Theme: Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty
The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty.
- Course Resources
- Curriculum Design
- Developing Geocompetencies
- Geoscience Education Research
- Implementing InTeGrate
- Online Education
- Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty
- Program Design
- Recruiting, Retention, Diversity
- Research for Undergrads
- Student Learning
- Teacher Preparation, Professional Development and Policy Issues
Preparing for an Academic Career
WORKSHOP
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
8:30am-11:30am
Burge Union Forum C/D
This workshop is designed specifically for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and others who are interested in pursuing academic careers in the geosciences. Workshop leaders will provide guidance and ...
Advancing Transdisciplinary Dialogue in Geoscience Education Research
WORKSHOP
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
8:30am-11:30am
Ritchie Hall: 368
This workshop is intended to bring together educators and education researchers from a variety of professional communities to advance research around GER grand challenges associated with teaching about the Earth in ...
The EarthConnections San Bernardino Alliance: Addressing Diversity in the Geosciences Using a Collective Impact Model
ORAL SESSION
Monday
2:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 368
The EarthConnections San Bernardino Alliance is one of three regional alliances supported by the national EarthConnections Collective Impact Alliance, funded by a pilot grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Utilizing InTeGrate's "Systems Thinking" across multiple student audiences
ORAL SESSION
Monday
2:15pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Thinking about the natural world in terms of functional systems is a key approach across the physical and biological sciences. At the University of Providence, a small private Catholic university in central ...
Developing Culturally Responsive Pathways to local Geoscience Jobs and Careers
ORAL SESSION
Monday
3:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 368
The Atlanta Alliance is building strong and impactful strategies and leveraging relationships with education and environmental organizations to; *expand "pathways to geoscience" careers *remedy prominent ...
Mentoring Practices
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
An essential characteristic of any mentoring relationship is effective communication. Moreover, while mentoring can take different forms, successful mentoring depends not only on activities or efforts of mentors ...
Professional Development and Support for Adjunct Professors
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Adjuncts play a major role in undergraduate geoscience instruction, especially for introductory courses, which are crucial to recruiting and retaining geoscience majors, recruiting a diverse population to ...
Supporting TA Success in your Classes
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
A 2016 survey of geoscience faculty across US institutions revealed that GTAs serve in a wide variety of instructional roles and perform a myriad of important tasks such as leading labs, grading papers, and holding ...
Bystander Intervention Strategies for Minimizing Departmental Conflict
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, microaggressions. If you've ever witnessed any of this behavior among faculty in your department or institution, you know the negative consequences. This round-table ...
Work-life Balance: Arc of a career
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Career demands and goals change over the course of our careers from graduate school until retirement. These shifting demands happen in tandem with small and large, positive and negative, life changes. Balancing ...
Building Partnerships on Campus and Beyond: Collaboration strategies and success stories
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Collaboration is key for successful development of multi-disciplinary projects relevant to sustainability, environmental science, and other earth science endeavors. A concerted effort to enhance collaborations ...
Developing and Implementing Program Assessment
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Wednesday
1:30pm-4:00pm
Lindley: 123
It can be said that if one does not like assessment and evaluation, then education is a poor choice of career. "Assessment" and "evaluation" tend to be used interchangeably, but they have very ...
Building a National Collaborative for Food, Energy, and Water Education (NC-FEW): Insights from a National Conference
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Institutions of higher education must take a leading role in preparing all global citizens for the food, energy, and water (FEW) challenges of today and tomorrow. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus concept has emerged as ...
The Graduate Student Fellows Program: A Unique Opportunity for Professional Development in Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of Kansas (KU) recruits Graduate Student Fellows (GSFs) to provide teaching and assessment resources to instructors and faculty through two projects: the ...
Understanding and Fostering Geoscience Student attitudes toward Agricultural Careers
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Recent studies have shown only three percent of college graduates would consider a career in agriculture. Conversely, the overwhelming challenge for increased food production is being met with technological ...
NAGT's Journal of Geoscience Education: A history and a look to the future
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
The Journal of Geoscience Education (JGE) of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) has been published since 1951. Over its 68-year history, JGE has had twelve editors, several publishers, and two ...
Supporting a Sustainable Future through Geoscience Integration in Non-Geoscience Courses
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
InTeGrate and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project partnered to support the adaptation of InTeGrate modules across multiple disciplines. The QUBES project partnered with ...
SAGE 2YC: Sustaining Faculty Learning
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
In a continuing effort to provide two-year college (2YC) geoscience faculty with the resources they need to be agents of change at their institutions and in their regions, the Supporting and Advancing Geoscience ...
A visual history of In The Trenches, 2011 - today
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
In The Trenches (ITT), the quarterly news magazine of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, started with the goal to "provide a venue...to inform NAGT members about your best teaching ideas, ...
Weaving New Threads into the Geoscience Community of Practice: Insights from Lightning Interviews at the EER 2015, 2016 and 2017
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
One goal of the Earth Educators' Rendezvous is to strengthen the Geo-Ed community of practice. A CoP is a group of people who share a passion for something they do, and build capacity for this practice ...
EarthConnections Alliance Open Meeting
Wednesday
7:00pm-8:30pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
The EarthConnections Alliance seeks to catalyze a new approach to geoscience education in communities across our country, creating a world in which all students can travel along geo-educational pathways that begin ...
