Workshop — Less teaching, more learning: A toolkit for classroom transformation

The aim of the workshop is to empower participants to be able to utilize research-based tips for recruiting, retaining, and advancing female students in engineering by better engaging the diverse skills, interests, and backgrounds of their female students and by connecting educational activities to engineering opportunities. This workshop highlights research-based strategies and practical steps to build engineering career awareness and recruitment, enhance retention, and promote academic advancement in engineering coursework by pre-college and undergraduate students with an emphasis on young women. We will use scenarios to model the use of the strategies in and out of classroom settings. Participants will identify barriers to engaging others in use of research-based methods and to brainstorm strategies to overcoming the barriers. Group work will be emphasized. Three reference booklets and three 10-minute videos will be provided to each registrant.