[A forwarded message, received on Aug. 21, 2007. Jane Jackson]
Hello, Jane,
Would you be able to place on your Arizona Physics Teachers, Ap-
physics and physhare listservs (or any other listservs you think
appropriate) the following call for abstracts for an educational
session at American Geophysical Union meeting December 10-14? The
abstracts themselves are due on-line on Sept. 6. A quick listing
would be very appreciated. Thanks,
Connie
Connie Walker, Ph.D.
Senior Science Education Specialist
Associate Scientist, NOAO
950 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719
520-318-8535
cwalker@noao.edu
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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 ED13 "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 6, 2007 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 fourth year in a row.
The on-line submission form for abstracts is available from the AGU
WWW site at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/.
AGU policy allows one "education" abstract to be submitted in
addition to a "science" abstract.
The AGU Fall Meeting will be held December 10-14 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
Gail Scowcroft, University of Rhode Island, 401-874-6486,
gailscow@gso.uri.edu
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Session Description:
AGU Session ED13: "Teacher Professional Development Programs
Promoting Authentic Scientific Research in the Classroom"
This session will focus on scientists, educators, education
researchers, evaluators and funding agency program officers providing
K-12 teachers with authentic research experiences in science and
engineering. Presentations should highlight best practices for the
ìTeacher Research Experienceî (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.
Suggested areas for presenters to address can include but are not
limited to:
-- The enhanced transfer of knowledge from the teacher/researcher to
the students through implementing a research program within the
classroom
-- How these teacher professional development programs play an
essential role in science education reform and teacher retention and
renewal
-- Examples of effective programs and techniques for assessing TRE
programs
-- The transformation of the educational environment into an
authentic research center
-- How best to prepare teachers to become part of scientific research
teams
-- The use of
o Online learning in teacher professional development
o Support systems for teacher researchers
o Research community collaboration and
o Program assessment and evaluation.
-- Examples of the value to the scientific community of involving
teachers in research
-- Recommendations for designing and implementing research
experiences that align with national, state, and/or local reform
efforts in science education
-- The framework for conceptual learning in terms of the curricula
and embedded research activities
Presentations on new or ongoing successful 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. Printed
and CD-based materials may be brought by participants to the session
to be distributed to attendees.