June 26-July 2, 2004
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Application deadline: January 15, 2004.NOTE: This workshop occurred in 2004, and produced a collection of resources, which you can access via the navigation menu on the left side of this page.
Join us for an exciting collaborative effort focused on enhancing the teaching of structural geology at the undergraduate level. This workshop will bring together college and university faculty who teach structural geology to explore a wide variety of topics related to teaching structural geology effectively in the classroom, lab, and field. Participants will share exemplary laboratory and classroom activities, discuss course content and curriculum, explore field trips as a catalyst for integrating field and in-class material, and address issues in teaching and learning structural geology concepts and processes.
This workshop will be patterned after the very successful workshops on Teaching Mineralogy (1996) and Teaching Petrology in the 21st Century (On the Cutting Edge, 2003). Participants will help to develop an on-line Structural Geology Teaching Materials Collection similar to the Petrology Teaching Materials Collection. Instructional materials developed at the workshop will be reviewed, evaluated, and field-tested in classrooms by workshop participants.
Conveners:
- Barbara Tewksbury (Hamilton College)
- Robert Burger (Smith College)
- Jan Tullis (Brown University)
- Michael Williams (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
This workshop is part of the program On the Cutting Edge: Workshops for Geoscience Faculty, supported by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and DLESE with funding provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation-Division of Undergraduate Education (more info) .
