EARTH EDUCATORS’ RENDEZVOUS
July 13-17, 2015 University of Colorado, Boulder Registration is open for the inaugural Earth Educators’ Rendezvous this summer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The 2015 first annual Earth Educators' Rendezvous will bring together researchers and practitioners working in all aspects of undergraduate Earth education. We welcome faculty from all disciplines who are interested in improving their teaching about the Earth, administrators from geoscience departments and interdisciplinary programs that want to become stronger, and education researchers of all types. Join the Rendezvous for 2 or 3 days or stay the whole week. T he morning workshop program has been finalized and is open for registratio n on a first-come, first-serve basis (workshop size is limited based on room capacity). Abstract Deadline is March 1: Contributions will be organized under two broad areas, with a limited number of concurrent sessions. The contributed program will be designed to complement the workshop sessions and even dynamically feed into the content of the workshops. I. Teaching and Program Examples : exploration of the full range of what people are doing in their programs and classrooms. This includes innovative and effective activities, techniques and course design as well as practices focused on particular topics such as risk reduction, environmental justice, climate change, and sustainability. 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. Within these areas, sub-themes will be organized based on abstracts submitted. We also encourage attendees to suggest sub-themes, and even organize related presentations as a set on your Abstract Submission Form. Abstract Deadline: March 1 Working Group Application Deadline: February 16 Registration Deadline: April 13 For additional information and to register: Earth Educators' Rendezvous http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/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.
