Preparing the New Generation of Geoscience Faculty: Workshops To Shape the Future

由于地球科学领域的大多数研究生课程侧重于培养学生的研究能力，因此大多数新教员都没有为教授本科生做好充分准备，而且往往主要以授课为主。为了解决这些问题，我们建议为早期职业地球科学教师开设一个为期四天的研讨会，该研讨会将在三年的项目中提供三次。研讨会将包括全体会议、小型研讨会和分组讨论，主题包括：教学基础、主动学习策略、将研究和类似研究的经验融入所有地球科学课程、本科生研究的监督、评分和评估，以及新教师的生活。此外，我们将提供入门和高级地球科学课程的教学大纲、作业和活动示例，参与者和演讲者将会面，分享教学这些课程的想法和策略。后续活动将包括继续进行电子讨论的机会，参与者的进度报告，以及早期职业教师在专业会议上的小组演讲。资源材料，包括各种科学教学资源的信息，课程特定活动和作业的例子，以及为早期职业教师提供的建议专栏，将放在资源网站上。这个项目的受众将包括头四年教学的教师。学员在离开工作坊时，将会有更充分的准备，为本科生提供优质的教育。我们预计，这些早期职业教师可以成为他们所在院校本科教学变革的推动者。该提案与威廉玛丽学院和亚利桑那大学的提案同时提交。

Because most graduate programs in the geosciences focus on developing students' research abilities, most new faculty members are not well prepared to teach undergraduates and, in addition, tend to teach primarily by lecturing. To address these problems, we propose to develop a four-day workshop for early career geoscience faculty that will be offered three times during the three-year project. The workshop will include plenary sessions, mini-workshops, and break-out groups on the following topics: the basics of teaching, active learning strategies, integrating research and research-like experiences into all geoscience classes, supervision of undergraduate research, grading and assessment, and life as a new faculty member. In addition, we will provide examples of syllabi, assignments, and activities for introductory and upper-level geoscience courses, and participants and presenters will meet to share ideas and strategies for teaching those courses. Follow-up activities will include opportunities for continuing electronic discussions, progress reports by participants, and panel presentations by and for early career faculty at professional meetings. Resources materials, including information on various science teaching resources, examples of course-specific activities and assignments, and an advice column for early career faculty will be placed on a Resource Website. The audience for this project will include faculty members in their first four years of teaching. Participants will leave the workshop better prepared to provide an excellent education to undergraduate students. We anticipate that these early career faculty can become agents for change in undergraduate teaching at their home institutions. This proposal is being submitted in parallel with proposals from the College of William and Mary and the University of Arizona.