On the Cutting Edge: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF

马里兰州的大学已被授予一个奖项主办题为“早期职业地球科学教师：教学，研究和管理你的职业生涯”，在2017年7月研讨会。这个为期五天的研讨会的目标是提供具体的技能，以支持教师在他们的教学和研究责任的最初几年。参与者将了解基于学科的教育研究，分享教学的想法和策略，考虑保持积极研究和学术实践的成功策略，讨论作为早期职业教师的生活，并留下管理他们在学术界职业生涯的材料和工具。在教师职业生涯的开始影响他们可以有一个职业生涯的长期影响，以及对改善地球科学教育和指导显着的，次要的影响。在研讨会上形成的网络将有助于减轻早期职业教师所表达的过载和孤立的共同感受。以前的研讨会表明，教师受益于其他教授的听力技巧;发展支持网络;并在他们的学术生涯的头几年制定战略研究，教学和管理计划。该奖项的资金将为举办讲习班提供资源，并为那些机构无法支持其参加的参加者提供奖学金。该研讨会是与国家地球科学教师协会（NAGT）合作举办的专业发展研讨会前沿计划。讲习班将向与会者宣传教学法方面的最佳做法。本着这一精神，讲习班负责人将在讲习班期间示范有效的教学做法，例如主动学习技巧和安排反思时间。在整个研讨会期间，领导者将使用各种方法积极吸引参与者，包括小型和大型小组讨论，短期解决问题的任务，审查和/或尝试活动，以及预定的思考和写作时间。

The University of Maryland has been granted an award to host a workshop entitled "Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career", in July 2017. The goal of this five-day workshop is to provide concrete skills to support faculty in the early years of their teaching and research responsibilities. The participants will learn about discipline-based educational research, share ideas and strategies for teaching, consider successful strategies for maintaining an active research and scholarly practice, discuss life as an early-career faculty member, and leave with materials and tools for managing their career in academia. Influencing faculty at the beginning of their careers can have a career-long impact, as well as a notable, secondary impact on improving Geoscience education and mentoring. The networks that will form at the workshop will serve to alleviate common feelings of overload and isolation expressed by early career faculty. Previous workshops have indicated that faculty benefit from hearing tips from other professors; developing a network of support; and in making strategic research, teaching, and management plans for the first several years of their academic careers. The funds from this award will provide resources to implement the workshop and to support scholarships for participants whose institutions are not able to support their participation. This workshop is offered in partnership with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) On the Cutting Edge program of professional development workshops. The workshop will advocate for best practices in pedagogy for participants. In that vein, the workshop leaders will model effective pedagogical practices during the workshop, for example active learning techniques and incorporating time for reflection. Leaders will engage the participants actively throughout the workshop using a variety of methods including small and large group discussions, short problem-solving tasks, reviewing and/or trying out activities, and scheduled thinking and writing time.