Program
Google Slides Pre-meeting Notes Modules in Progress Participant Implementation Plans TMYN-Intro Project
Workshop Venue
2024 TMYN-Majors
Workshop groundtransport instructions and maps (Acrobat (PDF) 434kB May10 24)
2024 TMYN-Majors Workshop hotel vicinity map (Acrobat (PDF) 5.8MB May9 24)
Wingate by Wyndham Greenwood Village/Denver Tech
8000 East Peakview Avenue, Greenwood Village, CO
- Primary classroom - Keystone meeting room (1st 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.
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 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 - Dinner at nearby restaurant - TBD
Monday, June 3
Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.
Morning goal: Initiate module student landing pages
- 8:00 am - Overview of the day and module rubric
- Using Serckit - text editing, adding links, uploading files, inserting images, math formula, data & tables
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Copyright - guidance from GETSI Project on finding allowable images (Note: you do not need to spend a lot of time looking for copyright-ok images, if you find something close, our student intern can redraft an image or find a better one for you)
- Brief intro to module rubric
- 8:45 am - Work in module teams on designing student landing page
- 10:00 am - Break
- 10:15 am - Continue work in module teams on designing student landing page
- Start after the break by considering other TMYN modules and where there might be boundary considerations with other modules
- Logarithms and Log/Semi-log Plots - meet for a little while at the back of the room to discuss initial ideas (also consider existing Exponential Equations module)
- Start after the break by considering other TMYN modules and where there might be boundary considerations with other modules
- 11:30 am - Report out: How is your module going so far? (successes and challenges)
- 12:00 pm - Lunch
Afternoon goal: Initiate module instructor pages
- 1:00 pm - Writing modules for all students
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Color Oracle app (or similar) can help you quickly identify color blindness related issues
- Use headings, alt-text (we will also check for this during editing)
- Implicit bias - consider whether your questions are coming from a context that most students would understand
- Style conventions
- Accessibility Guidelines
- 1:20 pm - Introduction: Why does the instructor page look the way it does?
- 1:30 pm - Work in module teams on drafting the instructor page (esp. learning outcomes)
- 3:00 pm - Break
- 3:15 pm - Work in module teams: What other resources are there that will help instructors teach this math concept or find activities that use this quantitative skill? (Using Teach the Earth Search)
- 3:45 pm - Gallery Tour: Why is it challenging to teach this topic: tips, tricks, and pitfalls
- 4:15-4:30 pm - Wrap up and Roadcheck
- 4:45 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 restaurant
- 7:00 pm - Dinner at local restaurant - TBD
Tuesday, June 4
Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.
Morning goal: Continue developing modules
- 8:00 am - Overview of the day
- 8:15 am - Module teams solicit input and whole-group provides feedback
- Each module team has 3 minutes present challenges and 5 min to get feedback
- 9:00 am - Discussion of technology use (calculators, Excel/Sheets)
- 9:15 am - Continued module develop (particularly focused on feedback and preparing for afternoon rubric 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, 11, 12, 14 (not relevant yet)
- Get info on what modules most likely to want to use.
- Read rubric and apply it to your own module - what aspects are most in need of adjustment?
- 10:00 am - Break
- 10:15 am - Consultations with workshop leaders and work on revisions
- 11:15 am - Practice problems introduction / How to get practice problems from others?
- One person works on practice problem 1 and one works on revisions based on consultation
- 12:00 pm - Lunch
Afternoon goal: Review and contribute to each other's modules
- 1:30 pm - Finish up stuff from the morning
- 2:20 pm - Read and review one other module -- use the comments and track changes features in Serckit
- 3:15 pm - Break
- 3:30 pm - Make revisions from reviews and finish practice problem 1
- 4:00 pm - Practice problems sharing
- 4:45-5:00 pm - Wrap up and Roadcheck
Dinner - on your own / self-organized groups
- 7:30 pm - Independent work on modules (or evening discussion on quantitative skills majors-level Earth science course)
Wednesday, June 5
Breakfast available in Wingate breakfast area starting 6:30 am.
Morning goal: Develop plans for teaching implementation and intro to WAMAP
- 8:00 am - Overview of the day/Roadcheck report/paperwork
- 8:15 am - Develop individual teaching implementation plans
- Course, timing, potential activities
- Consider how you will handle math anxiety and motivating students
- 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 take-aways)
- 10:00 am - Break
- 10:15 am - Refine individual teaching implementation plans
- 10:45 am - WAMAP and student data collection
- 11:30 am - Individual or team investigation of WAMAP and searching for relevant existing problems
- 12:00 pm - Lunch
Afternoon goal: Continue work on modules
- 1:30 pm - Continue WAMAP investigation if needed; then module teams continue work on module pages (with break as needed)
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:15 pm - Instructor resources
- 3:45 pm - Keep going with most urgent
- 4:40 pm - Departure logistics; getting reimbursed
- 4:50 pm - Wrap up
Dinner - on your own / 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: Action plans for remaining module development work and teaching implementation
- 8:00 am - Questions about the day
- 8:05 am - Making Team Action Plans and then work on most needed aspects of modules
- (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