ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION ·
FEBRUARY 2010
Welcome to the ATE Central Connection! Published the first Monday of each month, the ATE Central Connection is meant to disseminate information to and about ATE centers and projects, providing you with up-to-date ATE news, events, reminders, as well as highlighting new centers, projects, and resources. In addition, we will also highlight an educational topic with complementary resources found within ATE Central to help illustrate how ATE resources can be used in the classroom.
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The primary goal of the Tennessee Board of Regents Teacher Preparation Partnership (TBRTP) is to improve the mathematics, science, and technology preparation of future elementary level teachers in Tennessee through a large-scale partnership and systemic change. Seven community colleges and two four-year universities within the Tennessee Board of Regents system have joined together to develop a common core of courses for teachers consisting of an introduction to teaching and technology courses and standards-based mathematics and science courses. On the site, visitors will find information about the project, its goals and history, project summaries, timetables, contacts, and links to all the institutions participating in the partnership.
Here is a small sample of the valuable resources in ATE Central that focus on Women and STEM:
From NetWorks:
This website is primarily a guide to engineering for high school girls. It also includes sections for parents and advisors, engineers, and middle school girls. There are several sections to the site which demonstrate the appeal and success of women in Engineering, these sections include: "Why Engineering?", "Meet Inspiring Women", "Find Your Dream Job", and "Making it Happen".
The WomenTech Portal is an essential new resource on the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science (IWITTS) website, connecting educators with research-based articles on recruiting and retaining women in technology. Here, you can read journal articles in categories such as bridge courses, spatial reasoning, and learning style, among others. These articles introduce educators to research on the most effective strategies for recruiting and retaining women, and include examples of programs that have had real results. The portal also offers best practices, student recruitment tools, downloadable posters, WomenTechTalk - an email discussion group, job listings, videos, biographies, marketing materials, and much more. The WomenTech Portal is part of the CalWomenTech Project, and is available to everyone on the IWITTS website.
From the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME):
The Women in Technology Project's mission is to "build and strengthen the education to workforce pipeline by encouraging girls, women and other underrepresented groups into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers." On their website, visitors will find information on their many programs available including camps, job placement programs, mentoring, and job fairs. Also available from their homepage visitors can find details on upcoming workshops, resources, and a blog.
For more ATE resources on Women and STEM please visit: http://atecentral.net/s=Women
We are extremely pleased to announce that ATE Central has been awarded a second grant from the National Science Foundation which expands the scope of the project and will allow us to continue supporting the ATE community for the next four years. We look forward to working with all our partners within ATE as well as WGBH Boston and others as ATE Central moves forward into this second phase! For more information please e-mail Rachael Bower ([email protected]).
CWIS is open source software, created with NSF funding, that can help your project or center showcase resources online. It's free and very easy to use -- click here to check out a few of the sites running CWIS. We'd be happy to provide you with more information about CWIS and give you a quick tour of its features -- please e-mail Edward Almasy ([email protected]) to get started!
For information about ATE Central and how your project or center can take part and benefit from ATE Central's portal and services you may want to download the ATE Central Handbook at http://atecentral.net/handbook.
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