Illinois 2016 Regional Workshop Program

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Provenance: David Voorhees, Waubonsee Community College
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Cultivating Geoscience Students

8:00 - 8:30 Registration and light breakfast in Room 210A of the Academic Building

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Introduction of workshop leaders

• Introduction of SAGE 2YC Faculty as Change Agents project

8:45 - 9:15 Introduction of Workshop Participants (activity)

9:15 - 10:15 Supporting Student Success

• Gallery walk: What does student success mean:
• to your institution?
• for your geoscience program?
• to you?
• Discussion of success strategies and challenges in our classes and the 2YC setting

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10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30-12 Supporting Student Success in Your Teaching: Active Learning Methods

• Why Active Learning?
• Freeman, S., Eddy, S.L., McDonough, M., Smith, M.K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., and Wenderoth, M.W., 2014, Active Learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics, PNAS, vol.111, no. 23, p. 8410-8415; [www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1319030111]
• Jigsaw activity of active learning strategies (jigsaw exercise): gallery walk, think-pair-share, concept tests, cooperative exams, 3-minute essays, POTS, jigsaw exercises
• SERC resource on active learning: http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/gallerywalk/active.html
• SERC active learning posters 1478451209 (Acrobat (PDF) 4.9MB Nov6 16)
• Report out to group

12-1 Lunch with continued discussion; optional demonstrations of active learning exercises by participants

1- 3 Teaching Students How to Learn

• How to use metacognition, Blooms Taxonomy, and the study cycle in your classes
• Are there specific issues related to 2YC students?

3:30 - 3:45 Group discussion

• What big ideas did you get from the workshop?
• Ideas for the virtual follow-up activity in the spring or future workshops
• Reaching out: who else should be here?

3:45 - 4:00 Workshop evaluation