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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NAGT sponsors faculty development and topical workshops that result in the creation of new resources. 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-Sponsered Events

Workshop: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Earth and Environmental Sciences: Supporting the Success of All Students

April 10-12, 2019: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

This workshop emphasizes understanding your current students and community, recognizing barriers to and opportunities for inclusion, developing strategies to support all students, helping them thrive in their education, and launching them onto the next phase of their life or career. Workshop sessions will involve activities focused on strategic analysis and planning, program design and instructional strategies coupled with opportunities to learn about relevant research and experience.

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.