Girls in STEM

This week I read a secondary source article from a book about early childhood development and neuroscience. The article that I read was about brain-based education, which is a teaching style based on the idea that children learn in different ways and there are different teaching methods which fit each child. The article argues that […]

This week I was looking at effective pedagogy again with an emphasis on psychology. When looking for articles, I began to realize that a lot of what I have already researched with activity theory and belief competency is already a form of psychology and the articles I was finding were pretty similar. The one I […]

This question is very similar to the question I asked the first week: why do girls leave STEM? As I skimmed through different articles I felt that the answers were not very different for girls leaving STEM versus anyone else leaving STEM. Disinterest in STEM seems to come from the belief that sciences are difficult […]

This week I read an article that described a study of an afterschool STEM program for middle school African American students. The study took place at a school in which 98% of the students are African and 90% of the students receive free or reduced price lunch. Many of the students stay for an afterschool […]

Origninally I was going to use this week to research whether or not the standards for science teaching place any emphasis on teaching about women in STEM, but when I was doing my NGSS research a few weeks ago it was evident that there is not any mention of this type of inclusion within the […]

My goal this week was to familiarize myself with the methods that are used in order to effectively teach girls. The most general and comprehensive resource that I found on this topic is a book called “Teaching the Female Brain” that was published in 2009, implying that this has been a standard for around the […]