GSE/DIF: Fast-Track Math for Women

智力优势：女性快速通道数学(FTMW)是一个培训培训者的计划，它将培养一支数学教育干部队伍，他们不仅在STEM领域具有高度的性别平等意识，而且具备实施成功的数学干预计划的知识。FTMW旨在认证一批核心教师成为FTMW管理员，这些管理员将培训其他教师在其地理位置管理FTMW项目。该项目将把快速数学教学和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个基于网络的动画概念模块和所附的培训手册。2010年夏季，将使用2009年课程的视频、强化新的数学教学方法的动画模块、手册、学生进度管理软件和为期两周的现场实践，对多达5个FTMW管理员团队进行培训。通过GES模块，FTMW应用了现有性别平等研究的结果，表明FTMW等特殊方案可以提高女孩和妇女对数学、科学和工程的兴趣和毅力。该计划的GES模块的课程要素是由一名课程开发方面的性别专家开发的；数学计划基于一个已有10年历史的经证实的干预措施，其开发人员是项目合作者之一。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，增加一个组成部分，以培训能够培训未来FTMW管理员的新FTMW大师辅导员。更广泛的影响：FTMW将目前关于性别平等研究的知识推广到更广泛的从业者社区。该计划将证明，STEM教育的多学科方法可以非常有效。FTMW有可能惠及数以千计的妇女和女孩，并培训她们在STEM学科中坚持所需的数学技能和信心，可能会导致STEM学科中女性S的录取率和保留率的提高。FTMW计划旨在使其能够在接下来的几年里继续使用通过这笔赠款开发的材料，在全国各地的教育站点培训FTMW管理员和高级辅导员。

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.