W4b Intervention ReadingQs 

In the NY times article, several well-documented challenges that females face in male-dominated fields were reported. Answer these questions based on the article.

1. A Yale study showed two distinct professional disadvantages that females face when applying for jobs. Studies on ethnicity have shown the exact same bias against applicants whose names are popular in underrepresented minorities' cultures. What were they?

2. What type of negative comments did females hear from teachers when taking high school AP physics courses? If something like this has happened to you, describe how it affected you in terms of your persistence in tackling challenge problems. If it hasn't happened to you, describe how you think it would affect someone who generally does well in a class but then encounters a challenging problem, and how that reaction would be different from someone who is given only positive feedback.

3. When working in groups / teams, females described specific challenges in communicating with peers. These challenges are not just anecdotes - studies have shown them to be true. What challenges to females / URMs face on teams, and how would that affect them emotionally (likelihood to continue), academically (ability to learn the material) and professionally (likelihood to be promoted in the future)?


Questions about culturally-relevant teaching article and the counterpoint:
4. What are the three components to culturally-relevant pedagogy?

5. There are different ways of defining culture someone's current culture, someone's cultural background, and popular culture.  You can answer these questions either for the game you are designing or for a game we have used in class.

a) Describe one way that you could allow students to bring in their current culture into your game.


b) Describe one way that you could bring in / celebrate a particular minority/s historical background?  

c) Describe one way that you could bring in popular culture?

6. Explain what growth mindset is.



7. Explain the relationship between growth mindset and academic success of
students in low-income households.


8. Is teaching "grit" or growth mindset the magic bullet? That is, if all 
students had growth mindset, would students then have equal chances of 
succeeding academically?


9. Choose a geographical location with which you are intimately familiar
(either Chicago area or where you have lived). Imagine you were to create
a summer camp in which students did projects. Identify the local 
underrepresented minority population, the specific elements in the local
environment you are using, and how those connect with the URMs.  Then
describe how you would connect those to math, computer science, or another
subject that you want to teach.