http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/index.html
July 13-17, 2015
University of Colorado, Boulder
The Early Registration deadline is coming up April 13
The Earth Educators’ Rendezvous is coming into focus. On the website, you can now find full information on the 27 workshops, 4 plenaries and more than 150 contributed presentations. Program themes are fleshed out, and it is now easy to tell which days are the ones that best match your interests. We hope that everyone who teaches about the Earth from across the sciences, social sciences, humanities and engineering will find ideas and activities of interest. You will find tracks to help you in your role as a instructor or program leader or department chair, to improve your ability to work with diverse students and to support the success of all, and to learn from research on teaching and learning.
http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/program_table/index.html
Would you like to showcase what you’re doing to researchers and practitioners working in all aspects of undergraduate Earth education? Do you have activities, pedagogy or research to share? Want some feedback and have your work be part of community discussions?
If the contributed program inspires you, it is not too late to submit an abstract for a poster that will show how your work contributes to the discussion. Oral and poster sessions alike are designed to support discussion, interaction and synthesis.
https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/abstract_sub/contributed_program.html
While mornings of the Rendezvous will be devoted to workshops on a variety of topics, a critically important and integral part of the Rendezvous will be the afternoons devoted to oral and poster presentations by you. Contributed abstracts will be organized under two broad areas, but within these areas, sub-themes will be organized based on abstracts submitted. We encourage you to suggest sub-themes, and even organize related presentations as a set on the Abstract Submission Form. We hope that organizing contributions under participant–suggested themes will foster conversation around topics central to those attending the meeting.
The two broad areas are:
I. Teaching and Program Examples: exploration of the full range of what people are doing in their programs and classrooms. Share innovative and effective activities, techniques and course design as well as practices focused on particular topics.
II. Education Research and Disciplinary-Based Education Research: research on learning and cognition, and investigations of how teaching and learning takes place in an earth science context, taking into account the particular priorities, practices and worldview of our discipline.
Newly announced is an InTeGrate sponsored review camp on the Sunday prior to the Rendezvous (July 12). If you are interested in helping to peer review activities that are part of the InTeGrate, Cutting Edge or other SERC collections, you are invited to apply to be a reviewer. We have space for 25 reviewers each of whom will receive a $500 stipend in exchange for 5 reviews in advance of and 20 reviews during the camp.
http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/review_camp.html
The Early Registration deadline is coming up April 13. This is the moment to sign up. We hope to see you in Boulder!
https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/registration/index.html
Part of the InTeGrate and On the Cutting Edge
Programs for Improved Undergraduate Education
On the Cutting Edge is managed by NAGT
The Earth Educators’ Rendezvous is supported by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). Join today and receive a discount on your registration. Your membership will help ensure that this event can continue to serve geoscience educators.
The National Science Foundation is providing support through the InTeGrate STEP Center for the design and development of the Rendezvous.
Cathy Manduca, Heather Macdonald, and Laurel Goodell
Earth Educators’ Rendezvous Conference Chairs
we will be doing a workshop on READ for the EARTH at the Rendevous
David E. Blockstein, Ph.D.
Member, InTeGRATE Leadership Team, Founding Executive Secretary, Council of Environmental Deans and Directors Senior Scientist National Council for Science and the Environment 1101 17th St. NW #250 Washington DC 20036 202-207-0004 direct 202-530-5810 general 202-628-4311 fax David@NCSEonline.org www.ncseonline.org
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