Early Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop Program

Note: the 2009 workshop is over. Find out more about the Early Career Geoscience Faculty workshops, or scroll down for more information about the 2009 workshop, including links to most of the workshop presentations.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Check in to the hotel (the Williamsburg Hospitality House) at any time (your room might not be ready until 3:00 pm). Registration for the workshop will be in the William and Mary Parlor of the Hospitality House from 3:00-5:30; workshop registration for later arrivals will be at the Sadler Center during dinner or the evening program.

5:30 Informal Reception with Cash Bar, Sadler Center, Tidewater A and B

6:00-7:00 Dinner, Sadler Center, Tidewater A and B

7:00-9:00 Welcome and Introductions, Workshop Goals, Discussion, Logistics, Sadler Center, Tidewater A and B


Monday, June 15

7:00-8:00 Breakfast, Sadler Center Dining Hall

8:15-9:40 Alumni House, Leadership Hall

Preview schedule 
Course Design: Learning, Teaching, and Assessment (Acrobat (PDF) 865kB Jun12 09)

Successful Activities and Assignments: composite list of characteristics, from our discussion

9:40-10:00 Break

10:00-11:10 Course Design: Learning, Teaching, and Assessment continued

Bloom's Taxonomy Exercise (Acrobat (PDF) 514kB Jun9 09)

11:10-12:00 Interactive Lectures (Acrobat (PDF) 236kB Jun14 09) - Greg Hancock (Department of Geology, College of William and Mary)

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Sadler Center Dining Hall

1:30-2:20 Teaching Strategies: Concurrent Sessions, McGlothlin-Street Hall (MS): Participants will attend a session selected from the list below:

2:30-3:20 Teaching Strategies: Concurrent Sessions. Participants will attend a session selected from the list below.

3:20-3:40 Break, MS 20 Lobby

3:40-4:40 Taking Charge of Your Career (Acrobat (PDF) 72kB Jun14 09), MS 20

4:40-5:00 Overview of Individual Consultation Process and Daily Roadcheck

5:30-6:30 Dinner, Sadler Center Dining Hall

7:00-8:00 Informal Session (optional) - Sharing Ideas about Specific Courses - Alumni House (open until 9:00 pm)


Tuesday, June 16

7:00-8:00 Breakfast, Sadler Center Dining Hall

8:15-8:30 Report from Daily Roadcheck, Your Research/Scholarly Career Sadler Center, Tidewater A

8:30-9:40 Working Effectively with Research Students: Different Models

Discussion summary: Synthesis of participants' discussions on guidelines for research students

9:40-10:00 Break

10:00-10:50 Research Strategies: Concurrent Sessions. Participants will attend one of the sessions listed below:

  • Starting New Research Projects and Collaborations - James Farquhar, Jen Roberts, and Steve Wojtal, York Room (also offered at 11:00)

11:00-11:50 Research Strategies: Concurrent Sessions. Participants will attend a session from the list below.

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Sadler Center Dining Hall (12:15-1:15 - optional interest group discussions)

Related resources for lunch discussions:

1:25-2:05 Connections, Extensions, Opportunities: Concurrent Sessions, Alumni House and/or Sadler Center. Participants will attend a session selected from the following list:

  • Getting Published: Strategies for Moving Forward - Richelle Allen-King and Steve Wojtal - Alumni House, Leadership Hall (repeated in second session)
  • Navigating Departmental and Institutional Politics - Randy Richardson, Alumni House, 2nd Floor Conference Room (repeated in second session in different room)

2:15-2:55 Connections, Extensions, Opportunities: Concurrent Sessions. Participants will attend a session selected from the following list:

3:00-3:40 Tenure: Issues, Questions, and Answers; Daily Roadcheck, Alumni House, Leadership Hall

3:40-4:00 Break, Alumni House

4:00-5:20 Individual consultations, Alumni House (also in the evening, by mutual agreement)

5:30-6:30 Canoe Lake Matoaka, walk through the College Woods, tour the Keck Environmental Lab

6:30 Picnic Dinner at the Keck Environmental Lab

 

Wednesday, June 17

7:00-8:00 Breakfast, Sadler Center Dining Hall

8:15-8:30 Preview of Day, Alumni House

8:30-10:00 Developing a Strategic Plan for Research/Scholarly Activity (Acrobat (PDF) 111kB Jun14 09)

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-11:30 Writing Proposals and Getting Funded (Acrobat (PDF) 332kB Jun17 09); Professional Introductions; Discussion ofNSF Visit

11:30-12:45 Lunch, Alumni House

11:45-12:45 Optional Interest Group Discussions

Related resources for lunch discussions:

1:00-3:00 Moving Your Research/Scholarly Activity Forward: Funding and Other Issues (concurrent sessions) NOTE EARLIER AFTERNOON START TIME

  • Improving Research Proposals Through Review of Your Proposal Summaries - Sadler Center, Tidewater A
  • Improving Research Proposals Through Critique of Successful Proposals and Feedback on Your Plans - Alumni House, Leadership Hall

3:00-3:20 Break, Alumni House

3:20-3:30 Poster Instructions (Microsoft Word 30kB Jun14 09), Daily Roadcheck Alumni House, Leadership Hall

3:30-5:30 Work on Poster, Individual Consultations

6:00 or your choice Dinner in town (self-organized)

7:00-9:30 Work on Poster, Individual Consultations, Alumni House (open until 10:00 pm)


Thursday, June 18

7:00-8:00 Breakfast, Sadler Center Dining Hall

McGlothlin-Street Hall Room 20 Lobby: coffee all morning

8:15-11:00 Poster Session, McGlothlin-Street Hall Room 20

11:00-11:30 Poster Follow-up and Reflection

11:30-1:15 Lunch in town

1:15-2:15 Balance and Time Management (Acrobat (PDF) 93kB Jun18 09), Alumni House. Leadership Hall - making choices based on priorities, scheduling, and more.

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-4:00 Strategic Action Planning

4:00-4:45 Next Steps, Recommendations, Concluding Remarks, and Workshop Evaluation

7:00 Dinner, Nawab Indian Restaurant


Friday, June 19

Optional Visit to the National Science Foundation

 

6:45 Bus departs from Hospitality House

10:15-10:50 Welcome and Introduction to NSF

11:00-12:00 Small Group Meetings with Program Directors

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:00-4:30 Individual Meetings with Program Directors and Concurrent Small Group Sessions

4:30-5:00 Debriefing Session

5:15-6:45 Dinner

6:45 Bus departs from restaurant for Williamsburg