The Geography Faculty Development Alliance: Workshops and Seminars to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Geography in Higher Education

地理(88)这是一个为期5年的讲习班和研讨会项目，支持在高等教育中长期、广泛地改进地理的学习和教学。这是通过为初级教师和高级博士生提供在报告厅、研讨会和实验室出类拔萃所需的理论和实践知识来实现的。参与者是主动教学法、探究式学习、技术教学以及当今研究生课程中经常被忽视的主题--课程规划、学生评估、讨论领导力、讲授技能、实地研究和评估方法。该项目的主要目标是为年轻教师培养一种支持和成功的文化，帮助他们了解他们的教学和研究之间的基本联系，并促进整个学科的教学和学习的学术研究。为此，研讨会由一些最有成就的地理学科学家、学者和教师领导。这些资深科学家也是该项目的顾问委员会成员，他们还在协助为该项目的参与者建立一个指导网络。为了实现这些目标，每年夏季将举办为期一周的两期讲习班，为期五年(2002-2006年)，每个讲习班有20人参加。此外，还计划在美国地理学家协会和国家地理教育委员会的年度会议上安排后续研讨会、小组讨论和论文会议，以扩大该项目对其他教职员工和机构以及K-12教师的影响。一个纵向评估/研究部分是评估这种培训对年轻教员的价值，特别是在终身教职审查过程中。最后一个部分涉及将研讨会材料作为一门独立课程出版，以供研究生地理课程使用。

Geography (88)This is a 5-year project of workshops and seminars supporting a long-term, broad-based improvement in the learning and teaching of geography in higher education. This is being accomplished by providing junior faculty and advanced doctoral students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to excel in the lecture hall, seminar room, and laboratory. Participants are learning methods of active pedagogy, inquiry-based learning, teaching with technology, and topics often overlooked in today's graduate curriculum -- course planning, student assessment, discussion leadership, lecturing skills, field study, and evaluation methodologies. Key objectives of the project are to foster a culture of support and success for young faculty, to help them understand the fundamental interconnections between their teaching and research, and to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning across the entire discipline. To this end, the workshops are being led by some of geography's most accomplished scientists, scholars and teachers. These senior scientists, who also comprise the project's advisory board, are also assisting in establishing a mentoring network for participants in the project.To reach these goals, two workshops of one week duration are being held each summer for five years (2002-2006), with each workshop enrolling twenty participants. In addition, follow-up seminars, panel discussions, and paper sessions are being scheduled at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education to broaden the impact of the project, both to other faculty and institutions, and to K-12 teachers. A longitudinal evaluation/research component is assessing the value of this training to young faculty, particularly during the tenure review process. A final component involves publishing the workshop materials as a stand-alone course for use in graduate geography programs.