THE SUN-EARTH CONNECTION
An Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Newsletter
for the Sun-Earth Connection Science Community - and beyond!
August 29, 2002 Volume III, Issue 6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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=> 1. EPO SESSIONS AT FALL AGU – DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 5th!
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1. EPO SESSIONS AT AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (AGU) –
DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 5th!
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The electronic abstract deadline for the 2002 AGU fall meeting is at
1400 UT on September 5, or 10 AM EDT. For many of us, this means
that the effective deadline is September 4. The 2002 AGU Fall Meeting
is expected to draw a crowd of over 9,000 geophysicists from around the world.
Many education sessions will be presented, including those detailed in
the letter below. The letter also gives some guidelines for submissions,
including how to submit if you are not an AGU member.
Please see http://agu.org/meetings/fm02/
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From: Jim Thieman
thieman@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: "Teaching the Teachers," Fall AGU Meeting Session ED02
Hi,
You are receiving this message as a person who has been identified
as having expertise in "teaching teachers science." Perhaps you
know me through my work in the NASA Office of Space Science Sun-Earth
Connection Education Forum, or you may know one of my colleagues in
the education and outreach area. Stephanie Stockman, Frank Ireton,
and I are convening a session at the Fall American Geophysical
Union Meeting, Dec. 6-10 in San Francisco, sharing experiences in
educating teachers. We would like to invite you to contribute a
paper to the session. If you know of anyone else who might be
interested in contributing to the session please forward the
message.
The topic of the session is described below. I hope that you find
you have an interest and would like to share what you have learned
with others. Unfortunately, there is not much time until the
abstract deadline. Abstracts for papers must be submitted online
by 10:00 AM EDT September 5th, so effectively it is best to submit
by COB Wednesday, September 4th. Submitting an abstract will also
require payment of a $50 abstract fee usually paid by credit card
online while submitting the abstract ($60 if payment is by purchase
order, and $70 if the abstract is greater than 2600 characters but
less than 4000 characters). To submit an abstract go to
http://www.agu.org and follow the links to the Fall Meeting, 2002.
Then click on abstract submissions.
It would be good to read the submission guidelines since the
abstract entry process can sometimes be a little confusing.
If you read the submission guidelines you will know that you
either have to be an AGU member or sponsored by an AGU member.
I believe most of you are not AGU members so, where you may need
an AGU member sponsor number, please use mine which is 00324080.
If you are an AGU member you can submit an abstract as a first
author to an education session as well as submitting a first-
authored paper to the scientific sessions. Contact me about how to
do that.
The exact date of the session will not be determined until all
abstracts have been received and the number of participants in
each session can be compared to size and dates of rooms available,
etc. This will probably not be decided until late September or
early October. Because of refurbishment of the Moscone Center
there are a limited number of session rooms available this year
and it is anticipated that 2/3 of all presentations will be
posters, so it is quite possible you would be asked to present
by poster. We hope to be able to have the session scheduled
for either Sunday afternoon, Dec. 8 or Monday morning, Dec. 9,
but there is no guarantee and we do not have much control of
the process.
Usually the contributed talks are of the order of 12 minutes with
3 minutes left for discussion. I would anticipate an audience size
of 30-50 so if you have handouts I believe that estimate should be
good.
Overhead projectors will be available, but most talks are given
via laptops connected to projectors. I'm not sure yet if there
will be a request that talks using projectors be submitted ahead
of time so they can be consolidated on a single laptop and laptop
swapping will not be permitted. In that case it is usually expected
that the talk be prepared in Powerpoint and submitted ahead of time
to AGU or brought to the meeting on zip disk and put on the
appropriate machine in advance of the session. I'm not yet sure
of the process, maybe someone else is.
As indicated in the description below, we are especially interested
in lessons learned from experiences with teaching the teachers. The
content of what was taught is useful, but we have presenters from a wide
variety of disciplines and the common theme is how things were taught
rather than what was presented. We hope we can all benefit from each
other's experiences.
Thanks for your interest in our session. We hope to see you there!
Jim
ED02. Teaching the Teachers: What Have We (They) Learned?
Sponsor: Education and Human Resources
Co Sponsors: GC OS PA .
Conveners: Jim Thieman
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 633
Goddard Space Flight Center Code 633.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
301-286-9790
301-286-1771
thieman@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephanie Stockman
Science Systems and Applications, Inc
10210 Greenbelt Road, Suite 500
Lanham, MD 20706 USA
301-614-6457
stockman@core2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Frank Ireton
Science Systems and Applications, Inc
10210 Greenbelt Road, Suite 500
Lanham, MD 20706 USA
301-867-2034
frank_ireton@sesda.com
Index terms: 6605 .
Description: Each summer, and on special occasions throughout
the year, myriad workshops for teachers of Earth and Space Science
and science in general are held to enhance their ability to impart
this knowledge to the students. Some of these programs have a long-
standing history and a very competitive recruitment process. Some
are specifically intended for master educators who will train other
educators. Others are informal yet effective. Often they are associated
with professional meetings occurring in a particular locale such as the
AGU Meetings. Scientist involvement is usually central. What has been
learned from this long-standing history of workshops? We wish to
emphasize the lessons learned from the methods used in doing the
workshops rather than the specific educational content. How can
these workshops effectively give the educators the confidence that
they know the subject area and can transfer that knowledge? What was
the teaching methodology? How were standards incorporated and
emphasized? How were scientists involved? How can the program be
structured to produce the maximum dissemination in the community?
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