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Overview
The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) is proud to sponsor GirlTECH '00, a teacher training
program. During GirlTECH's initial two-week
training
period, held June 19 through June 30 at
Rice University in Houston,
Texas, participating teachers from the Houston area will receive intensive
technology training and explore innovative teaching strategies that impact
gender equity in the classroom. This year's GirlTECH participants also
will attend the Mathematical
and Computational Sciences Awareness Workshop (MCSA) held during the
same 2 weeks. Through GirlTECH and MCSA, teachers
- Are provided with Rice University Internet accounts and software for
Internet access.
- Receive intensive computer technology training from master teachers,
especially in the use of the Internet.
- Explore diversity issues in the computational sciences through
presentations and group discussions.
- Utilize online resources as a research, teaching, and collaboration
tool.
- Create their own home pages, design and publish Web-based math and
science lessons, and create home pages for their schools.
- Gain an
awareness of the latest research in the computational sciences and hear
from business and industry leaders' expectations of students for the 21st
century;
- Explore representation issues and teacher practices that impact girls'
interest in computers.
- Become members of an ongoing teachers' technology electronic support
group that communicates throughout the year.
- Establish a student technology project on their campuses to ensure a
transfer of knowledge from teacher to students.
- Make a one-year commitment to advanced training and to an integration
of technology into their teaching practices.
To learn more about GirlTECH, contact Cynthia Lanius, GirlTECH Program
Manager, at lanius@rice.edu.
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