Geoscience Education Workshops

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Explore rich materials developed through hundreds of past workshops. Workshops have included a broad range of topics from preparing for an academic career to teaching energy awareness and teaching about risk and resilience.

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Through its On the Cutting Edge Professional Development Program and its sponsorship of partner efforts NAGT promotes a wide range of faculty development and topical workshops. These events provide opportunities for faculty to learn more about pedagogy, to share their classroom and professional experiences and teaching materials, and to discuss what works and what's needed in geoscience education. If you are interested in getting a workshop or project sponsored, you can apply through the session, event, and program page.

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On the Cutting Edge Events

Earth Educators' Rendezvous

Annual conference aimed at improving undergraduate Earth education. Events will include workshops, oral and poster sessions, plenary talks, and working groups.

Traveling Workshop Program

The NAGT Traveling Workshops Program brings national leaders in geoscience education to your campus or regional event to help faculty develop stronger courses or departments or a mixture of both.

Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career

This workshop, for tenure-track early career faculty, includes sessions on effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional & personal responsibilities, and time management.

NAGT-Sponsored Events

Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards

The NAGT supports workshops to help implementation of the framework for K-12 science education, the foundation for the Next Generation Science Standards.