Some subscribers might be interested in this FORWARD of a POD post by
Mark Connolly. Note the 9 April 2004 application deadline indicated
at the bottom of the FORWARD.
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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:27:46 -0600
From: Mark Connolly <mrconnolly@WISC.EDU>
Subject: NSF Workshop on New Approaches and Techniques for Teaching Science
Please share information about the following NSF-sponsored workshop with
faculty who may be interested. Note the 9 April 2004 deadline for applications.
Thanks,
Mark Connolly
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Openings are available for a NSF-sponsored workshop on "New Approaches and
Techniques for Teaching Science: Addressing Environmental Problems to
Stimulate Undergraduate Learning." The workshop will be held Sat, Jun 26
through Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio,
TX.
The goals of this workshop are to assist science faculty with the following:
-- using environmental problems in their community to stimulate students¼
interest in science;
-- finding out what their students are actually learning; and
-- writing competitive proposals for external funding that will support your
efforts to improve student learning.
The theme of this workshop is „Impacts of Urban Runoff on Surface Water
Quality."
Past participants in these workshops have included faculty from a wide range
of disciplines, including biology/life sciences, geology, chemistry,
environmental science, engineering, and computer science, representing
two-year, four-year, master¼s degree-granting and research institutions.
All applicants accepted into the program will receive housing and meals at
Our Lady of the Lake University. Each participant¼s home institution is
expected to demonstrate support for this NSF-supported professional
development activity by funding travel to the workshop and, possibly, to a
professional society meeting to present results of the participant¼s
workshop-related activities in a subsequent year. In special cases, support
for travel is available.
This workshop will disseminate for adaptation and implementation curricular
materials that have already been developed and tested by faculty across the
nation. We will also introduce you to mechanisms for assessing the impact
that these new materials have on your students and ways that you can secure
external funding to support your curricular innovations. Participants in
this workshop will return to their home institutions with expanded and
updated scientific knowledge, new strategies, methods, and techniques for
improving undergraduate science education by addressing environmental
problems in their local communities, and new methods for assessing learning
by their students and for evaluating their own changes as teachers.
For more information and a brochure about the program, contact Catherine
Rainwater (rainc@lake.ollusa.edu) or James Haynes (jhaynes@brockport.edu),
or visit the project website to find out more and download an application
<http://www.envsci-ed.brockport.edu>. APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO DR.
RAINWATER NO LATER THAN APRIL 9, 2004
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