2025 Professional Development Offerings

What can NAGT do for you in 2025?

Whether you are trying to improve your teaching, preparing for the next step in your career, or looking to strengthen your department or program, NAGT has something to help you achieve that goal. NAGT's professional development events cover a variety of topics, formats, and schedules so you can find the activities that suit your needs.

Learn more about what NAGT has to offer:

For Careers

Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty

Join experienced leaders and other early career faculty members for a multi-day workshop on 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.

Apply by March 16

Date/time: June 22-26, 2025, with an optional virtual visit to NSF on June 27, 2025
Location: Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
Audience: faculty in their first three years of a faculty position

Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop

What kind of institution is right for you? How can you craft strong research and teaching statements? What does it take to get your first grant? How do you meet the criteria for tenure? This workshop will explore these kinds of questions and other important facets of an academic career.

Register by July 30

Date/time: August 4-8, 2025, from 8am-11am PT | 9am-12pm MT | 10am-1pm CT | 11am-2pm ET
Format: online
Audience: grad students, post-docs, and others who are interested in pursuing academic careers in the geosciences

For Teaching

Course Design Workshop

Are you developing a new course or revising a course you have taught before? This workshop will help you use backwards design to generate assessments and instructional activities that meet both content and skills-based objectives.

Register by May 28

Date/time: Wednesdays, June 4, 11, and 18, 2025, from 9am-11:30am PT | 10am-12:30pm MT | 11am-1:30pm CT | 12pm-2:30pm ET
Format: online
Audience: anyone teaching courses in the Earth Sciences

NAGT Webinar Series

NAGT webinars provide opportunities to learn from peers as well as experts, and are designed to provide ample opportunity for discussion and interaction. Webinars feature novel and innovative work in Earth education research, pedagogy, and teaching materials.

Date/time: view the schedule
Format: online
Audience: anyone interested in Earth education

For Departments

Traveling Workshops Program

The Traveling Workshops Program (TWP) brings NAGT's professional development program to you, working with you to customize a workshop to meet your group's needs. All workshops include personalized facilitation from two experienced leaders; a dedicated, private web space to keep track of resources and work; and a focus on actionable work, including a collective or individual action plan for moving forward after the workshop.

For 2025-26 only, we are reducing the fee for a new workshop theme: Transforming your introductory course. Workshops within this theme bring together everyone involved in teaching an introductory geoscience course, including faculty, adjuncts, teaching assistants, and partners at nearby institutions who teach the same course. Working as a team, we will explore how to actively engage students in introductory courses in authentic investigation and productive discourse to promote a learning environment where everyone can participate and build their confidence and skills in science. For 2025-26 only, the fee for this in-person workshop is reduced to $2000 for up to four workshops. Submit your request today!

Request a workshop

Date/time: scheduled to meet your needs
Format: in-person or online
Audience: departments, programs, organizations, or groups