Illinois 2016 Regional Workshop Program

Cultivating Geoscience Students

8:00 - 8:30 Registration and light breakfast in Room 210A of the Academic Building

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Introduction of workshop leaders

Introduction of SAGE 2YC Faculty as Change Agents project

8:45 - 9:15 Introduction of Workshop Participants (activity)

9:15 - 10:15 Supporting Student Success

Gallery walk: What does student success mean:

to your institution?
for your geoscience program?
to you?

Discussion of success strategies and challenges in our classes and the 2YC setting

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30-12 Supporting Student Success in Your Teaching: Active Learning Methods

Why Active Learning?

Freeman, S., Eddy, S.L., McDonough, M., Smith, M.K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., and Wenderoth, M.W., 2014, Active Learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics, PNAS, vol.111, no. 23, p. 8410-8415; [www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1319030111]

Jigsaw activity of active learning strategies (jigsaw exercise): gallery walk, think-pair-share, concept tests, cooperative exams, 3-minute essays, POTS, jigsaw exercises

SERC resource on active learning: http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/gallerywalk/active.html
SERC active learning posters 1478451209 (Acrobat (PDF) 4.9MB Nov6 16)

Report out to group

12-1 Lunch with continued discussion; optional demonstrations of active learning exercises by participants

1- 3 Teaching Students How to Learn

How to use metacognition, Blooms Taxonomy, and the study cycle in your classes
Are there specific issues related to 2YC students?

3 - 3:30 Final Activity: Develop an individual action plan to use what you learned from this workshop in your class(es). Download and complete this form SAGE_ILactionPlan (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB Nov6 16), and then email to dvoorhees@waubonsee.edu and/or cresnick@icc.edu

3:30 - 3:45 Group discussion