Collaborative Research: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF

早期职业科学教师通常面临着在新的学术环境中建立自己，准备新课程和开始新的研究的重大挑战。提供专业发展和交流的机会可以帮助新的科学教师建立一个成功的职业生涯框架，从而有助于改善本科教育，加强科学研究和奖学金。该基金支持的研讨会是一个完善的专业发展系列的延续，旨在帮助早期职业教师在他们的工作、教学、研究和指导的主要职责中蓬勃发展。通过与国家地球科学教师协会（NAGT）的合作，一个由地球、大气、海洋和行星科学领域经验丰富的教师领导组成的团队每年夏天将在马里兰大学为大约75名早期职业教师举办三次年度研讨会。在每个研讨会上，早期职业教师将学习教学中的最佳实践，考虑保持积极研究和学术实践的成功策略，并配备建立成功职业所需的资源和工具。该系列研讨会将强调教师在扩大科学参与和促进科学多样性、公平性和包容性方面的作用。每个研讨会将在全国范围内发布广告，邀请来自所有学院和大学的申请者，这些学院和大学的早期职业教师负责教学、研究和指导。该项目将为参加研讨会的教师提供支持，特别是来自两年制学院的教师。在研讨会期间，领导团队将模拟有效的教学实践，如主动学习技术，小型和大型小组讨论，解决问题的任务，以及参与者反思和制定自己的行动计划的预定时间。领导者通过这些会议与一对一的对话、特定学科的会议以及对教学和研究计划的反馈来吸引参与者。工作坊活动将每年评估一次，并将根据每一批早期职业教师的需求和兴趣进行修改。项目负责人将与NAGT合作，为研讨会负责人编写培训课程，介绍如何通过教学、研究和指导促进科学领域的多样性、公平性和包容性。这些方法将融入到研讨会中，参与者将制定个人战略计划，以改善其本国机构科学领域的多样性、公平性和包容性。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。

Early career science faculty commonly face significant challenges to establish themselves in a new academic environment, prepare new courses, and begin new research. Providing professional development and networking opportunities can help new science faculty establish the framework for a successful career, which in turn can help to improve undergraduate education and strengthen scientific research and scholarship. The workshops supported by this grant are a continuation of a well-established professional development series designed to help early career faculty flourish in the primary duties of their work, teaching, research, and mentoring. Through a partnership with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), a team of experienced faculty leaders in Earth, atmospheric, marine, and planetary sciences will host three annual workshops at the University of Maryland for approximately seventy-five early career faculty each summer. At each workshop, early career faculty will learn about best practices in teaching, consider successful strategies for maintaining an active research and scholarly practice, and become equipped with resources and tools needed to establish a successful career. The workshop series will emphasize the role of faculty in broadening participation and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science. Each workshop will be nationally advertised to invite applicants from all colleges and universities where early career faculty are tasked with teaching, research, and mentoring. The project will provide support for faculty to attend the workshop, especially faculty from two-year colleges. During workshop sessions, the leadership team will model effective pedagogical practices such as active learning techniques, small and large group discussions, problem-solving tasks, and scheduled time for participants to reflect and develop their own action plans. Leaders engage the participants through these sessions along with one-on-one conversations, discipline-specific sessions, and by providing feedback on teaching and research plans. Workshop activities will be evaluated annually and will be modified according to the needs and interests of each cohort of early career faculty. The project leaders will partner with NAGT to produce training curriculum for workshop leaders in methods of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science through teaching, research, and mentoring. These methods will be infused in workshop sessions and participants will develop personal strategic plans for improving diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science at their home institutions.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.