The Earth Educators’ Rendezvous taking place July 18-22, in Madison, WI.
The Rendezvous provides a unique opportunity to present and discuss your work with an audience of Earth Educators. Please make note of the following upcoming deadlines:
Contributed Program: Oral, Poster, and Teaching Demonstration Sessions —Application Deadline March 1
Contributions will be organized under three broad areas, some of which will complement workshop sessions and even dynamically feed into workshop content. Sub-themes will be organized based on abstracts submitted. We encourage attendees to suggest sub-themes, and even organize related presentations as a set.
Oral and Poster Submissions via abstract:
- 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.
- Teaching, Curricula and Programs: exploration of the full range of what people are doing in their programs and classrooms. This includes innovative and effective activities, program and course design as well as practices focused on particular subjects such as risk mitigation, climate change, sustainability, and teaching with large data sets.
Proposals for Teaching Demonstrations:
III. Active Teaching Demonstrations: we are soliciting proposals for demonstrations of successful activities that could result in “take-homes” for attendees to use in their own teaching. Demonstrations should be an active, e.g. something that audience members participate in, or a video or slide show of students performing the activity. If you are interested in proposing a teaching demonstration, please fill out the proposal form by the March 1 deadline. You will be notified by April 1 if your demonstration has been accepted, at which point you will be asked to submit a full on-online activity description in the style of an On the Cutting Edge activity, or to update an already existing activity page.
Propose a Teaching Demonstration
Support for Specific Workshops
The following two workshops have additional funds available for travel support. These stipends are offered through funding designated for these specific workshops, and thus are offered only to those who register and participate in this workshop. If you receive funding through these workshop stipends, you will not be eligible for the general Rendezvous travel funds above.
GeoNeeds: Broadening Participation in the Geosciences Workforce Support
Travel Stipends to pay for participation in the GeoNeeds workshop are available through the Geo-Needs Project. We will support ~20 participants (EER registration, travel to Madison WI, stipend for lodging and meals) for participants from MRIs and 2YCs that serve primarily students from underrepresented groups. Participants who are awarded this travel stipend are expected to: a) attend the full week of EER events, b) participate in an opening dinner to learn more about GeoNeeds and to meet the other participants in this cohort; c) attend the mini-workshop on Thursday and Friday; and d) complete an Action Plan for increasing instruction of Earth Science at your home institution. Apply by March 1st. Notice of acceptance will be sent by March 15.
Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop Support
Depending on availability of funds, we will also award stipends to post-docs and graduate students for the Preparing for an Academic Career workshop who submit an application by April 1 and will notify recipients by April 15.
We hope to see you in Madison!
Krista Herbstrith, Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Science Education Resource Center—SERC,
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
507-222-5634, fax 507-222-5175
kherbstr@carleton.edu
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