Gender Inclusive Pedagogical Strategies

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For this project, we have drawn from many sources to collect specific strategies that are congruent with the inquiry-based, multicultural, and social constructivist orientations (STC) driving the proposed study. Among some of the principal strategies we have identified so far, and that were modeled during the summer institutes for teachers, and during the methods classes for preservice teachers are:

Using a variety of student-centered , hands-on and minds-on pedagogical strategies (see below)

Monitor groups for equity (who is doing the talking, using equipment)

Assign tasks equally

Tap into students' learning styles

Provide opportunities for problem solving

Encourage discussion on career options

Monitor praise and acknowledge accomplishments

Accept more than one right answer

Implement wait time and equitable turn taking

Encourage peer tutoring

Display images of men and women in career roles from various ethnic backgrounds

Praise and encourage collaborative learning and avoid creating a competitive environment

Link careers in science with mathematics, engineering, and technology

Invite successful female members of the community in SMET related careers to the classroom