Initial Publication Date: July 9, 2009
Additional Resources
This is a list of resources that one or more leaders at the June, 2009 workshop on Strengthening Your Geoscience Program mentioned during the workshop, either in a formal session or in informal conversations.
On Program Design and Assessment
- Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.
- Setting SMART Goals. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Framed.
- Program Assessment and Review pages written by Carol Ormand include developing an assessment plan, program metrics and instruments, and getting accreditation.
- Student Learning: Observing and Assessing - Find activities for evaluating student learning, information on how to use different assessment methods in different learning environments, and information or researching teaching and learning.
- Assessment Planning Documents to aid in developing a mission statement, vision statement, and student learning outcomes statement.
- Check learning from the University of Texas Instructional Assessment Resources.
- SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
Everything Speaks
- Lessons from the Mouse by Dennis Snow: ten no-nonsense, practical principles that anyone, anywhere can apply.
On Curriculum Design
- Kip Hodges' Beyond Earth System Science presentation from the 2007 Connecting Geoscience Departments to the Future of Science: New Structures for Research and Curriculum workshop discussing preparation of students and teachers for the future of geoscience and geoscience education.
- A Matrix Approach to Curriculum Design provides one way to design a curriculum.
- The Advancing By Retreating presentation by Scott Bair discusses how a faculty retreat can help build departmental consensus.
On Preparing Students for the Workforce
- The Professional Preparation pages written by Carol Ormand present information on geoscience workforce trends along with strategies for preparing your students for their future careers.
- UTEP's Center for Effective Teaching and Learning posts handouts and powerpoint presentations from their workshops, alphabetized by topic. This includes presentations on assessment, critical thinking, student writing, and much more.
- UTEP's Center for Effective Teaching and Learning also has a number of publications, on topics including Aligning Student Perceptions with Faculty Expectations and Using Mini-Cases to Promote Critical Thinking.
- UTEP's Writing Seminars include a seminar on Writing in the Disciplines. Slides and handouts from the seminars are available for download on their website.
On Student Recruitment
- The Student Recruitment web pages written by Carol Ormand present examples of successful recruitment strategies.
- 2007 Workshop on Recruiting Students
- Demography of the Geological Society of America: GSA abstract, 2008 annual meeting, Dallas Rhodes
On Going From Plans to Actions
- The Advancing By Retreating presentation by Scott Bair discusses how a faculty retreat can help build departmental consensus.