Transcript Increasing the Participation and Completion of females in

Increasing the Participation and
Completion of Women in
Project Lead the Way
Mimi Lufkin
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Workshop Goals
• Identify root causes for why women are not
choosing to participate and complete
• Identify strategies for recruiting and
retaining women
• Explore recruitment and retention resources
• Identify methods and resources needed to
incorporate gender equity into the STI’s
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Workshop Agenda
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Root causes for participation
Strategies for recruitment
Small group session
Root causes for completion
Strategies for retention
Small group session
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Perkins Accountability Measure
• Increase the participation and completion of
students in nontraditional training and
employment programs
• Occupations or fields of work, including careers in
computer science, technology, and other emerging
high skill occupations, for which individuals from
one gender comprise less than 25 percent of the
individuals employed in each such
occupation or field of work.
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Root Causes for Participation
• Career guidance materials and practices
• Access to and participation in math,
science, and technology
• Instructional strategies
• Nontraditional role models
• Early exposure
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Root Causes for Participation
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Curriculum materials
Occupational choice
Self-efficacy
School climate
Student attitudes
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Root Causes for Participation
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Family demographic characteristics
Peer influence
Media representation
Wage potential
Social attitudes
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Root Causes Activity
• Place a sticker on the poster identifying the
two most common root causes that you have
observed for women entering Project Lead
the Way programs.
• Write any additional root causes that have
not been identified and place it on the
“other root causes” poster
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Review career guidance materials and
practices for gender bias and nontraditional
exposure and support
Am I a Fair Counselor
Destination Success, MAVCC
Guidelines for Identifying Bias in Curriculum
and Materials
Safe Schools Coalition
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Invite, involve and educate parents
Talented Girls Bright Futures
Publication by Project Lead the Way
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Conduct middle school programs
Minot Public Schools
Minot, North Dakota
Programs and Practices That Work
2005 Award Winner
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Provide role models and mentors
Girls E-Mentoring in Science, Engineering
and Technology GEM-SET
USDOL, Women’s Bureau
Engineer Girl
National Academy of Engineering
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Conduct targeted recruitment activities
Summer Camps
Cisco Gender Initiative Strategies
I am an Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Conduct pre-technical training programs
Rosies Girls
Northern New England Tradeswomen
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Collaborate with community-based
organizations
Operation SMART
Girls, Inc.
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Conduct professional development with
teachers at all levels
Generating Expectations for Student
Achievement
Graymill
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Strategies for Recruitment
• Implement and model gender-fair
institutional strategies
Checking Your School for Sexism
Destination Success, MAVCC
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Morning Breakout Session
• Breakout by your master teacher course group into
groups of 5-8.
• Use the worksheet provided
• Identify a recorder
• Identify strategies and resources needed for
integrating gender equity into the Summer
Institutes to help build the capacity of
PLTW instructors to increase the participation
of women in PLTW programs
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Root Causes for Completion
• Classroom climate
• Support services
• Student isolation based on gender
• Role models
• Instructional strategies
• Self-efficacy
• Spousal/significant-other/parental
support
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Root Causes Activity
In groups of 5
• Identify any additional root causes your
group thinks are missing on a blank card
• Rank the root causes by your groups sense
of their prevalence in PLTW programs
• Post the cards on the wall in that order
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Strategies for Retention
• Evaluate all school materials for gender
bias and positive nontraditional images
Gender Equity Tip Sheets
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Strategies for Retention
• Increase teacher and administrator quality
and equity-capacity through professional
development
The Equity Principal
Graymill
NAPE Professional Development Institute
May 1-4, 2006
Washington, DC
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Strategies for Retention
• Increase competence in diversity and
sexual harassment prevention
Gender Equity Tip Sheets
Tolerance.org
Southern Poverty Law Center
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Strategies for Retention
• Conduct nontraditional student support
groups and peer counseling
Computer Clubhouse
Boston’s Museum of Science
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Strategies for Retention
• Provide nontraditional role models,
mentors, and job shadowing
MentorNet
How to Plan and Facilitate a Job Shadowing
Experience
Destination Success, MAVCC
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Strategies for Retention
• Invite, involve and educate parents
Ways for Parents to Support Expanded
Occupational Options
Destination Success, MAVCC
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Strategies for Retention
• Provide a continuum of support services
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Tutoring
Child care
Transportation
Financial Aid
Books, Equipment, Tools, Clothing
Tuition
Modification of Curriculum, Equipment
Student/Teacher Aides
More
Strategies for Retention
• Invite, involve, and educate business
Cisco Systems, Inc. Gender Initiative
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Society of Women Engineers
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Additional Resources
• Women in Engineering Organization
• Women in Engineering Programs and
Advocates Network
• Women’s Engineering Society (UK)
• Groups Relating to Women in Science and
Engineering
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Additional Resources
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
P.O. Box 369
Cochranville, PA 19330
610-345-9246 phone
610-869-4380 fax
www.napequity.org
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Afternoon Breakout Session
• Complete your work from the morning
breakout session
• Report out STI strategies
• Turn in small group worksheets to
facilitator
• Complete post-evaluation
• Volunteer to participate in the Master
Teacher Trainers Group
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