MPWG: Family Tools & Technology (FT2)

9553428 Chasek FAMILY TOOLS & & TECHNOLOGY （FT2）是一个针对女孩及其父母的课后项目，他们将合作解决问题（使用工具和建立模型），说明科学、技术和数学在课堂之外的世界中的重要性。这项建议是为了支持该项目的第二阶段：通过评价现有活动、材料和战略的有效性来评估项目是否准备好进行更广泛的传播。FT2的创建是为了让那些传统上处于技术经验边缘的女孩能够接触到工具和技术活动以及相关的职业。该计划旨在增加对科学技术感到兴奋的女孩（和男孩）的数量，并鼓励他们继续保持兴趣；鼓励父母成为女儿在科学技术方面努力的倡导者；培训教师提高女孩在解决问题和在现实生活中应用数学和科学概念方面的信心和能力。该项目针对的是处于教育发展关键时期的女孩，即青春期前，在性别角色定型之前。（在项目的第一阶段，由艾森豪威尔数学和科学教育基金于1992-94年资助，40名4-6年级的教师在一个课后项目中对240个家庭进行了原始技术活动的实地测试。）项目第二阶段的目标包括：(1)通过培训骨干教师掌握必要的促进、激励和科学、预工程和数学技能，让女孩（男孩）及其父母参与并鼓励他们参与技术实践项目FT2；(2)在12所城市、郊区和农村学校监督该计划，这些学校有不同群体的多数和少数民族女孩、（男孩）和他们的父母；(3)提供技术援助和进入FT2资源中心的机会，以加强和维持这些女孩、家长和教师对科学、技术和数学活动及相关职业的兴趣；(4)观察和评估项目（活动、材料、促进和激励策略以及职业组成部分）对参与者（女孩、她们的父母和老师）的影响和有效性。最终，希望FT2将成为一个全国性的家长参与计划，通过为女孩及其父母提供一个示范计划，提高对技术素养需求的认识，该计划可以在新泽西州制度化并传播到其他州。将制作一套多媒体教材（教师手册和视频），并设计和开展一个领导力学院，以培养一批FT2教师骨干，使其成为其他教师的培训师，以促进这一模式的传播。＊＊＊

9553428 Chasek FAMILY TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY (FT2) is an after-school program targeting girls and their parents who are to collaborate in problem solving activities (using tools and building models) that illustrate the importance of science, technology, and mathematics in the world beyond the classroom. This proposal is for support of the second phase of the project: an assessment to determine the project's readiness for wider dissemination by evaluating the effectiveness of the existing activities, materials and strategies. FT2 was created to make tools and technology activities and related careers accessible and exciting to girls who traditionally are on the margins of technological experience. The program seeks to increase the number of girls (and boys) who are excited about science and technology and encourage to their continuing interest; to stimulate parents to become advocates for their daughters' endeavors in science and technology; and to train teachers to promote girls' confidence and competence in problem-solving and in real life applications of mathematics and science concepts. The program targets girls at a critical time in their educational development, pre-adolescence, before sex role stereotypes are solidified. (During the first phase of the project, funded in 1992-94 by an Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education grant, 40 teachers, grades 4-6, field tested original technology activities with 240 families in an after-school program.) Objectives for this second phase of the project include: (1) involving and encouraging girls, (boys), and their parents in a hands-on technology program, FT2, by training a cadre of teachers in the necessary facilitation, motivation, and science, pre-engineering, and mathematics skills; (2) supervising the program in 12 urban, suburban, and rural schools, with diverse groups of majority and minority girls, (boys), and their parents; (3) providing technical assistance and access to the FT2 Resource Center to reinfor ce and sustain the interest of these girls, parents, and teachers in science, technology, and mathematics activities and related careers; (4) observing and evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the program (activities, materials, facilitating and motivating strategies, and the career component) on participants (girls, their parents, and teachers). Ultimately, it is hoped that FT2 will become a national parental involvement program, increasing awareness of the need for technological literacy by providing a model program for girls and their parents that can be institutionalized in NJ and disseminated to other states. A multimedia package (teacher's manual and video) are to be produced and a Leadership Institute is to be designed and conducted to prepare a cadre of FT2 teachers to become trainers of other teachers to facilitate dissemination of this model. ***