WomenTech Educators Online Training Fellowship

Increase the Number of Female Students in your STEM Classes
Free Professional Development Funded by the National Science Foundation

Take advantage of this tremendous opportunity! Save travel time and money when you attend the NSF-Funded WomenTech Educators Online Training from the comfort of your own desk. Based on proven practices, the online curriculum includes the "best-of-the-best" of our strategies, culled from our 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and 20 years of success helping educational institutions recruit and retain female students in STEM programs. Our work was highlighted by NSF for showing significant achievement and program effectiveness.

Training Starts: February 16, 2015

Application Deadline: January 16, 2015 - or when sold out!

Start Your Application Today: Take a minute to submit an Intent to Apply

Note: Apply early as applications will be reviewed on a rolling admissions basis and the training fills quickly! The date you submit your Intent to Apply will be the start date on your application.

This fellowship is free for teams of 4-6 community college STEM educators. Preference will be given to teams connected with an ATE Project or Center.

Find out more

You Will Take Away:

• An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
• A retention plan for your program to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
• The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action, right away.
• Plus: A certificate of completion and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.

Schedule/Time Required:

Time period: Training starts February 16, 2015. 5 weeks for recruitment training, followed by 5 weeks on retention with a 1-week break in the middle. A brief orientation takes place the week of February 9, 2015.

Hours required: About 2-3 hours per week. This can include the time to start implementing your team's plan and seeing results, even while the training is happening!

Training format: Presentations, handouts & exercises online, available to watch and complete at your convenience each week.

Live question and answer training calls the weeks of March 16 and April 27.

Exclusive online community forum to connect with other training participants.

After the training: Follow-up support includes live calls with your trainer on plan development and implementation.

Archives: All calls and sessions recorded and emailed out the next day.

Who Should Attend:

College-based teams of 4-6 participants consisting of administrators, instructors, counselors and outreach staff from STEM programs where female students are underrepresented.

The Power of Teams:

Experience and research show that participating as a team sets you up to be successful and see results. Your team will communicate as a single voice during this program. While team members may watch modules individually at their convenience, the team joins together weekly to synthesize and apply the information into a group assignment. These assignments build to create full recruitment and retention action plans by the end of training.

Find out more about who should be on your team

What Past Participants Say About the WomenTech Educators Online Training:

"The WomenTech Educators Online Training has the potential to change the way you view your program. Important data is presented with passion and humor. I want you to know I have gained a great deal from the course. By the time you have a graduate degree and have worked in education for decades, most "professional development" is repetitive. I can honestly say that you have given me much to think about and that it will result in changes to my approach to course development."

~ Lauran Sattler, Department Chair, Computer Information Systems, Ivy Tech Community College, President's Award for Instructional Excellence 2007, Warsaw, IN

"We have the first three women in our Auto Technology Program and really want to make sure they succeed. After participating in the WomenTech Educators Online Training, we created additional open lab time for them, realizing they may need extra time to develop hands-on skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Two months into the course they are still with us. I learned so much about retention from the online training, I decided our entire Engineering and Technology Department could benefit and we are bringing the online training to our school and rolling it out to all of the technical faculty over the next two years."

~ Van Madray, Dean, Construction and Industrial Technology Division, Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC

"The online training was very manageable because it was asynchronous. I'm always teaching an overload, but you watch the training videos at your leisure, and participate as you're able. Because of that I was able to integrate the training into my very busy schedule."

~ Dr. Cynthia V. Marcello, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, NY

Find out more and apply for the WomenTech Educators Online Training Fellowship: www.iwitts.org/nsf-online

Questions:

For specific questions, contact us at seminars@iwitts.org or call Christine Lesaca, Program Assistant, at 510-749-0200 ext 105.

IWITTS Deal of the Month: STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography

Get instant access to off-the-shelf materials to excite and engage women and girls in STEM


Deal of the Month: Save 25%
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Single User License: $35 $26
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This month, we are excited to bring you the STEM Resources Bibliography. It's not that easy to find off-the-shelf materials for recruiting and retaining women and girls in STEM, especially free resources. As a busy educator, you just don't have the time to spend hours doing internet research on classroom activities that will appeal to female learning styles, or on identifying female role models and associations.

That's why we created a bibliography that does this research for you. The best part is it's a downloadable book with clickable hotlinks that bring you directly to the websites for these primarily free resources.

Download the bibliography for instant access to these resources.

The bibliography includes links to:

• Free videos with female role models in trades, technology and science careers 
• Online resources for finding female role models and e-mentors 
• Sample curriculum and tools for teaching to female learning styles 
• Websites designed for girls and women interested in trades and technology 
• Out-of-school and summer programs for girls in STEM 
• Online communities for girls, women and educators in STEM 
• How to find gender-segregated occupational data in your state 

Sample Entries:
Each entry in the bibliography includes a link to the online resource, a quick summary of what you'll find if you follow the link, and helpful categories such as school level, program area, and audience.



