研究的结果，这些研究表明，FTMW等特别方案可以提高女孩和妇女对数学、科学和工程的兴趣和坚持。 该方案的性别平等单元的课程内容是由课程编制方面的性别问题专家制定的;数学方案是基于一项已有10年历史的行之有效的干预措施，其开发者是项目合作者之一。 根据2010-2011学年收到的第一批FTMW管理员的反馈，该计划将进行修改，以包括一个额外的组成部分，以培训能够培训未来FTMW管理员的新FTMW主促进者。更广泛的影响：FTMW推进性别平等研究的现有知识，以更广泛的从业者社区。该计划将证明，多学科的STEM教育方法可以非常有效。 FTMW有可能接触到成千上万的妇女和女孩，并训练她们必要的数学技能和信心，以坚持STEM学科，可能导致妇女人数的增加？STEM学科的招聘和保留率。 FTMW计划旨在使其能够在随后的几年中继续使用通过该赠款开发的材料，以在全国各地的教育场所培训FTMW管理员和主促进员。

Intellectual Merit: Fast Track Math for Women (FTMW), a train-the-trainer program, will create a cadre of math educators with both a heightened awareness of gender equity in STEM fields and the knowledge to implement a successful math intervention program. FTMW is designed to certify a core set of teachers to become FTMW Administrators, who in turn will train other teachers to administer FTMW programs in their geographic locales. The project will convert the Fast-Track Math teaching as well as a unique curricular segment, Gender Equity in STEM (GES), into professional quality, "diffusible" materials: 12 flash-animated, web-based concept modules and accompanying training manuals. In summer 2010 up to 5 teams of FTMW Administrators will be trained, using videos of the 2009 course, the flash-animated modules reinforcing new math pedagogy, manuals, student progress management software, and a two-week on-site practicum. Through the GES module, FTMW applies findings from existing gender equity research that indicate that special programs such as FTMW can increase girls' and women's interest and persistence in math, science and engineering. The curricular elements of the GES module of the program have been developed by a gender expert in curriculum development; the math program is based on a 10-year-old proven intervention, with its developer among the project collaborators. With feedback from the first cohort of FTMW Administrators received during the 2010-2011 academic year, the program will be modified to include an additional component to train new FTMW Master Facilitators capable of training future FTMW Administrators. Broader Impacts: FTMW advances current knowledge on gender equity research to a broader practitioner community. The program will demonstrate that a multidisciplinary approach to STEM education can be extraordinarily effective. FTMW has the potential to reach thousands of women and girls and train them in the necessary math skills and confidence to persist in STEM disciplines, potentially leading to an increase in women?s recruitment and retention rates in STEM disciplines. The FTMW program has been designed to enable it to continue in ensuing years to use the materials developed through this grant to train FTMW Administrators and Master Facilitators at educational sites across the nation.