Planning Grant: DIG Texas - A Workshop on Diversity and Innovation in Geosciences in Texas

该奖项支持为期2.5天的研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自德克萨斯州35所高等教育机构的地球科学家和地球科学教育工作者，讨论提高该州K-12学生地球科学素养的策略。该项目是由德克萨斯农工大学地球科学学院、德克萨斯大学杰克逊地球科学学院和美国地球物理联合会合作完成的。讲习班的目标是：支持德克萨斯州开设的一门新的高中地球与空间科学顶点课程的教师；提高德州学生和教师对地球科学的认识和能力；并且，发展现有地球科学教育项目之间的联系，以促进协同作用并扩大其影响。通过实现这些目标，德克萨斯州的大量少数民族（主要是西班牙裔）人口为扩大未被充分代表的群体在地球科学领域的参与提供了一个绝佳的机会。讲习班的预期成果包括建立一个全州范围的地球科学家和地球科学教育工作者网络，通过区域中心机构进行改革和加强与地球科学有关的教育；一个促进全州交流的网站；还有一份研讨会报告。

This award supports a 2.5 day workshop that will bring together geoscientists and geoscience educators from 35 institutions of higher education located across the state of Texas, to discuss strategies for improving geosciences literacy among the state's K-12 student population. The project is a collaboration between Texas A&M University College of Geosciences, the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences, and the American Geophysical Union. The goals of the workshop are to: support teachers of a new high school capstone Earth and Space Science class being offered in Texas; increase appreciation and competency of Texas students and teachers regarding the geosciences; and, develop linkages among existing geosciences education programs, in order to promote synergy and multiply their impacts. The large minority (dominantly Hispanic) population within Texas offers an outstanding opportunity for broadening participation of underrepresented groups within the geosciences, through achievement of these goals. Anticipated outcomes of the workshop include a state-wide network of geoscientists and geoscience educators engaged in reforming and strengthening Earth science-related education and organized through regional hub institutions; a web site to facilitate state-wide communication; and a workshop report.