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Due to the popularity of this program,
a waiting list is being kept for geographers interested in participating. There
may be a chance of enrollment in the 2004 workshops but 2005 and
2006 are more likely.
Please contact Ken Foote (k.foote@colorado.edu)
or Anita Howard (anita.howard@colorado.edu) for more information or to be put on
the waiting list..
Two professional development workshops will be held in June 2004 for
early career faculty in geography instructors, lecturers, assistant professors,
and other untenured faculty. The workshops, funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF DUE-0089434), are part of the Geography Faculty Development
Alliance, a five-year project to strengthen support and training for new
faculty in geography in two- and four-year institutions of higher education
across the United States.
The aim is to provide early career faculty--as well as advanced doctoral
students--with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to excel in
the lecture hall, seminar room, and laboratory. Stress will be placed on
methods of active pedagogy, inquiry based learning, and teaching with technology,
but participants will also address topics often overlooked in today's graduate
curriculum--course planning, student assessment, discussion leadership, lecturing
skills, field study, and evaluation methodologies. For participants, the
key objectives of the project are to:
- Learn about and evaluate a range of approaches, methods and resources
for teaching, learning and assessment in geography and share good practice.
- Appreciate how general training in teaching, learning and assessment
in higher education needs to be interpreted, adapted and supplemented for
effective use in geography.
- Share experiences of, and concerns about, teaching, research and service
with other new teaching staff and with experienced practitioners in these
subjects and thereby foster a culture of support and success for young faculty.
- Develop strategies for balancing the demands of and setting priorities
among research, teaching, and service activities.
- Create plans to improve their teaching and for their continuing professional
development.
- Understand the fundamental interconnections between their teaching
and research and that the scholarship of teaching encompasses both.
The workshops will be led by some of geography's most accomplished scientists,
scholars and teachers, including members of the project's advisory board:
Sarah Bednarz, Osa Brand, Stanley Brunn, Reginald Golledge, Susan Hanson,
Susan Hardwick, Gail Hobbs, Iain Hay, Mick Healey, Janice Monk, Kavita Pandit,
James Peterson, and Ruth Shirey. And, in addition to the workshops, follow-up
seminars, panel discussions, and paper sessions will be scheduled at the
annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and the National
Council for Geographic Education for the next five years to broaden the impact
of the project.
In 2004, two one-week workshops will be held at the University of Colorado
at Boulder from: 1) 5-12 June and 2) 19-26 June. Workshops are limited to
26 participants. The NSF grant includes funds to cover participant travel
to Boulder (up to $425) and room and board on the CU campus. Participants
will be responsible for purchasing approximating $150 in book and study materials.
You are eligible to participate if you are an untenured lecturer, instructor,
or assistant professor at any two or four-year institution of higher education
in the United States. ABD doctoral students who have been the primary
instructor for at least one course are also invited to participate. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information or to enroll, please contact Kenneth E. Foote,
Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Guggenheim Hall 108, Campus
Box 260 UCB, Boulder, Colorado, USA 80309-0260, Phone: (303) 492-8310, Fax:
(303) 492-7501, Email: k.foote@colorado.edu.
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