A Training Workshop on Teaching Mineralogy

矿物学是地球科学课程中的第一门课程，但通常会对学习造成重大障碍，并且可能与学生或整个社会的当代需求无关。 该培训研讨会旨在开发各种实践性的、以发现为导向的实验室练习。 工作坊的目标是开发新材料，使矿物学更容易接近和相关的学生，并制定这些练习与现代学习理论雅阁。 包括五种不同类型的学习活动：实地经验、“干实验室”（矿物鉴定、晶体结构）、“湿实验室”（晶体生长等实验练习）、分析练习（使用XRD和SEM）和计算机辅助学习（建模程序）。 选定的工人在研讨会上展示模型活动;其他参与者在研讨会上轮流进行16-20次新的实验练习。 所有参与者至少开发一种新的练习，这些练习将在下学期在家乡机构进行实地测试。 这些练习将由美国矿物学会汇编并提交出版。 这次讲习班的成果将是一批接受新的教学方法和材料培训的教员，以及一本可供所有地球科学学生使用的新练习的实验室工作手册。

Mineralogy is the inaugural course in the geoscience curriculum, but typically presents major obstacles to learning, and may not be relevant to the contemporary needs of students or society-at-large. This training workshop is designed to develop a variety of hands-on, discovery-oriented laboratory exercises. The goals of the workshop are to develop new materials to make mineralogy more accessible and relevant to our students, and to develop these exercises in accord with modern learning theory. Five different types of learning activities are included: field experiences, "dry labs" (mineral identification, crystal structures), "wet labs" (experimental exercises such as crystal growing), analytical exercises (using XRD and SEM), and computer-assisted learning (modelling programs). Selected workers present model activities at the workshop; the other participants rotate through 16-20 of these new lab exercises at the workshop. All participants develop at least one new exercise, and these are to be field tested at the home institutions during the following semester. These exercises will be compiled and submitted for publication by the Mineralogical Society of America. The product of this workshop will be a core of instructors trained in new instructional methods and materials, and a laboratory workbook of new exercises that may be used by all students in the geosciences.