Bibliography Table of Contents:

I. Engaging women and girls in STEM education

a. Recruitment and outreach collateral & posters

b. Websites to share with female students and the parents of girls

c. Retention resources for educators teaching women and girls

d. General tools and retention resources for STEM educators


II. Finding female role models in trades, technology & science

a. Women's national and state associations

b. Videos of female role models


III. Social media online communities

a. Online communities for women

b. Online communities for girls

c. Online communities for educators


IV. Out-of-School and summer STEM programs for girls

V. Career support for women in trades, technology & science

a. Websites with career information for women

b. Education, labor market, and salary statistics

Get more information on the STEM Resources Bibliography

Download for your whole school or district:

This bibliography could be helpful for every science, technology, engineering, and trades educator in your school, or even in your district or region. Save significantly over ordering individual licenses when you order a: 1) School Wide/Institutional License; 2) Regional/School District License; or 3) State-Level License (contact us for a State-Level License). Simply choose which license you prefer during check out. if you are interested in a state-wide license.

Find out more about providing the Bibliography to your school, region or state

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IWITTS Deal of the Month: STEM Resources Bibliography & Women in Technology Outreach Kit Package

Get a combo-package of instantly downloadable tools to make a powerful difference in increasing the number of female students in your STEM programs!

Deal of the Month: Save 25% Save now until July 31, 2014  Order the STEM Resources Bibliography & Outreach Kit Package and Save! Single License Package: $185 $139 School/ Institutional Package:$1198 $898 Regional/ School District Package: $2348 $1761 State-wide License: Contact us Use code JULY25 at checkout

The Women in Technology Outreach Kit will help you recruit more women and girls to your STEM programs with fill-in-the-blank templates for proven outreach materials.

  

The STEM Resources Bibliography will help you find the female role models that will make your outreach materials irresistible! Plus, the Bibliography includes classroom activities that will appeal to female learning styles, free videos of female role models, and much more.

  

Together, this powerful combination of downloadable tools will help you recruit women and girls to your STEM classes, and keep them engaged throughout their STEM programs!

"For a long time, we heard from educators, 'Well, we can't find any girls who WANT to be welders'- but now, there's an increased perception that supporting female students in male-dominated careers is a much bigger deal, and there are resources available that can give all students a better ability to explore and pursue their interests. IWITTS materials like the STEM bibliography and Outreach Kit are a huge part of the resources we can offer to districts to help them serve their students. It's not just about Perkins compliance anymore." ~ Don Levine, CTE Education Specialist, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

  

Download the STEM Resources Bibliography & Women in Technology Outreach Kit Package

 

About the STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography

It's not that easy to find off-the-shelf materials for recruiting and retaining women and girls in STEM, especially free resources. As a busy educator, you just don't have the time to spend hours doing internet research on classroom activities that will appeal to female learning styles, or on identifying female role models and associations.

That's why we created a bibliography that does this research for you. The best part is it's a downloadable book with clickable hotlinks that bring you directly to the websites for these primarily free resources.

  

The STEM Bibliography includes links to:

• Free videos with female role models in trades, technology and science careers
• Online resources for finding female role models and e-mentors
• Sample curriculum and tools for teaching to female learning styles
• Websites designed for girls and women interested in trades and technology
• Out-of-school and summer programs for girls in STEM
• Online communities for girls, women and educators in STEM
• How to find gender-segregated occupational data in your state

Sample Entries:

  

Each entry in the bibliography includes a link to the online resource, a quick summary of what you'll find if you follow the link, and helpful categories such as school level, program area, and audience.

  

 

 

Bibliography Table of Contents:

I. Engaging women and girls in STEM education

a. Recruitment and outreach collateral & posters

b. Websites to share with female students and the parents of girls

c. Retention resources for educators teaching women and girls

d. General tools and retention resources for STEM educators

  

II. Finding female role models in trades, technology & science

a. Women's national and state associations

b. Videos of female role models

  

III. Social media online communities

a. Online communities for women

b. Online communities for girls

c. Online communities for educators

  

IV. Out-of-School and summer STEM programs for girls

  

V. Career support for women in trades, technology & science

a. Websites with career information for women

b. Education, labor market, and salary statistics

Check out the STEM Resources Bibliography 

  

About the Women in Technology Outreach Kit

 

It isn't easy to develop outreach materials to recruit women to STEM! To help you we have developed these easy to use templates for a Women in STEM brochure for your program, a recruitment presentation, a flyer that describes your program and has a picture of a female role model, and a Women in STEM section of your school's website.

