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      <title>Summer  Multicultural  and  Interdisciplinary  Learning  for  Engineering  (SMILE)  in  Transportation:  Professional Development for Future Science Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This proposal is designed to offer a professional development opportunity, “Summer Multicultural & Interdisciplinary Learning for Engineering (SMILE) in Transportation, ”for future science teachers(focusing on grades 4-5)and measure its effects on their teaching. As the student population grows more diverse, schools are facing greater challenges in delivering effective instructions of “transportation” to the diverse student population, including minority students who speak English as a second language. A five-day online workshop, SMILE in Transportation, will provide future science teachers with an opportunity to interact with the cultural professionals in transportation who are transportation experts, have their own cultural backgrounds, and present transportation systems through their cultures. The cultural professionals in transportation involve inter-disciplinarily professionals not only on the campus(Science Education, Civil Engineering, Center for Mexican American Studies, Center for Innovative Research and Teaching (CIRT), and the UTA Library) but also from the communities (International museums and schools).SMILE in Transportation is a novel approach to increase the knowledge of the future science teachers in transportation and to develop a unique teaching methodology that incorporates the backgrounds of CLD students into teaching engineering of transportation. The data collected from the pre-and the post-surveys of the participants’ science affinities (interest, self-efficacy, attitudes, & identity), cultural competencies, science knowledge tests, and the interviews at the end of the project will be used to improve future teachers’ understanding of transportation and other cultures and their skills in developing culturally-responsive instructions to teach transportation, as well as to update SMILE workshop for future sessions. The SMILE website will be made widely available to encourage participation from science teachers, educators, and administrators across Texas and beyond. The findings from SMILE will be also disseminated through conferences and journal articles for adoption by other universities and schools.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Implication of School Format on Women in STEM</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) (examples of each of STEM include Marie Curie, Katherine Johnson, Ellen Ochoa, and Irmgard Flugge-Lotz ( (Shetterly, 2016), (Waisman & Tietjen, 2008))) have made and continue to make important contributions to their fields.  The ability of women to contribute to their fields without feeling that they have to give up on having a family relies on the presence of a support system or village typically made up of family, friends, childcare, and schools.  The coronavirus pandemic has brought to the forefront the importance of these support systems, particularly schools, in enabling women the time and resources to contribute in STEM fields.  Many K-12 schools are currently not offering full-time, traditional in-person learning.  More often, schools are offering only at-home, online options and many women must make difficult choices between their professional futures in STEM ( (Boorstin & Taylor, 2020), (Kramer, 2020), (Gewin, 2020)) and supporting online learning, “pandemic pods”, or transitioning to homeschooling their K-12 students.  This research seeks to document the importance of school format (e.g. online, hybrid, in-person, “pandemic pod”) on women in STEM.  The results are intended to provide input regarding how policies in the future can better support these important contributions, but potentially, for more immediate solutions to be realized.  This is different than many of the other on-going research initiatives that tend to focus on work-life balance and tenure (Rincon & Nguyen, 2020).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>K-12 Summer 2020 High School STEM Teacher Workshop, STRIDE/Tennessee Tech (YR3)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Summer STEM Teacher workshop will focus on providing background information
and material on transportation subjects for 15 high-school mathematics and/or science teachers. The
material and tools are designed to help these teachers incorporate transportation-based learning
objectives into their classroom lessons. During the workshop, the participating teachers will have
contact time with both STEM teaching experts and engineering faculty and students with
transportation expertise to provide a well-rounded learning experience. The teachers will attend three
workshop events. The teachers will be guided to develop a transportation topic lesson between their
second and third workshops. The workshops will be led by the STEM Center and the College of
Education faculty with through collaboration of the College of Engineering faculty and student at
Tennessee Tech University. The participating teachers may work collaboratively if appropriate to
develop additional lessons that can be incorporated into to their classroom teaching. It is anticipated
that support resources (supplies) will need to be purchased to support the effort and to provide the
necessary material to the teachers. The support resources will be stored within the Lending Library
at the Oakley STEM Center at Tennessee Tech University and teachers can check out the support
resources—free of charge—to use during the administrations of their lessons. A preliminary
schedule and agenda for the Summer 2020 STEM High School Teacher Workshop is attached.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>K-12 Summer STEM Teacher Workshop, STRIDE/Tennessee Tech (YR2)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Summer STEM Teacher workshop will train 10-15 middle school mathematics and/or science teachers how to incorporate transportation-based learning objectives into their classroom lessons. The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the STEM Center at Tennessee Tech.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:17:06 GMT</pubDate>
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