Initial Publication Date: June 19, 2015

Focus Group 2: Instructors

Facilitators: Tina Cartwright and Sheldon Turner

Agenda

Pre-Workshop Preparation
Resources to Review

Instructors Participant Workspace
(private space)Please read the following reports and prepare brief answers to the following questions.

Readings to consider:

Designing Effective and Innovative Courses--from the On the Cutting Edge program

From the InTeGrate program found on the serc website, there are many documents and essays that you may find beneficial, but we strongly suggest you become familiar with the following:

Strengthen Workforce Preparation in your Program

Why Focus on Diversity

Please bring answers to the following questions to the start of the meeting. Questions to consider about your own programs:

  1. What instructional resources do instructors utilize?
  2. How do instructors identify/find resources?
  3. What are the challenges associated with the resources that instructors are utilizing?
  4. What resources have instructors found that are effective for underrepresented groups?

Meeting Schedule

Day 1 Wednesday, August 5th

Dinner

5:00-5:30 Registration at Granite City Grill and Brewery

5:30-6:00 Ice Breaker (Mixer exercise) Activity and responses

6:00-7:00 Dinner

7:00-8:00 Project Introduction Slides (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 7.2MB Aug6 15)

  • Introductions
  • Goals of the Workshop
  • Goals of individual meetings
  • Project Outcomes
  • Review pre-workshop assignment

Day 2 Thursday, August 6th

Breakfast

7:30-8:30 Breakfast at the Hampton Inn

Morning Session - Where are we now? What are existing opportunities and barriers?

8:30 Welcome & Logistics (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 518kB Aug6 15) (Administrators and Instructors Joint Meeting)

  • Overview of GeoNeeds (administrators and instructors)
    • Review of agenda, where we are and how we're going to get there.
    • Norms and expectations

  • Questions?

9:00 Small Group Discussions on existing resources [instructors only]

Record discussions in Session 1 group pages in the Instructor Workspace (opens in a new window)

  • What existing resources do you utilize to help with your instruction?

9:45 Small Group Discussions on your contexts

Record discussions in Session 2 group pages in the Instructor Workspace (opens in a new window)

  • What are the opportunities/challenges for your institution?

10:45 Morning Break

[Both instructors and administrators together]

11:00 Success with Underrepresented Groups (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 13MB Aug6 15)

  • Guest speakers from Waubonsee Community College, David Voorhees (Instructor) & Lorrie Stahl (Administrator)

Lunch

12:00-1:00 Lunch at the Conference Center

Afternoon Session - Where do we want to go?

[both instructors and administrators together]

1:00 Envisioning the Ideal State

  • Creating Ideal Models

1:45 Feedback on models

2:15 Reflection on feedback

2:45 Afternoon Break

3:00 Identifying Stakeholders necessary for Ideal Model

4:15 Presentations of Ideal Models

4:45 Road Check - Preview of Tomorrow

Dinner

6:00 Dinner at Granite City Grill and Brewery

  • Homework for the evening assigned

Day 3 Friday, August 7th

Breakfast

7:30 Breakfast at the Hampton Inn

[both instructors and administrators]

8:30 Revisit Goals

  • Conveners presentation of Synthesized Ideal Model
  • View the Synthesized Model (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 86kB Aug7 15)

Morning Session - How will we get to our ideal model?

[instructors only]

9:00 Feedback on Synthesized Ideal Model

10:00 Group Discussion of Stakeholder Role, Summary of Discussion

10:30 Morning Break

10:45 Reflective Action Planning

Lunch

12:00 Lunch at the Conference Center

Afternoon Session - Incentives and Opportunities to make this model a reality

[both instructors and administrators]

1:00 NSF Program Officer Presentations (Jill Karsten) - Broadening Participation in the Geosciences: NSF Funding Opportunities (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 218kB Aug7 15)

3:00 Exit Survey and Feedback

3:30 Dismissal

Evening Departures