Samuel Nyarko

STEM Education Innovation & Research Institute

Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Samuel C. Nyarko is currently a Postdoc researcher with the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. His research interests include collaborative and experiential learning practices such as teamwork and fieldwork , geoscience workforce development, students' conceptions, instruction and instructional design, DEI, and evaluation. Sammy is also a geoscientist interested in ore modeling and evaluation, and mineral exploration. Sammy is a constructivist and believes that diversity in knowledge creation is the closest we can go to achieve accurate knowledge, hence diverse and inclusive learning practices are priorities.

Webinar Leader, Workshop Leader, Website Contributor, Reviewer

Website Content Contributions

Other Contributions (4)

Advancing JEDI across NAGT: A Community Discussion part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Round Table Discussions
The NAGT DEI committee continues in its quest to broaden the diversity and participation of our members. Please join the committee as we seek to solicit for community ideas on how we can advance JEDI across our ...

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Fostering Students' Soft Skills Development Through Explicit Teaching part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Round Table Discussions
The Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education and Geoscience employers have increasingly called for student competency in three sets of skills: technical, field and soft skills. Geoscience teachers already do a ...

Featured Stories in Diversity: Personal narratives of overcoming obstacles to inclusion and implications for the Geosciences part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program
Join your fellow Geoscientists as we debut the NAGT Diversity Stories. This is a collection of lived experiences and lessons learned from within our community relating to the broad themes of diversity, equity, and ...

Case Studies and Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Geoscience Education Research part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Morning Workshops:Qualitative Methods and Designs in Geoscience Education Research
The goal of this workshop is to identify the types of research problems/questions that can be answered within qualitative education research frameworks. The primary focus will be on evaluating how decisions are ...

Communities

Member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
North Central Section, Geoscience Education Research Division

On the Cutting Edge Activity Reviewer
78 activities reviewed

Earth Educators Rendezvous 2023
July 2023 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2021
July 2021 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2020
July 2020 2023 EER Review Camp Reviewers
EER 2020 Activity Reviewers
JGE Associate Editors
NAGT All
Project EDDIE FMN Spring 2023 Participants
EER 2021 Activity Reviewers
EER 2022 Activity Reviewers
NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Education Icon
ICON Education Interest List
ICON Writing Leads

Workshop Leader

EER 2023 Case Studies and Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Geoscience Education Research

Workshop Participant (9 workshops)

EER 2020 Preparing for an Academic Career
July 2020 EER 2020 Monday
EER 2020 Strategies for Incorporating Sustainability Throughout your Earth Science Course

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Webinar Leader

NAGT Awards and Nomination Process Info Session
January 2023 Community Efforts to Broaden Conference Participation in the Geosciences
September 2022

Webinar Participant (5 webinars)

Recent and Ongoing Efforts of the NAGT Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee
May 2021 PresenterShakeAlert: Educational resources for teaching about earthquakes and early warning in the US
March 2021 Navigating Life as a GER Student
October 2020

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