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Workshop Venue

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Wingate by Wyndham Greenwood Village/Denver Tech
8000 East Peakview Avenue, Greenwood Village, CO

  • Primary classroom - Keystone meeting room (ground floor)
  • Lunches - served in the hallway outside the meeting room; participants may eat in the classroom, breakfast area, or outside
  • Breakout areas - back of classroom, lobby, breakfast area, etc.

Agenda

Sunday, June 2

The meeting begins at 4:00 pm in the Keystone Meeting Room.

Workshop presentation slides

Afternoon goal: Get to know each other more, exchange math ideas, and more module framing

  • 4:00 pm - Welcome; Goals & Agenda of the workshop; EarthScope code of conduct
    • Introductions and Icebreaker
  • 4:40 pm - Sharing ideas of example problems from a variety of sub-disciplines
    • Gallery Tour (posters for each module; post-it notes with example problems)
  • 5:30 pm - Module pairs reflect on gallery walk input and further discuss module scope and components
  • 6:00-6:15 pm - Wrap-up, plan for tomorrow
  • 6:30 pm - Meet in lobby to walk over to Dinner at Pindustry (~2 blocks)

Monday, June 3

Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.

Morning goal: Initiate module student landing pages   

Afternoon goal: Initiate module instructor page

  • 1:00 pm - Writing modules for all students
    • Accessibility Guidelines
      • Color Oracle app (or similar) can help you quickly identify issues for someone with color blindness
      • Use headings (in Styles)
      • Use alt-text for images (we will also check for this during editing)
    • Implicit bias - consider whether your questions are coming from a context that most students would understand
  • 1:10 pm - Introduction: Why does the instructor page look the way it does?
    • Work in module teams on drafting the instructor page (esp. learning outcomes)
    • Maybe find a couple SERC/NAGT activities that apply the quantitative skill - Quantitative Activities search page (don't take a ton of time for this now)
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:15 pm - Work in module teams on student landing page and/or instructor page as it makes sense for your team. Pull in leaders with questions at any time.
  • 4:15-4:30 pm - Wrap up and Roadcheck
  • 4:40 pm - Shuttle to a local park with hiking and landscape views - team-building and discussion of quantitative geoscience aspects seen in the landscape
  • 6:30 pm - Shuttle pickup and transport to the restaurant
  • 7:00 pm - Dinner at The View House

Tuesday, June 4

Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.

Morning goal: Continue module development and introduction to WAMAP

  • 8:00 am - Overview of the day; roadcheck report
  • 8:10 am - Brief introduction to WAMAP and student quizzes (more on Wednesday)
  • 8:25 am - Continued module development (particularly focused on rubric and preparing for afternoon rubric peer review) 
    • Read rubric and apply it to your own module - what aspects are most in need of adjustment?
      TAKE NOTES - don't make changes yet (focus on getting through the thinking part)
    •  Skip rubric elements - 10-12, 14 (not relevant yet)
    • Give info to leaders on what other modules you will mostly likely use (besides your own).
  • 9:10 am - Discussion of technology use (calculators, Excel/Sheets)
  • 9:20 am - Module teams solicit input and whole-group provides feedback
    • Each module team has 3 minutes to present challenges
    • Each person can provide feedback on discussion threads at the bottom of each module's scratch page
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:15 am - Consultations with workshop leaders and work on revisions
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch

Afternoon goal: Develop student practice problems and review another module

  • 1:00 pm - Practice problems introduction
  • 1:10 pm - Teams work on practice problems and revisions
    • One person works on first practice problem and one works on revision suggestions from the morning
    • BE SURE to consider alignment between Example problem (landing page), practice problems, and quiz problems (WAMAP)
  • 2:20 pm - Read and review one other module -- use the comments and track changes features in Serckit 
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:15 pm - Make revisions from reviews, finish one practice problem, discuss other practice problem topics (connect with colleagues who can help with questions from outside your sub-discipline)
  • 4:45-5:00 pm - Paperwork, Wrap up, and Roadcheck

Dinner - on your own or self-organized groups

  • Optional: 6:30 pm - Meet for dinner at Cherry Creek Food Hall & Brewery (just south of the hotel) to hang out with colleagues and discuss -- increasing quantitative skill use in courses/programs

Wednesday, June 5

Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.

Morning goal: Develop plans for teaching implementation; using WAMAP for assessment

  • 8:00 am - Overview of the day, roadcheck report
  • 8:15 am - Develop individual teaching implementation plans 
    • Course, timing, potential activities
    • Consider how you will handle math anxiety, motivating students, and using "distributed" practice
  • 9:00 am - Small-group discussions on implementation plans (not in module teams)
  • 9:45 am - Report out on implementation plans (each small group mentions 2 takeaways)
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:15 am - Refine individual teaching implementation plans 
  • 10:45 am - Using WAMAP for assessment and student data collection   
  • 11:30 am - Individual or team work on WAMAP quiz questions
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch

Afternoon goal: Continue module development and peer review

  • 1:00 pm - Instructor resources, continue working on modules (whatever your group feels is most important)
  • Group photo
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:15 pm - Review a different module and give feedback to colleagues   
    • Focus on alignment between example problems, practice problems, and WAMAP questions
  • 4:00 pm - Address review and continue working on modules (whatever your group feels is most important)
    • Leaders will give additional feedback to each team first thing Thursday
  • 4:40 pm - Departure logistics; getting reimbursed
  • 4:50 pm - Wrap up

Dinner - on your own or self-organized groups

Thursday, June 6

Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.
If you are leaving on the noon bus, check out before the sessions starts at 8:00 am.

Morning goal: Finalize action plans for remaining module development work and teaching implementation

  • 8:00 am - Questions about the day 
  • 8:05 am - Make Team Action Plans and then work on the most needed aspects of modules
    • Action Plans are on each module's Scratch page
    • Leaders will circulate between teams to give additional feedback
  • (11:00 Packed lunches available)
  • 10:30 am - Whole group discussion
  • 11:15 am - Workshop evaluation survey
  • 11:40 am - People leaving on the 12:02 pm bus depart in the hotel shuttle