Early Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop Program
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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Hide5:00-5:30 Welcome, Check In and Introductions, Atrium Room 1107, Stamp Student Union
5:30-6:30 Dinner
6:30-9:00 Strategic Decisions: Elements of a successful career and a satisfying life (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4.6MB Jul10 18) (print as handout) - Tessa Hill, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, and Josh Galster
Monday, July 23
7:30-8:30 Breakfast, South Campus Dining Hall
8:45-9:00 Announcements and Setting Goals, Stamp Student Union, Atrium Room 1107
Rules of the road (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 66kB Jul22 18)
9:00-10:40 Course Design (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2.8MB Jul22 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Kaatje Kraft and Martin Wong
(Note: A modified version of these slides is in the notebook)
10:40-11:00 Break, Atrium Room 1107
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11:00-12:00 Teaching Strategies: Concurrent Sessions I-a, Stamp Student Union
During concurrent sessions I-a and I-b, participants will choose sessions from the lists below:
- Engaging Students in Large Classes (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.7MB Jul10 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent B 2112 - Andrew Goodliffe and Josh Galster
(Note: These slides are in the notebook) - Interdisciplinary and Team Taught Courses (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 7.5MB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Pyon Su Room 2108 - Anantha Aiyyer and Jennifer Anderson
We will discuss the benefits of using interactive activities in a lecture class, as well as several other ways to engage students, such as personal response systems, multimedia clips, in-class demonstrations, course website tools and connecting the topics to students' lives. We will demonstrate some short activities that actively engage a diverse and potentially unmotivated student group and that can easily be incorporated into lecture classes of any size. And we will spend some time brainstorming about ways to incorporate these strategies in your own classroom.
Geosciences research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. In this session, we will explore various ways to model and practice interdisciplinarity in the classroom, from initiating conversations with colleagues about overlapping interests to fully integrated and team taught courses. We will discuss challenges and solutions, both intellectual and logistical and explore successful practices.
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- Teaching Self Regulation for Improved Learning (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.9MB Jul10 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Kaatje Kraft
(Note: These slides are in the notebook) - Open Educational Resources (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 194kB Jul10 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent A 2112 - Ben Laabs and Carol Ormand
Students often struggle with knowing how to best approach studying a topic, how to approach working on their research, or complain that they know something until it comes time for the exam. How can we teach students how to develop a better sense of their own comprehension? How can we ultimately get our students to become self-directed learners? This session will explore what the research says about how to support students ability to self-regulate and provide strategies for implementing these practices in the classroom.
Open Educational Resources (OERs) for college-level geoscience classes are becoming increasingly abundant and have numerous advantages for students and faculty. OERs include open textbooks, open online classes, instructional videos, and a variety of teaching and learning activities. The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) website hosts a vast array of OERs for geoscience teaching and more. This session discusses the value of OERs in terms of pedagogy, customization, and ease of integration, and provides time to explore how OERs may be used in your own class(es).
12:00-1:15 Lunch with Sharing Ideas about Specific Courses (optional), Catered, in Atrium 1107
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1:15-2:15 Teaching Share Fair, Atrium Room 1107
2:25-3:45 Lesson Design: Preparing for a class period (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 939kB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Cynthia Hall
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Teaching Strategies: Concurrent Sessions I-b, Stamp Student Union
- Engaging Students in Large Classes (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.7MB Jul10 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent B 2112 - Andrew Goodliffe and Josh Galster
(Note: These slides are in the notebook) - Interdisciplinary and Team Taught Courses (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 7.5MB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Pyon Su Room 2108 - Anantha Aiyyer and Jennifer Anderson
We will discuss the benefits of using interactive activities in a lecture class, as well as several other ways to engage students, such as personal response systems, multimedia clips, in-class demonstrations, course website tools and connecting the topics to students' lives. We will demonstrate some short activities that actively engage a diverse and potentially unmotivated student group and that can easily be incorporated into lecture classes of any size. And we will spend some time brainstorming about ways to incorporate these strategies in your own classroom.
