NIFTY Role Model Strategies Guide Training Highlights
The new Role Model Strategies: Encouraging Youth to Engage in STEM Careers guide provides gender equitable evidence-based strategies and tips for role models to incorporate into their interactions with youth. In this highlights video from a previously recorded virtual training, the NIFTY team walks you through these strategies and models how to introduce yourself as a role model to youth learners!
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Use the chapters below to navigate the video:
00:15 Role Model vs Mentor Discussion
02:10 Role Model Strategies
02:35 Role Model Strategy 1: Show diversity in STEM
05:58 Role Model Strategy 2: Make a personal connection to create an inclusive learning space
11:20 Role Model Strategy 3: Share your whole self
16:15 Role Model Strategy 4: Share your STEM journey
21:13 Role Model Strategy 5: Encourage learning from setbacks
23:30 Role Model Strategy 6: Communicate how your work impacts people, your community, and the world
25:31 Role Model Strategy 7: Show how STEM is creative and collaborative
26:41 Role Model Strategy 8: Provide resources for support and guidance
28:22 Example of a Role Model Introduction
43:00 What strategies did the role model introduction example use?
50:50 Tips for working with youth in person and virtually