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<td>[Cuttingedge] Opportunity to Participate in Observation
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<td>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:27:31 -0600</td>
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<td>Cathy Manduca <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cmanduca@carleton.edu"><cmanduca@carleton.edu></a></td>
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Greeting Cutting Edge colleagues -
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<div>Today is a great day for opportunities! </div>
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<div>On the Cutting Edge is engaged in an observation study of
undergraduate geoscience teaching across the country. We
recently received funding to expand this study and are now
looking for individuals who would like to become observers and
for faculty who would like to have their classes observed. </div>
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<div>We will run the next training session for observers in late
January. </div>
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<div>Learn more below or visit the website: <a
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<div>Cathy Manduca</div>
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As part of On the Cutting Edge Professional Development
program for Geoscience
Faculty t<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>Classroom
Observation Project</u></b> (</span><a
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href="http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/certop/"><span
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has been collecting observations of teaching in a cross
section of college
geoscience courses across the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">With your
help, this project can become
the most extensive direct observation program of college and
university
teaching in any STEM discipline. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>We
invite you to participate in this exciting project.<span
style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>There are two</span> ways that you can be
involved, one
entails little more than doing what you do already, while the
other provides
training in a new skill that can inform your own teaching. <br>
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1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Willing to be
trained as an observer?</b><br>
We are also seeking faculty to be trained as observers.
Faculty selected as
Observers are expected to complete an online training tutorial
and subsequently
make approximately 10 paid observations of geoscience classes
using a standard
protocol. Observers will receive a $200 stipend for each
completed observation
that contributes to the needed demographics in our data set.
Certified
observers will have the option of participating in data
analysis meetings and
dissemination of research results. <br>
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2) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Willing to be
observed?</b><br>
We are seeking geoscience faculty willing to be observed
directly or
video-recorded in a range of geoscience courses across the
country. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">In
most cases, the faculty observer will travel to your
institution to observe
your class. Each participating instructor is asked to
complete a brief
four-question interview with the observer and a short online
survey that helps
compare the observation data with the results of the 2009
national geoscience
faculty survey. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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In return for your participation, you will receive a
description of how different components of your teaching fall
on a spectrum
ranging from traditional lecture to student-centered
instruction. You will also
receive information about the range of scores in the pool of
classrooms we
observe. We hope that it is an opportunity for you to learn
more about your
teaching style and that these insights may help you in achieve
your personal
teaching goals and, where appropriate, support efforts to meet
or surpass
institutional teaching standards.</span><span
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If you are
interested in either being trained as observer or in having
your class observed,
please go to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/certop/participate.html">http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/certop/participate.html</a>
and complete the short participation form. <br>
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<div>Cathryn A. Manduca</div>
<div style="line-height: normal; ">Director, Science
Education Resource Center</div>
<div style="line-height: normal; ">Executive
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<div style="line-height: normal; ">Carleton College</div>
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