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Ensuring Your Class is Inviting to ALL
StudentsPamela Silvers and Jim Sullivan
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
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
When you think computer personwho comes to mind?
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
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
Resources
•Columbia University article
•Gender neutral terms
In the trenches
Gender Differences in Learning Styles
Venus MarsCollaborative, 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)
NC WIT10 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 freestandingtower 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
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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
Resources
•National Center for Women and Information Technology (ncwit.org)
• Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (iwitts .org)
Thank you for attending
Want more information
. . . let us know . . .
Pamela Silvers Jim Sullivan
828-398-7249 [email protected]
[email protected] 828-398-7343
