| 2008 Workshop Announcement
Workshop Information
Participants
Why Should You Participate?
Comments from Past Participants
The
Geography Faculty Development Alliance Listserve
Some
Current Project Results
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The
Geography Faculty Development Alliance is a long-term, broad-based
project to improve the learning and teaching of geography in higher
education. The aim is to provide early career faculty and advanced
doctoral students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed
to excel in the lecture hall, seminar room, and laboratory. Key
objectives of the
project are to foster a culture of support and success for
early career faculty, to help them understand the fundamental
interconnections between their teaching and research, and to advance
the scholarship of teaching and learning across the entire discipline.
This project involves several components: summer workshops, follow-up
seminars, panel discussions, and paper sessions
at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers
and the National Council for Geographic Education. There is also a
longitudinal evaluation and research component to consider the value of
the training to early career faculty during the tenure review process.
A final component involves publishing the workshop materials as a
stand-alone course
for use in graduate geography programs.
Registration has begun for the 2008 GFDA workshop, 15-21 June at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Registration is available through the website of the Association of
American Geographers at: http://aag.org/GFDA/earlycareer.htm
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