[NMScience] Fostering Gender Equity in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Classroom online course

[Davis Lee]

IMHO:

 

Anna's post and/or the course it offers assumes secondary teachers need
to "favorably alter the gender-equality climate in their classrooms".
This is certainly the party line presented by colleges of education in
the late 80s. The ultimate "truths" do not seem clear any more, with
significant controversy about whether there is a "boy crisis" and if so,
what to do about it.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Davis Lee

WAN Administrator

Albuquerque Public Schools

 

505 830 6870

 

 

 

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
1-22-2006/0004264889&EDATE=

 

>From the above link:

 

"Boys in Every Demographic Are Falling Behind According to Almost Every
Key

Societal and Academic Metric; Problem May Lie in 'Biologically
Disrespectful'

                               Education System"

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR200604
0702025.html

 

 

>From the above link:

 

"The boy crisis we're hearing about is largely a manufactured one, the
product of both a backlash against the women's movement and the media's
penchant for continuously churning out news about the latest dire threat
to the nation."

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?_r=1&ref=educat
ion

 

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/attention-defic.html

 

http://www.educationsector.org/research/research_show.htm?doc_id=378705

 

 

 

 

From: science-bounces at lists.aps.edu
[mailto:science-bounces at lists.aps.edu] On Behalf Of Anna Garden
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:04 AM
To: Science Teachers' List
Subject: [NMScience] Fostering Gender Equity in the Science,
Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics Classroom online course

 

Six-Week Online Course for Secondary STEM Faculty, January 16 - February
27, 2009

Fostering Gender Equity in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Classroom is designed to help secondary teachers favorably
alter the gender-equity climate in their classrooms. The six-week course
provides an overview of recent research on girls' abilities and
preferences in technological learning environments and strategies for
promoting their interest in STEM fields. The course is conducted online
in an asynchronous, scheduled fashion--meaning that course participants
may interact with the material at any time, night or day, but must
complete assignments within a ten day timeframe in order to progress
through the course with the cohort group. Collaborative learning is
vital to the success of the experience.

Upon completion of the course, participants will understand the
underlying causes of gender inequity, recognize conscious and
unconscious bias, and be equipped to alter their pedagogy and initiate
programs aimed at recruitment and retention of young women in emerging
technologies. There is no charge to participate but space is limited.
Registration opens December 15 at this site.
http://genderequitycollaborative.org/workshops.php 

 

Best, 

Anna Garden

Program Specialist

SCME

University of New Mexico

800 Bradbury Drive SE, Suite 235

Albuquerque, NM 87106-4346

505-272-7150

 

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