Effective Teaching Strategies Workshops and Sessions for the 2019 Earth Educators? Rendezvous

2019 年地球教育工作者的有效教学策略研讨会和会议？

• 批准号: 1912471
• 负责人: Katherine Ryker
• 金额: $ 4.78万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1912471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Effective; Teaching; Strategies; Workshops; Sessions

Since geoscience content is not readily found as a core science in most U.S. K-12 schools, students are often not exposed to the geosciences until later in their pre-college matriculation if at all. Even when students encounter geoscience courses or departments as undergraduates, the foggy line to career opportunities and dated teaching methods could be primary causes of high attrition rates. A major way to revamp the undergraduate experience in the geosciences (with increased student retention) is through faculty development efforts that focus more on creating active learning environments than perpetuating unsuccessful traditional educational models. Engaging the geoscience community in rich conversations about the goals and content of geoscience and other courses, has the potential to impact many thousands of students across the US. As more faculty attempt reformed teaching practices in their classrooms, the community of faculty using active learning practices in their classrooms will become more common.The proposed suite of The Effective Teaching Strategies workshops has been designed in response to the stated needs of the geoscience education community attending the EER, as well as anecdotally by science colleagues, especially those in non-geology disciplines such as atmospheric sciences who have historically not been as well represented at the EER. The proposed workshops and activities will promotethe use of active learning strategies in the geosciences through the sharing of best practices and promoting dialogue between like-minded colleagues. The goals of the workshop are to: 1. Share best teaching practices for geoscience courses, including geologic, atmospheric and oceanSciences,2. Engage geoscientists from multiple institution types (i.e. HBCUs, community colleges, primarilyundergraduate or research) in conversations about improving introductory and majors courses,3. Promote networking among participants to broaden perspectives and connect beyond EER,4. Nurture a community of future leaders for the geoscience education community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

由于地球科学内容在大多数美国K-12学校中并不容易被视为核心科学，所以学生通常直到大学预科阶段才接触到地球科学。即使学生在本科阶段接触过地球科学课程或院系，职业机会的模糊界限和过时的教学方法也可能是高流失率的主要原因。改善地球科学本科体验（提高学生留存率）的一个主要方法是通过教师发展努力，更多地关注于创造积极的学习环境，而不是延续不成功的传统教育模式。让地球科学社区参与关于地球科学和其他课程的目标和内容的丰富对话，有可能影响美国成千上万的学生。随着越来越多的教师在课堂上尝试改革教学实践，在课堂上使用主动学习实践的教师社区将变得更加普遍。“有效教学策略”研讨会的建议套件是为了响应参加EER的地球科学教育界的既定需求，以及科学界同事的轶事，特别是那些非地质学学科的人，如大气科学，他们在历史上没有在EER中得到很好的代表。拟议的讲习班和活动将通过分享最佳做法和促进志同道合的同事之间的对话，促进在地球科学中使用主动学习策略。研讨会的目标是：1。分享地球科学课程的最佳教学实践，包括地质、大气和海洋科学；2 .与来自不同机构类型的地球科学家（例如HBCUs，社区学院，主要是本科生或研究人员）进行对话，讨论如何改进入门和专业课程。促进参与者之间的网络，拓宽视野，超越EER。为地球科学教育界培育未来的领袖。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。