  

information from your school's programs and then we've done the work for you! Plus, you receive immediate delivery when you order this downloadable product.

What you get with the Women in Technology Outreach Kit and Online Strategy Guide:

The Women in Technology Outreach Kit includes templates and samples such as:

Recruitment flyer template:

Brochure template:

PowerPoint template:

All products and strategies are based on best practices from the eight colleges in the successful NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project.

• Female Role Model Questionnaire: Learn exactly what to ask role models to develop an outstanding biography or video interview that will excite and engage female students in STEM.

• Role Model Photo and Quote Guidelines: Learn how to obtain an inspirational quote and photo from female role models.

• Program Information Worksheet: We've identified for you what females students are looking for when they choose a program. Give them the information they need to decide to pursue your STEM classes!

• Web Page Guides and templates: Websites are now the number one place that students look for information about their college choices. Encourage female students to consider your program with a Women in STEM website section, or incorporate the information into your school's existing web page.

Outreach Kit Includes: 

• Customizable Templates and Samples: 1) Recruiting Women to STEM Brochure, 2) Tear-Off Flyer with program contact information, and 3) Women in STEM Career Event Flyer.

• Women in STEM Recruitment PowerPoint presentation: Use the slide templates and samples to create a recruitment presentation that will encourage female students to enroll in your
  STEM program.

• Sample Recruitment Email: See an example of a recruitment email that was effective for another STEM program.

• Templates in Microsoft Publisher and PowerPoint: All templates include instructions that are easy to follow -- even for beginners!

Check out the Women in STEM Outreach Kit 

Download for your whole school or district:

The Bibliography and Outreach Kit Package could be helpful for every science, technology, engineering, and trades educator in your school, or even in your district or region. Save significantly over ordering individual licenses when you order a: 1) School Wide/Institutional License; 2) Regional/School District License; or 3) State-Level License (contact us for a State-Level License). Simply choose which license you prefer during check out. if you are interested in a state-wide license.

Find out more about providing the Bibliography and Outreach Kit Package to your school, region or state 

College Level IT Experiences for High School Deaf Students

This week, ATETV visits high school students at the Learning Center for the Deaf and captures their experiences as they participate in a college level IT class. Career and technology education is a big part of life at this school where a student can get involved as early as his or her sophomore year. The first year is exploratory and involves participating in various classes for the equivalent of two periods per day. Then, the student moves on to pick one particular class to focus on for the remaining years at TLC. This is an exemplary model of a dual enrollment program and a story you won't want to miss, so tune in today!

ATETV

The New Workplace Currency Is Not Just Salary Anymore

Employers are learning that there are new rules for attracting talented millennials. A Cisco survey of more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries found that the preference for social media freedom, device flexibility, and work mobility was more important than salary when considering a job offer. One in three college students and young employees under the age of 30 (33%) said that they would take lower pay for these choices.

Source: The New Workplace Currency—It's Not Just Salary Anymore: Cisco Study Highlights New Rules for Attracting Young Talent Into the Workplace

NYT 5/29/11 Lockheed on the hunt for cybersecurity specialists

The rising need for cybersecurity specialists points towards a hot area in ICT. Here is a 1/11/11 video highlighting Lockheed's Cyber Security Day with Tech Council of Maryland: Stop Think Connect

Just two weeks ago, Lockheed advertised for a "lead computer forensic examiner" for the center, saying it needed someone who could work in a fast paced environment, understood "attack signatures, tactics, techniques and procedures associated with advanced threats," and was able to "reverse engineer attacker encoding protocols."

Excerpt from NYT 5/29/11 Lockheed's Cyber Cops Sift Through Hacker Evidence

Womentech Educators now offers Online Training

Many people believe that students drop out due to low grades.

Would you be surprised to learn that the grade point average of women who dropped out of an engineering program at the University of Washington was 3.2? And what was the grade point average of women who were retained? Also 3.2. It turns out the biggest reason women drop out of STEM programs is not low grades, but low confidence.

Self confidence is a predictor of success for women and girls in technology courses. Studies have shown that men who fail a STEM course are likely to repeat it, while women who fail a course see it as the end of THEIR road in STEM. Now, how do we translate that insight into greater success for women in the classroom?

There are a menu of strategies that you can employ to make sure that the female students in your classroom have both the skills and the confidence they need to succeed. You'll learn these research-based strategies at the upcoming WomenTech Educators Online Training.

Join in at the Online Training from March 29 to April 8. In 90 minutes a day over two weeks, you'll learn proven recruitment and retention strategies so you can see more female students succeed in your STEM classes.