Communicating Science to the General Public
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8:30am-11:30am
Ritchie Hall: 368
Effective communication skills enable practitioners to engage non-experts, inform public opinion and policymakers, inspire the next generation of scientists and voters, and improve our own research process. This ...
Advancing the Perception and Adoption of Geosciences in a New Era
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30pm-4:00pm
Lindley: 123
This "shopwork" is designed to generate creative thinking and innovative strategies for increasing exposure to Geoscience opportunities. A rebuilding of the public appreciation for Geoscience is possible ...
Strategies for Writing a Strong NSF Proposal
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30pm-4:00pm
Lindley: 314
This workshop is designed to provide insight and guidance for proposal preparation for submission to NSF programs. Topics covered will include funding opportunities, the Proposal & Award Policies & ...
Recent NSF Geosciences Directorate Award Trends in Addressing Broader Impact Criteria
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
1:30pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
"Intellectual Merit" and "Broader Impacts" criteria are of equal significance in the consideration of proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation. The National Alliance for Broader ...
Thursday A: Professional Development: Faculty, graduate students and teachers
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
1:30pm-4:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
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EMBeRS: A New Method for Igniting Interdisciplinary Learning, Synthesis and Convergence
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
1:45pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Many of humanity's most pressing issues are socio-environmental, and as such, are ill-structured, "wicked" problems. Investigating wicked problems requires a collaborative process that includes ...
TRESTLE: A Model to Promote Improved STEM Education at Research Universities
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
2:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
TRESTLE (TRansforming Education, Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence) is a 5-year, multi-institution, NSF funded project that began in Fall 2015 and is working to implement and evaluate a model to promote ...
Quantifying the Effects of Discipline-Based Professional Development Programs on Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
2:15pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
We investigated the impact of geoscience-specific professional development (PD) on undergraduate teaching by comparing instructor PD histories and classroom practices. Trained observers used the Reformed Teaching ...
Dispositional Characteristics: An Important Dimension to Consider in the Development of an Inclusive Educational Organization.
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
2:45pm
Ritchie Hall: 368
An ongoing challenge for higher education is preparing all students to effectively contribute to solutions for the many "wicked problems" and "grand challenges" that society faces. As ...
National Survey of Geoscience Teaching Practices 2016: Current Trends in Geoscience Instruction of Scientific Modeling and Systems Thinking
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
2:45pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Nationwide, there is a growing emphasis on effective undergraduate geoscience education. A central element of geoscience teaching and learning involves scientific modeling and systems thinking (SMST). While ...
The use of data analysis and quantitative skills in undergraduate geoscience courses
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
3:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Quantitative tools and data analysis techniques are important for the success of geoscience majors in a variety of careers, and are important for many non-scientists who need quantitative reasoning skills for ...
How well do introductory geoscience courses prepare future teachers? Results from the National Geoscience Teaching Practices Survey
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
3:15pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Most teachers experienced Earth science in a single introductory undergraduate geoscience course. To what extent do classroom practices in introductory geoscience courses reflect the practices we expect future ...
Researching the Impact of a Redesigned Introductory Earth Science Course on Preservice Elementary Teacher Knowledge and Perspectives
ORAL SESSION
Thursday
3:30pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
The authors present the design, research, and evaluation of an earth science course for preservice elementary teachers that is place-based, hands-on, technologically enriched, and aligns with the Next Generation ...
Your First Teaching Experience
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Friday
1:30pm-2:45pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Whether as a teaching demonstration as part of a job interview or in a full-on course, your first experience as a teacher can be daunting. In this roundtable discussion, we will explore ways to prepare for this ...
Implicit Bias
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Friday
1:30pm-2:45pm
Burge Union Forum C/D
Implicit bias describes when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge. Cognitive science research shows that everyone has implicit biases, sometimes in ...
Geodesy for everyone: Educational resources to incorporate geodetic data and concepts into instruction and activities
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
Geodesy is the study of Earth's shape, gravity field, and rotation. Geodetic applications and data are used to understand many societal issues such as land surface change, drought monitoring, climate change, ...
MT Rocks: The implementation of the MT Engage initiative in the Department of Geosciences at Middle Tennessee State University
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
The MT Engage initiative is part of the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and focuses on enhancing student academic engagement. This is achieved through the use of high impact ...
AGU's Virtual Programs: Providing Access to Students and Early Career Professionals Around the Globe
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is committed to inspiring and educating present and future generations of diverse, innovative, and creative Earth and space scientists. To meet our commitment, AGU provides ...
Developing a Geology Field Trip for Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Students
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
Geotechnical engineering faculty at Drexel and Villanova Universities collaborated with an environmental hydrogeologist from a local civil engineering firm and a volcanologist from Drexel University to develop a ...
Helping your students find their career path and options in geosciences
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
While students often choose to study and major in geosciences because of their love of the discipline, they may not be aware of what career options are available following graduation. Perhaps even more critically, ...
A Diverse Cohort of Undergraduate Students to Address Hawaii's Water Challenges
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
How much water is there in Hawai'i? How long will this limited resource last given current pumping scenarios? How can traditional Hawaiian water use practices inform modern water management decisions? These ...