Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences

Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

July 21-25, 2004
Central Michigan University

Application Deadline: March 17, 2004

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Finding the time, energy, and inspiration to develop a new course or to re-design an existing course is a challenge for faculty. Join us for a four-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will make significant progress toward designing or re-designing an effective and innovative undergraduate course in the geosciences.

The course design workshop pushed me into new territory for teaching and learning, and I have reconstructed for the better my teaching for all my classes.

Before I attended the workshop I considered myself an effective teacher. But I had the focus all wrong. Now I see how effectively my students can learn.

Deadline for application is March 17, 2004.

Conveners:

• Barbara Tewksbury (Hamilton College)
• Heather Macdonald (College of William and Mary)

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 .