[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: [Cuttingedge] On the Cutting Edge 2011-2012 workshops and events

Fri Nov 18 13:41:19 MST 2011

These events might be of interest to some of you.

Paula

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Subject: 	[Cuttingedge] On the Cutting Edge 2011-2012 workshops and events
Date: 	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:15:38 +0000
From: 	Heather Macdonald <rhmacd at wm.edu>
To: 	cuttingedge at serc.carleton.edu <cuttingedge at serc.carleton.edu>

Greetings,

/On the Cutting Edge/ is pleased to announce this year's workshops and 
events. The workshop schedule gives links to the individual workshop and 
event web pages (including the online application/registration forms).
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/workshops.html

NOTE: Application deadlines for some workshops/events are coming up very 
soon.

*Geologic Hazards Webinars
*Events on: November 18, 2011, January 13, 2012, & February 10, 2012*
*/Monthly online seminars that will address some of the many issues 
surrounding hazards and teaching about hazards in the geoscience.
/Conveners: Katryn Wiese, David Mogk, and John McDaris
Registration deadline: 1 week prior to the event. Join us for any or all.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hazards/webinars/index.html

*Pursuing an Academic Career in the Geosciences Webinar Series
*Events on: January 20, February 15, March 9, April 10, & May (date 
TBD), 2012*
*/A series of webinars for graduate students and post-docs, including 
topics such as preparing for an academic job interview, motivating 
students to learn, developing learning goals and linking them to 
assessment and teaching strategies, and time management while developing 
a research program./
Join one or more monthly events.
Conveners: Rachel Beane and Michael Williams
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerdev/AcademicCareer2012/index.html

*Spatial Thinking Journal Club *(A Series of Virtual Meetings)
Events on: January 26, February 23, March 22, April 19, & May 17, 2012
/Participants will read and discuss a series of articles that explore 
the cognitive aspects of spatial thinking and their implications for 
geoscience education across five 1-hour virtual sessions./
Conveners: Mary Hegarty, Carol Ormand, Eric Riggs, and Tim Shipley
Registration deadline: November 21, 2011
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/spatial/journalclub2012/index.html

*Problem Solving and Problem-based Learning Journal Club *(A Series of 
Virtual Meetings)
Events on: January 24, February 21, March 27, April 24, & May 29, 2012
/Participants will be read and discuss a series of articles that explore 
the cognitive aspects of problem solving and their implications for 
geoscience education across five 1-hour virtual sessions./
Conveners: Ellen Iverson, Cinzia Cervato, Craig Ogilvie, and Marcy Osgood
Registration deadline: November 30, 2011
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/problem_solve/journalclub12/index.html

*Teaching about Time *(A Face-to-Face Workshop)*
*February 26-28, 2012 - Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
/A workshop aimed to provide opportunities to explore temporal concepts 
across the curriculum and to discuss implications for teaching and 
learning. Key temporal concepts include time scales and timelines, 
ranging from the scale of human history to Deep Time; the rates of 
natural processes, particularly geological and biological processes; and 
the cumulative effects of rare, high impact events and of very slow, 
long duration events./
Conveners: Erica Crespi, Cathy Manduca, Carol Ormand, and Steve Semken
Application deadline: January 2, 2012
*http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/time/workshop2012/index.html*

*Virtual Course Design - Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry* (A 
Hybrid Face-to-Face/Virtual Workshop)
Conveners: Barbara Tewksbury and David McConnell
Option of face-to-face kickoff at SEGSA (Saturday, March 31) or virtual 
kickoff on Sunday, April 1
Three additional virtual sessions in April, May, and September.
Convener: Barbara Tewksbury plus another TBA
Application deadline: February 20, 2012
*
**Teaching Environmental Geology *(A Face-to-Face Workshop)
June 3-7, 2012 - Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
/This workshop is designed specifically for instructors of Environmental 
Geology with session topics focused on exploring ways to effectively 
teach environmental geology in undergraduate Earth science courses./
Conveners: Katryn Wiese, David Mogk, and Devin Castendyk
Registration deadline: March 1, 2012

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/environmental/workshop12/index.html

*Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and 
Managing Your Career* (A Face-to-Face Workshop)
June 10-14, 2012, with optional visit to NSF on June 15 - College of 
William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
/A multi-day workshop for full-time faculty who are in the first four 
years of their teaching career with a focus on topics including 
effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research 
program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing 
professional and personal responsibilities, and time management./
Conveners: Rachel Beane, Heather Macdonald, Richelle Allen-King, and 
Richard Yuretich
/Application deadline: March 1, 2012//
/http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer2012/index.html

*Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences* (A Face-to-Face 
Workshop for graduate students and post-docs)
June 27-30, 2012 - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
/This workshop is designed specifically for graduate students and 
post-doctoral fellows who are interested in pursuing academic careers in 
the geosciences. Faculty members and administrators will provide 
guidance and information that will help participants to be stronger 
candidates for academic positions and to succeed in academic jobs. 
Session topics focus on becoming both a successful teacher and researcher./
Conveners: Heather Macdonald and David McConnell
/Application deadline: March 8, 2012//
/http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep2012/index.html
*
**Teaching Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics in the 21st 
Century*
/Tentative/: July 15-19, 2012 - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with 
optional field trip on July 15.
Conveners: Barbara Tewksbury, Michael Wysession, Gregory Baker, Paul 
Karabinos, and several others TBA
/Application deadline: February 3, 2012/

* *

*Ongoing Projects*

*Classroom Observation Project*
/Cutting Edge is sponsoring a research project to observe geoscience 
teaching in classrooms across the US. This project makes use of the 
Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP). You can find out more 
information on the website about observing a class or volunteering to 
have your class observed./
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/certop/index.html

//

/On the Cutting Edge/, a professional development program for current 
and future geoscience faculty, is sponsored by the National Association 
for Geoscience Teachers and supported by grants from the CCLI program of 
the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science 
Foundation. We encourage you to visit the /Cutting Edge/ website and 
check out the many online resources.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/index.html

<http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/index.html%0b%0b%0b>Heather 
Macdonald, College of William and Mary
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
David Mogk, Montana State University
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College
David McConnell, North Carolina State University
Katryn Wiese, City College of San Francisco
Michael Wysession, Washington University

Heather Macdonald

Department of Geology

College of William and Mary

PO Box 8795

Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795

757-221-2443

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