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Workshop Info at AAG
Workshop Information
Participants
Why Should You
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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,
including the books Aspiring Academics (2009) and
Teaching
College Geography (2009).
Registration has begun for the 2012 GFDA
workshop, 10-16 June at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Publicity
Flyer
Available Here (pdf format).
Registration is available through the website of
the Association of
American Geographers at: http://www.aag.org/cs/education/professional_and_organizational_development/early_career_gfda_workshop
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