Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty

July 26-30, 2015 (optional trip to NSF on Friday, July 31)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

The application deadline for this workshop has passed.

Join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional and personal responsibilities, and time management. Participants from prior workshops write:

"This workshop is one of the best things I have done for my career!"

"... it is very helpful to form a network of colleagues at other institutions. I think I made some friendships that will last my career."
"The workshop totally changed my view of teaching from teacher-oriented to student-oriented. It's no more what I want to teach but what students need to learn or take away from the course. This is the essential point that I will keep in mind when I design course goals, syllabi, in-class activities, assignments, and exams."

"This was a great workshop - I thought the workshop facilitators were great and I really enjoyed getting to know them and my new colleagues. I feel energized by the workshop, have a new research collaboration, and feel more in control of my teaching. I am glad I gave myself the gift of being here!"

Participants must have a full-time faculty position at a two-year or four-year college or a university at the time of the workshop and must be in their first three years of full-time teaching or starting a full-time position in the fall. See the overview page for details.

Workshop Facilitators

Rachel Beane, Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin College
Tessa Hill, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis
Josh Galster, Earth & Environmental Studies, Montclair State University
Matthew Gilmore, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota
Andrew Goodliffe, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama
Karen Kortz, Department of Physics, Community College of Rhode Island
Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Laura Rademacher, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Pacific

Cutting Edge Staff

Monica Bruckner, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College
Carol Ormand, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College

This workshop is part of the On the Cutting Edge professional development program for current and future geoscience faculty, and is sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers with funding provided by NAGT, and a grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Undergraduate Education and other contributing sponsors.