Geosciences research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. In this session, we will explore various ways to model and practice interdisciplinarity in the classroom, from initiating conversations with colleagues about overlapping interests to fully integrated and team taught courses. We will discuss challenges and solutions, both intellectual and logistical and explore successful practices.
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- Student Writing and Learning (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2.3MB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Cynthia Hall and Kaatje Kraft
- Hybrid, Online and Flipped Classes (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 551kB Jul10 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent A 2112 - Ben Laabs and Tessa Hill
We will share strategies for designing and evaluating student writing assignments to support learning. Strategies include small-scale, low-stakes writing activities that can be readily incorporated into courses, longer assignments that support learning objectives within the sciences, and the use of online discussion tools.
We will discuss the uses of online curriculum, flipped classrooms and other ways to innovate your teaching using online tools. We will provide examples of how faculty have engaged students using online technology and blending technology in traditional classrooms.
5:00-5:15 Overview of Individual Consultations, Daily Roadcheck, Introduce the idea of Posters on last day, Atrium Room 1107
Dinner on your own (options near UMD))
Tuesday, July 24
7:30-8:30 Breakfast, South Campus Dining Hall
8:45-9:00 Report From Yesterday's Roadchecks; Introduction to Your Research/Scholarly Career, Stamp Student Union, Atrium Room 1107
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9:00-10:00 Working Effectively with Students: Different Models (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 215kB Jul11 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Tessa Hill and Josh Galster
10:00-10:20 Break, Atrium Room 1107
10:20-11:20 Strategies for Research and Scholarship: Concurrent Sessions II-a, Stamp Student Union
During concurrent sessions II-a and II-b, participants will choose sessions from the lists below:
- Research with Undergraduates (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2.4MB Jul11 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent A 2112 - Martin Wong and Jennifer Anderson
- Starting New Research Projects and Building Collaborations (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.1MB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent B 2112 - Ben Laabs and Sarah Penniston-Dorland
In this session, we explore various models for designing undergraduate projects, working with undergraduates, and preserving group data/knowledge in the face of relatively high student turnover; we also discuss strategies for "chunking" projects in portions suitable for undergraduates at various levels of experience.
You have finished your dissertation or post-doctoral projects and you want to use the resources at your current institution and establish links outside your current institution to grow in new directions. This session will explore ways that you can build upon your existing strengths to move your career forward.
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- Recruiting and Working with Graduate Students (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.1MB Jul13 18), (print as handout) Atrium Room 1107 - Andrew Goodliffe and Anantha Aiyyer
- Educational Research on Teaching: Integrating your Research & Teaching (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4MB Jul16 18), (print as handout) Pyon Su Room 2108 - Kaatje Kraft
(Note: A modified version of these slides are in the notebook)
How do you recruit the best students AND retain them? The methods used by universities to recruit students have changed dramatically in the last few years. The students you are recruiting are being barraged by information from the universities that they are talking to. Learn how you can effectively recruit these students and work to retain them at your institution.
Conducting research on the process of learning geoscience can be illuminating and rewarding, leading to improvements in geoscience teaching. Taking the next step to implementing an intentional research project can be daunting when most of us are trained in geoscience research, rather than educational research practices. This session will explore how to move along the continuum from research-based teaching strategies to more discipline based educational research with a discussion of tools and resources available.
11:30-12:30 Strategies for Research and Scholarship: Concurrent Sessions II-b, Stamp Student Union
- Research with Undergraduates (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2.4MB Jul11 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent A 2112 - Martin Wong and Jennifer Anderson
In this session, we explore various models for designing undergraduate projects, working with undergraduates, and preserving group data/knowledge in the face of relatively high student turnover; we also discuss strategies for "chunking" projects in portions suitable for undergraduates at various levels of experience.
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- Starting New Research Projects and Building Collaborations (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.1MB Jul12 18), (print as handout) Margaret Brent B 2112 - Ben Laabs and Sarah Penniston-Dorland
You have finished your dissertation or post-doctoral projects and you want to use the resources at your current institution and establish links outside your current institution to grow in new directions. This session will explore ways that you can build upon your existing strengths to move your career forward.
