Encouraging girls to stay to take AP courses in STEM
Small group report
- Retention in AP classes, commitment to carry through, colleges are looking at course
- Letting students understand value of learning
- How to get teachers to let girls have lead roles
- Testing/review process – giving the test and not going back over it
- Problems with AP program – teaching to the test
- More lab work
- More training resources for the teachers - AP training is to get teachers up to topic rather than address these issues
- Engineering as the new Liberal arts degree
- Redefinining science, science is uncertain
- Reputation of science classes as place were unpopular, nerdy folks go
- Middle school emphasis
- Math is critical to science
- Female teachers taking/getting AP certified
- Effective strategies for communicating with the school
- John's research – more AP courses they take, higher the SAT scores
- Weighted AP classes
- Make the teachers aware of the learning style differences between boys and girls
