The NASA Center for Astronomy Education would like to invite all Oklahoma high school and college-level instructors who teach astronomy and space science to attend our CAE Texas Regional Teaching Exchange on Saturday, February 12, 2011, at Collin College in Plano, TX. Come meet other Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana high school and college teachers teaching astronomy, and meet some regional astronomers, graduate students, and postdocs also teaching general education astronomy. Lots of free resources will be discussed and given away, and as a bonus, you’ll get to take home some NASA stickers to your class, as well!
Here is the info:
CAE Texas Regional Teaching Exchange
Saturday, February 12, 2011
8:00-5:00
Collin College, Spring Creek Campus
Conference Center
2800 E. Spring Creek Campus
Plano, TX 75074
Coordinated by W. Lee Powell Jr. (Texas Lutheran University) and hosted by Greg Sherman and Collin College, Spring Creek Campus
CAE Regional Teaching Exchanges are designed to foster a sense of community amongst geographically linked current and future astronomy space science instructors at the college and high school level. We at CAE don’t want you to feel isolated, and we don’t want you to have to wait to attend (or re-attend) a CAE Tier I or Tier II workshop to continue your professional development. We have regional experts from the broader CAE community ready, willing, and able to provide the opportunity for you to meet your neighbors, expand your instructional repertoire, and share your own expertise.
So grab your colleagues—instructors, graduate students, and postdocs, alike—and join the Exchange!
This 2nd CAE Texas Regional Teaching Exchange will kick off with a three-hour workshop on implementing Think-Pair-Share and Lecture-Tutorials (presented by CAE Texas Exchange Coordinator Lee Powell). After lunch, there will be a contributed talk session on “A Snapshot of My Class: What I Do and Why.” Talks will be fifteen minutes, and all CAE Texas Teaching Exchange participants are welcome to present. Space will be limited due to time, so let Lee know soon if you’d like to contribute! The Exchange will wrap up with a panel discussion of “My Favorite Tool in My Toolbox: How It Got that Way” (panel members include Renee James and Scott Miller, Sam Houston State Univ.).
If you have any questions regarding this workshop, please contact Lee Powell LPowell@TLU.edu or us at cae@as.arizona.edu
Follow this link to view the workshop webpage:
http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/workshopdetails/index.cfm?workshopID
Follow this link to register:
http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/workshopdetails/index.cfm?fuseaction=workshopRegister&location†&type=workshops