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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

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Ensuring Your Class is Inviting to ALL Students

Dawn Wick Pamela Silvers Jim Sullivan Rachael Tipton

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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

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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

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Intentional Unintentional Inviting Uninviting

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Have Female Role Models

Presentations

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Have Female Role Models

Presentations
Books

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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

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New Kit

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Have Female Role Models

Presentations
Books
Classroom environment - bulletin boards

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Look like an Engineer

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Have Female Role Models

Presentations
Books
Classroom environment - bulletin boards
Language

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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

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Resources

Columbia University article
Gender neutral terms

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In the trenches

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Gender Differences in Learning Styles

Venus Mars

Collaborative, group work Heavy competition Primary Motivator: Contextual, hands on, what will it be used for Primary Motivator: Fascinated with the 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)

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NC WIT 10 Ways Brochures

Humanize project
Encouragement
Grades – Perception
Language – Rebar

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Learn by Doing

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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

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Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

Planning period (important to females)
Group dynamics
Skill set learned

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Creating Groups

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

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“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

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Do you have anything to put in the boxes?

Intentional Unintentional Inviting Uninviting

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Resources

National Center for Women and Information

Technology (ncwit.org)

Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and

Science (iwitts .org)

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Thank you for attending

Pamela Silvers 828-398-7249 pamelajsilvers@abtech.edu