Teacher education intervention programs may consist of summer institutes or inservice programs. Reformers advocate the abolition of tracking because track placements in curriculum tend to be fixed and long-term. Although tracking may be done to accommodate differences in student ability, it exacerbates differences among students by limiting opportunities to learn. Lower-track science courses may actually limit students' opportunities to learn the subject because of restricted content and diminished outcomes. Reformers also advocate that more hands-on activities be used in science, preferably in a cooperative learning situation.
Girls benefit from such instructional tactics.
If, as some research data imply, current teaching strategies have led to early gender differences in attitudes, which then lead to differences in participation, changing teaching methods as well as revising the curriculum should help to decrease this trend. Such goals, Klein believes, will work toward equity as well as educational reform. Rather than attempting to single out several of these programs for inclusion here, it is preferable that ERIC users decide for themselves what best suits their needs. Most professional science and engineering societies have career brochures. Many are targeted at women and minorities.