Ensuring Your Class is Inviting to ALL Students Dawn Wick Pamela - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Ensuring Your Class is Inviting to ALL Students Dawn Wick Pamela Silvers Jim Sullivan Rachael Tipton

NSF ATE Grant (History) • Skilled Workers Get Jobs: Recruiting Women and Retaining ALL Students (2012-2015) -- $199,896 • Skilled Workers Get Jobs 2.0: Appalachian Impact (2015-2018) -- $900,000

Assumptions • Each of us is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) • Each of us wants our students to be successful • None of us want to disenfranchise students • Each of us wants to improve

Intentional Unintentional Inviting Uninviting

Have Female Role Models • Presentations

Have Female Role Models • Presentations • Books

Book - Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice • Written by Professors R. Frederick Becker, James S. W. Wilson, and John A. Gehweiler in 1971 • Emphasized surface anatomy, embryology, and radiographic anatomy • Used sexually suggestive and "cheeky" comments about women; small fraction of illustrations were stylized • Posed female nude photographs purchased from California photographer Peter Gowland

New Kit

Have Female Role Models • Presentations • Books • Classroom environment - bulletin boards

Look like an Engineer

Have Female Role Models • Presentations • Books • Classroom environment - bulletin boards • Language

Doctor locked out of women's changing room because gym automatically registered everyone with Dr title as male She asked staff for help and was outraged when they told her their security system had assumed she was a male because she had the title Dr. When she asked if the system could be changed she was told it couldn't and she would have to drop her title to gain entry. March 2015

Resources • Columbia University article • Gender neutral terms

In the trenches

Gender Differences in Learning Styles Venus Mars Collaborative, group work Heavy competition Primary Motivator: Contextual, hands on, Primary Motivator: Fascinated with the what will it be used for machine itself – size, speed etc. Problem solving highly valued Technology used highly valued How to help others Use the technology Adapted from Institute for Women and Trades (IWITTS.org)

NC WIT 10 Ways Brochures • Humanize project • Encouragement • Grades – Perception • Language – Rebar

Learn by Doing

Sample (PBL) Tower of Pasta “Construct the tallest tower possible using only the marshmallows and pieces of spaghetti.” • Do not open bag until instructed • 1 minutes to plan and 3 minutes to construct your tower • Create a design before you start building • Cut or break the materials as you wish • Prize will be awarded to the group who constructs the tallest freestanding tower which remains standing until measurement (3-5 minutes) • Measurement will be to the top of the highest marshmallow Timer

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) • Planning period (important to females) • Group dynamics • Skill set learned

Creating Groups • Determine what YOUR goal is • Random vs. planned groups • Avoid bias when creating groups • Activities – Make sure everyone gets the experience

“ “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ” Maya Angelou

Do you have anything to put in the boxes? Intentional Unintentional Inviting Uninviting

Resources • National Center for Women and Information Technology (ncwit.org) • Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (iwitts .org)

Thank you for attending Pamela Silvers 828-398-7249 pamelajsilvers@abtech.edu