Just wanted to give folks a heads-up on this:
http://i2e2.olin.edu/summer2010/program.php
"This institute is designed to support you in creating and leading
curricular change and in addressing the needs of 21st century students.
Through participatory design exercises, case studies, and presentations
from experts, you will learn about, experience, and design new and
meaningful STEM curricula. Program sessions will help you to:
* Understand state of the art research in STEM education and
current best practices
* Anticipate the needs of today's student body and the curricular
practices that engage and empower today's students
* Design solutions that are appropriate for your institutional context
* Identify structural and cultural obstacles to change and create
strategies to reshape them
* Practice effective leadership to build successful solutions for
curricular change
You will work together with others from similar institutions, working on
similar projects, to develop concrete action plans for curricular
change. Sessions will be highly participatory and you will be challenged
to continually consider new ideas and put novel approaches into practice."
I'm applying to see if they're interested in workshopping the POSSE
curriculum design there - I really want to have POSSE-as-a-program hit
hard by actual academics (like you folks) since you're the ones who know
best how this can be helpful to you in the academic space, and the
feedback so far has been *incredibly* helpful (a special thank-you to
Matt and Karl on this).
--Mel
PS: Taking POSSE to this workshop will affect the design of later
summers more, since the workshop is in the middle of all the POSSEs
happening this summer.
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