Collaborative Research: Combining Real and Virtual Professional Development for Current and Future Geoscience Faculty

全国地球科学教师协会（NAGT）和地球系统教育数字图书馆（DLESE）提供了一个专业发展计划，以提高本科地球科学教育的质量。该计划旨在提高参与者在新兴领域的内容知识，并促进示范性教学实践；开发有效的网上资源以支持现有的讲习班；提供工作坊的电子版，扩大工作坊的影响力；并培养一批积极参与进一步传播的教育工作者。专业发展计划包括地球科学的新兴主题和教师发展研讨会。每年举办两个新兴主题讲习班，一个是与地球系统有关的跨学科领域，另一个是地球科学教学法。成熟的专题研讨会，基于以往成功的工作，包括：课程设计研讨会，早期职业教师研讨会，研究生和博士后准备在学术界的职业生涯的研讨会。该项目开发的Web资源提供了一系列背景资源，旨在让参与者参与正在进行的讨论。该项目还探索了提供研讨会内容的教程、同步讨论和在线课程。工作坊的参与者应根据学生积极参与学习的原则开发课程材料，并在工作坊结束后测试材料，最终贡献给dleses收集和社区中心。工作坊规划和网络资源开发的整合，结合在一个独特的在线资源中，旨在将工作坊的经验远远扩展到参加面对面工作坊的人之外，并超越资助的整个生命周期。

Earth Systems Science (40)The National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is offering a professional development program to improve the quality of undergraduate geoscience education. The program is designed to enhance the participants' content knowledge in emerging fields and promote exemplary teaching practices; develop effective on-line resources to support existing workshops; provide electronic versions of workshops to extend the influence of the workshops; and develop an active cohort of educators involved in further dissemination. The professional development program includes both emerging topics in geoscience and faculty development workshops. Two emerging topics workshops are being offered each year, one in an interdisciplinary field related to Earth systems and one in geoscience pedagogy. Mature topical workshops, based on successful previous work, include: course design workshops, workshops for early career faculty, and workshops for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows preparing for careers in academia. Web resources developed by the project provide a collection of background resources and are designed to engage participants in on-going discussion. The project also explores tutorials, synchronous discussion, and on-line courses for delivering workshop content. Participants in the workshops are expected to develop course materials based on the principle of actively engaging students in their own learning, test materials following the workshop, and ultimately contribute to the DLESE Collection and Community Center. Integration of workshop planning and web-resource development are combined in a unique on-line resource aimed at extending the workshop experience far beyond those who attend the face-to-face workshops and beyond the lifetime of the grant.