Staff

This project will develop, evaluate, and disseminate “Seeing Gender: Tools for Change,” a CD-ROM set designed for use with pre-service and in-service teachers and college faculty in STEM fields. Multimedia projects involve a team of individuals capable of combining content requirements with delivery strategies that take advantage of the strengths of technology.

Project Staff

The Project Directors include Dr. Jacqueline D. Spears, Dr. Linda Thurston, and Dr. Diane McGrath. Dr. Clark Harris joins the staff as a Faculty Associate. Summaries of their qualifications and past work related to the project follow.

Dr. Jacqueline D. Spears is an Associate Professor in Secondary Education. Dr. Spears has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics, and a Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction. She has taught physics and applied science at the high school level, science content courses designed for prospective elementary education students and science methods courses at the university level, and introductory physics courses at the university level. Dr. Spears has been teaching the graduate course on gender equity in schools for the past ten years and is currently developing a variation of that course designed specifically for middle and high school science and mathematics teachers.

Dr. Linda Thurston is the Assistant Dean of the College of Education and the Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation. She has directed research projects on gender equity, preparation of rural special education teachers, distance education, and multimedia development. Dr. Thurston was also a Co-Principal Investigator for a Women’s Educational Equity Act (WEEA) grant for preparing rural teachers to promote computer interest and competence in girls in middle schools.

Dr. Diane McGrath is an Associate Professor in Foundations and Adult Education and coordinates the educational computing, design, and telecommunications graduate program. She has participated in projects to use computer technology to involve students in science, such as the Konza Prairie Project and the Konza for Kids project. With Dr. Thurston, Dr. McGrath served as Co-Principal Investigator for a WEEA grant for preparing rural teachers to promote computer interest and competence in girls in middle schools.

Dr. Clark Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education with expertise in teaching, advising, researching and providing service in agricultural education, developing multimedia curriculum, and providing leadership and direction in the development and dissemination of equity related materials. Dr. Harris previously was the Executive Director for Multistate Academic and Vocational Curriculum Consortium (MAVCC). Efforts include promoting the organization, marketing MAVCC products, maintaining finances, coordination efforts, and providing inservice in competency-based instruction. He has extensive experience in web site development and has conducted multiple workshops on technology related issues.

Cecilia Hernandez
Project Coordinator

Tech Group
Individual who add color and amusement to the project party.
They can do magic tricks too!
Zia Ahmadi, Video Producer
Elaine Chen, Programmer
Jemmy Chien, Graphic Designer

Advisory Panel

A national Advisory Panel of four to six individuals was formed to guide the design, field-testing, and dissemination of the CD-ROM set. The make-up of the Advisory Panel includes:

  1. expert in the field of gender equity specific to STEM fields,
  2. science or engineering faculty member with extensive experience in gender issues in college teaching,

The Advisory Panel’s responsibilities will be to review:

  1. initial content and screen designs,
  2. scripts developed for the individual modules,
  3. field-test versions of the final product, and
  4. plans for disseminating the project’s work.

The members of the Advisory Panel are:
  1. Veronica Ellingson - High School Teacher
  2. Marilyn Hetzel - Education faculty member
  3. Debra Huber - Administrator
  4. Jamie Royster - High School Teacher
  5. Jo Sanders - Consultant
  6. John Sutton - Researcher

Teacher/Faculty Review Panels

Teacher/Faculty Review Panels will be formed to review the scripts as well as field test versions of the CD-ROM set. A separate panel will be established for each content category (textbooks, lab activities, interactions, climate, gender schema, and accumulation of disadvantage). Each panel will consist of:

  1. university faculty member from engineering,
  2. university faculty member from the sciences or mathematics,
  3. teacher education faculty member affiliated with secondary education, and
  4. two high school teachers. The faculty members from engineering and the sciences and mathematics will be recruited from within Kansas State University, although volunteers from other universities would certainly be welcomed. Letters of support from the deans of the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences as well as illustrative letters from department heads within those two colleges have been included in the proposal. Teacher education faculty will be recruited from Kansas State University as well as from nearby universities. High school teachers will be recruited through current partnerships with surrounding school districts as well as through the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science (KATS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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