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LARRY GOODMAN, PH.DD i r e c t o r o f S t r a t e g i c P r o g r a m m i n g ; C o - D i r e c t o r o f T h e C e n t e r f o r R e s e a r c h o n G i r l s , L a u r e l S c h o o l
LICIA KOVACHS c i e n c e D e p a r t m e n t C h a i r, L a u r e l S c h o o l
Shaping STEM Education for Girls:
New Research on How to Engage Girls in the STEM Fields
What the research tells us about shaping STEM for girls
Teach STEM with a Purpose
Promote Tinkering
Provide Role Models
Encourage Growth Mindset
STEM with a PURPOSE
STEM with a Purpose: L.A.B. Days
Primary School L.A.B. DaysLesson examples: • what makes a good habitat for animals• studying plants• discovering the food chain in pond and forest
ecosystems• measuring the impact humans have on ecosystems.
Primary Faculty observed• Students discussing, with impressive expertise, the species
of plants and animals in the area
• Students spontaneously creating
• Students inspired to write about nature’s details more descriptively
• Environmental stewardship becomes more meaningful
• Service leaning- clearing/mulching trails, identifying trees for younger students and visitors, hanging and filling bird feeders and weeding out invasive plants.
STEM with a Purpose: L.A.B. Days
STEM With a Purpose: Engineering in the Primary
Boston Museum of Science CurriculumThrough stories and real-world engineering
challenges, girls learn the engineering process
STEM With a Purpose: Engineering in the Primary
Projects include• wind turbine design• packaging design (shipping boxes using recycled materials)• simple machine toys design • testing the capacity of suspension bridges for crossing
rivers in Nepal.
STEM With a Purpose: Engineering for Olevolos
• Girls are more likely to engage with STEM initiatives that have a clear purpose
• Our girls engineer and build structures for the Olevolos orphanage in Tanzania
Due to materials and resources, many decisions had to be made “in the field”
Decisions made “in the field” were not always ideal
This year’s group plans to make improvements to the swing set
STEM With a Purpose: Engineering for Olevolos
Promote TINKERING
Tinkering Stations are in the Primary, Middle, and Upper School
We rotate activities on a regular basis
Best materials are often store-bought manipulatives
Promote Tinkering: Tinkering Stations
Promote Tinkering: Middle School Robotics
Dancing Queen — Robotics Challenge• CHALLENGE DETAILS:
Place your robot in the dance arena. Without having it touch the walls, have it twirl in a circle, go forward until it gets close to the walls, twirl again, and repeat. If it can twirl four times without hitting a wall, you have completed the challenge.
Provide ROLE MODELS
Famous Women of STEM Trading Cards
• 100 nominations from girls in grades K-12
• 3rd-7th graders interviewed for input• currently in use in grades 3-5
Providing STEM Role Models: Trading Cards
Providing STEM Role Models: Playing Cards
Famous Women of STEM Playing Cards
Encourage GROWTH MINDSET
Encourage Growth Mindset
Our learning is cultivated by our efforts and purposeful engagement
The bigger the challenge, the more we need to stretch
Essential skills to develop: self-efficacy, risk taking and resilience among others
Research indicates that a girl’s self-efficacy improves when modeling instruction is used.
All Physics courses at Laurel School are taught using modeling instruction
Encourage Growth Mindset: Modeling Instruction
Modeling instruction is a structured inquiry method that tasks students with developing models of the physical universe through experimentation.
Encourage Growth Mindset: Modeling Instruction
Standards Based Grading — SBG is a different way to look at assessment and reporting of knowledge to students. At Laurel, it consisted of two primary aspects:
• The course content was divided into clearly communicated learning goals which students were assessed on.
• Through continuous reassessment of the learning goals a student or teacher could track the areas of difficulty a student faced, the growth she showed and her level of retention.
Encourage Growth Mindset: Standards Based Grading
• Modeling Instruction Research: http://modeling.asu.edu/
• Positive Impacts of Modeling Instruction on Self-Efficacy, Vashti Sawtelle, Eric Brewe, Laird H. Kramer, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199
Department of Physics, Department of Teaching & Learning
• Mindset The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, PH.D
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