[received on Wed., Aug. 30]
Fwd: call for abstracts for an educational session at American Geophysical
Union meeting December 5-9. The abstracts are due on-line on Sept. 7.
Dear Colleague,
Seize the opportunity to submit abstracts for contributed papers to
an exciting educational session at the December AGU meeting in San
Francisco: Session ED17 "Teacher Professional Development Programs
Promoting Authentic Scientific Research in the Classroom."
The session will focus on research experiences for teachers, the
roles of scientists and education specialists, and authentic
scientific research in the classroom. Specifically we are interested
in soliciting contributions from scientists, education specialists,
and teachers who are or have been directly involved with teacher
research experiences. (Abstracts submitted electronically are due:
September 7, 2006 at 2359UT.)
--Do you have a program you want to tell us about? We would enjoy
hearing from professional development programs that incorporate
authentic scientific research.
--Do you have an internship program? We would value shared
experiences from industry; from NSF-supported programs; from other
teacher-scientist partnerships. The perspectives of people from
other countries would add further dimension to the session.
--We have a keen interest in hearing from exceptional teachers who
can share their experiences and how they have successfully
transferred the research experience to their classrooms.
--We are planning to span a broad range of disciplines, institutions,
agencies, and projects.
The description of the session is listed below. We hope you can join
us in making this a successful session for a third year in a row.
The on-line submission form for abstracts is available from the AGU
WWW site at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/.
AGU policy allows one "education" abstract to be submitted in
addition to a "science" abstract.
The AGU Fall Meeting will be held December 5 to 9 in San Francisco. For
more information, please feel free to contact the session conveners
listed below. If you would like to view last year's two oral sessions
and one poster session, visit http://www.noao.edu/education/agu/.
Sincerely,
Connie Walker, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 520-318-8535,
cwalker@noao.edu
Steven K. Croft, National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
520-318-8495, scroft@noao.edu
Veronique Robigou, University of Washington, 206-543-9282,
vero@ocean.washington.edu
Gail Scowcroft, University of Rhode Island, 401-874-6486,
gailscow@gso.uri.edu
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AGU Session ED17: "Teacher Professional Development Programs
Promoting Authentic Scientific Research in the Classroom"
The session will focus on informing scientists, educators, education
researchers, evaluators and funding agency program officers on
efforts to provide K-12 teachers with authentic research experiences
in science and engineering. Presentations should highlight best
practices for the 'Teacher Research Experience' (TRE) model.
Presentations by those who design, facilitate, evaluate, and fund TRE
programs are especially encouraged, as well as presentations by
teachers and scientists who have participated in such programs.
...
Presentations on new models for long and short-term teacher research
experiences are invited from the fields of space science,
environmental science, atmospheric science, earth science,
oceanography, etc. Scientist-teacher research teams are particularly
encouraged to submit abstracts for the session.