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

马里兰大学获得主办一个题为“早期职业地球科学教师：教学、研究和职业管理”的研讨会的奖项，该研讨会将于 2017 年 7 月举行。这个为期五天的研讨会的目标是提供具体技能，以支持教师早期的教学和研究职责。参与者将了解基于学科的教育研究，分享教学想法和策略，考虑维持活跃研究和学术实践的成功策略，讨论作为早期职业教员的生活，并在离开时获得管理其学术生涯的材料和工具。在教师职业生涯初期对其施加影响可能会对整个职业生涯产生影响，并对改善地球科学教育和指导产生显着的次要影响。研讨会上建立的网络将有助于缓解早期职业教师所表达的超负荷和孤立感。以前的研讨会表明，教师可以从其他教授的建议中受益。建立支持网络；并为他们学术生涯的前几年制定战略研究、教学和管理计划。该奖项的资金将为举办研讨会提供资源，并为机构无法支持其参与的参与者提供奖学金。该研讨会是与美国地球科学教师协会 (NAGT) 合作举办的专业发展研讨会的前沿计划。该研讨会将为参与者倡导教育学的最佳实践。本着这种精神，研讨会领导者将在研讨会期间示范有效的教学实践，例如主动学习技巧和纳入反思时间。领导者将使用各种方法在整个研讨会中积极吸引参与者，包括小型和大型小组讨论、简短的问题解决任务、回顾和/或尝试活动以及安排思考和写作时间。

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.