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 ===== Challenges ===== ===== Challenges =====
  
-While WIMS faculty understand the continuing--sometimes masked--challenges for women in science (who doesn't have a good story about that?), our students tend to be blissfully unaware.  There are general issues on campus with women's hesitation to take on leadership positions or be associated with anything for "women" (The dreaded "f-word".)+While WIMS faculty understand the continuing--sometimes masked--challenges for women in science (who doesn't have a good story about that?), our students tend to be blissfully unaware.  There are general issues on campus with women's hesitation to take on leadership positions.
  
-  * How can we make positive change across the campus?+  * These issues aren't isolated to WIMS; they're pervasive throughout W&L culture.  How can we make positive change across the campus?
  
   * How to teach persistence/following through?  There is a lot of failure and negative results in STEM.  How do we teach that that is okay?   * How to teach persistence/following through?  There is a lot of failure and negative results in STEM.  How do we teach that that is okay?
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 ===== Suggestions ===== ===== Suggestions =====
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-==== Topic: Subtle Cues in W&L Culture ==== 
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-There are cues in W&L culture that help suppress women's leadership.  How can we address them in our courses? 
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-  * Use of the term "women" than "girls" 
-    * "guys" seems to be the male alternative that doesn't have an age implied 
-    * reluctance to use the term "women" to describe themselves 
-    * first-year vs freshman -- faculty say freshman and then correct themselves 
-    * message from the faculty 
-      * "How old are you?" -- you're a woman 
-      * Get students to think about 
-      * competence -- more competence with women 
-      * girl is damaging in a work environment 
-      * not so much in a social environment 
-      * but school is your work 
-        * work-appropriate language 
-      * correct every time 
-    * alternative names "peer", "colleague" 
-    * individual conversations with students to correct them 
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-  * General anti-feminism culture 
-    * hesitation to use the word "women" in the name of a women's student leadership group 
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 ===== Action Items ===== ===== Action Items =====
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   * Discussion leader: Lynn Chin, Sociology -- November 6   * Discussion leader: Lynn Chin, Sociology -- November 6
   * Starting discussion:   * Starting discussion:
-    * Should you assign roles to team members?  How should you create roles?  What should the roles be? +    * assigning roles 
-    * What are the tradeoffs when choosing the size of teams? +    * size of teams 
-    * How do we encourage leadership within the team? +    * leadership within the team 
-    * How do we encourage a sense of ownership to a team project? +    * sense of ownership 
-    * How do we define expectations of team work?+    * defining expectations
 ==== Leadership Roundtable Discussion ==== ==== Leadership Roundtable Discussion ====
  
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     * how do you find leadership opportunities?     * how do you find leadership opportunities?
     * how do faculty/upperclassmen help encourage/nurture leadership skills in students?     * how do faculty/upperclassmen help encourage/nurture leadership skills in students?
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-===== Teamwork Notes from 11/6 ===== 
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-**Action Item:** Bring Lynny back in the winter term 
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-==== Team Assessments ==== 
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-  * work as motivation to step up 
-  * intermediate deadlines for evaluations 
-  * Lynny's teamwork evaluation: 
-    * rank order for contributions 
-    * how well prepared -- 5-pt scale 
-    * how much contributed 
-    * how cooperative  
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-==== Handling Challenges in Team ==== 
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-  * learning how to navigate difficult team decisions 
-  * how much should I (as faculty) intervene? 
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-  * why do people contribute? 
-  * when things are uncertain and we don't know who can contribute best to the group goal, we rely on some social status characteristic, not necessarily who is the most competent 
-    * no relationship between dominance and competence 
-    * status is a way of coordinating people's actions -- don't speak up because this is the way we're organizing the group 
-    * how do you break the typical social status organization? 
-      * competence is higher than status 
-      * every part is important but different 
-      * can't necessarily assign a leader with adults 
-      * valuing different types, culture 
-        * bring people in 
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-Issue from student: "I had to take over everything" 
-  * Help student to let it go 
-  * Alternative: bring bossy kids together 
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-==== Organization of Work ==== 
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-  * working on different parts is harder to coordinate 
-  * **jigsaw method** 
-    * break up students into teams 
-    * each assigned a role within that team 
-    * all in that role talk together 
-  * rotating jobs? is that possible? 
-  * easier to manipulate first-year students 
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-==== How Lower-Status Can Gain Leadership/Support ==== 
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-  * Frame suggestions so that they are listened to 
-    * show you are willing to sacrifice for the group: 
-      * "I think it's going to be better for the group ..." 
-      * "Is the best solution for the group?" 
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-  * give off aura of leadership 
-  * Give lower-status person more responsibility 
-    * assign extra questions 
-    * research this extra thing 
-    * shows that they have extra competence 
-    * they have this knowledge -- go listen to them -- stack in their favor 
-    * could be from a previous course 
-    * from office hours help session -- experts for the problem, for that moment 
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-==== General Tips ==== 
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-  * attempt to get every person to say something the first day of class 
-    * if they don't say something the first day of the class they are unlikely to say something the rest of the class) 
-  * allow "pass" answers to cold-called questions 
-  * pass the marker to students 
-  * encorporate group rewards, individual rewards, combination 
-  * tell anecdotes about your own good and bad team experiences 
-    * tell them about how not working together fails 
-    * Lynny's story: didn't trust the "lower" team members and failed 
-    * put in an effort 
-  * frame the teamwork 
-    * how this is good for their own success, resume, ... 
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