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EOS Science Education Initiative News
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| Sept03: | It's been a busy summer! EOS-SEI Times, Vol 3, No. 3. is up. |
| Apr30: | CWSEI end of year event, with close to 20 contributions (posters & presentations) from faculty and STLFs. The CWSEI end-of-year page will have copies of all materials from all contributors by roughly mid-May. |
| Apr23: | Visit from Leslie Ried, Tamaratt Teaching Professor in Geoscience at U.Calgary. Presentation #1: Identifying Students’ Misconceptions in an Introductory Geoscience Course – An Action Research Model Presentation #2: What Do the Best Science Instructors Do…? |
| Apr16: | B.Sc. Honors Thesis completed by Alison Jolley. Great job Allison! See the project page for pointers to the thesis (at UBC Library) and the poster (online locally). |
| Mar30: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 3, No. 2. |
| Mar23: | Multiple instructors: report to the Department from survying 746 students, 17 instructors in 9 courses using 3 different teaching models. |
| Mar23: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 3, No. 1. |
| Nov16: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 8. |
| Oct23: | Page listing references about Team Teaching, and the papers them selves. |
| Oct21: | Updates to this website including curriculum (including the addition of recommendations presented to the Department, plus results of a questionnaire from members of Vancouver's professional geophysics community), TAs and people pages, plus some other minor edits. |
| Sept29: | First set of EOS Student Exit Survey results are presented (PDF). |
| Sept28: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 7. |
| Sept 20: | Sept. is always busy! The resources page has several new 1 or 2 page resources. |
| Aug 14: | A "Getting Started" document outlining what to expect as you embark on a "course optimization" here at EOS. |
| July 20: | Several presentations and workshops were given at the 34th Internantional Conference on Improving University Teaching (IUT), at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC. See the EOS-SEI research page and faculty resources for posters and workshop followup materials. |
| July 09: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 6. |
| July 08: | New research page added to the website, and some updating of website information and appearance. |
| June 11: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 5. |
| June 8: | CWSEI web information updated. See http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/departments/earth-ocean.htm. |
| May 15: | EOS-SEI Times,Vol 2, No. 4. |
| April 29: | CWSEI End of Year Event. See a summary and links to 13 posters & presentations from EOS at the CWSEI website. |
| April 21: | EOS-SEI "mini retreat" agenda. |
| April 16: | Summary of EOS-SEI progress, presented at the annual EOS Department retreat (PDF of a PPT). |
| Mar 31 | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 3. (March 2009) |
| Mar 19 & 20: | Three talks / discussions with Cathy Manduca: Note that the SERC site is an important reference for all aspects of geoscience education. - What should we teach? Lessons from geoscience research (PDF); - Helping Faculty be Better Teachers: Creating Reinforced Messages(PDF); - Assessing Geoscience Programs (PDF). |
| Mar 12: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 2. (March 2009) - Assessments That Support Student Learning. |
| Mar 05: | UBC Reports | Vol. 55 | No. 3 | Mar. 5, 2009 | The Joy of Teaching: EOS Profs Find New Ways to Enrich the Classroom Experience By Brian Lin. |
| Jan 27: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 2, No. 1. (Jan. 2009) Making the most of Midterm Course Feedback Surveys (with some references), F. Jones. |
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| Nov 24: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 1, No. 5. (Dec. 2008) You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression; Making the Most Out of the First Day of Class - CWSEI, and Erin Lane. |
| Nov 24: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 1, No. 4. (Nov. 2008) - A classroom observation protocol; Quantifying student engagement in a large lecture class - Erin Lane. |
| Nov 19-21: | Improving Metacognitive Skills of 2nd year Environmental Science Students: What to Measure?, F. Jones, S. Harris, D. Steyn. Poster for the workshop "The role of metacognition in teaching geoscience". For publically available outcomes of this workshop see link here. |
| Oct 26: | Learning Goals workshop: UBC Faculty of Science Skylight Supper Series. See the resources page. |
| Oct 5-9: | Measuring Student Gains in an Introductory Student Lab, B. Gilley, S. Harris, poster presented at the GSA Joint Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas. |
| Oct 02: | The UBC Learning Conference; Bringing Learning Goals to Fruition. Live "Twitter" feed summarizing progress through the 3 hr workshop presented by CWSEI and EOS. Also, handouts and materials are available via the resources page. |
| Sept 30: | EOS-SEI Times, Vol 1, No. 3. (Sept. 2008) Writing Learning Goals for Courses: one faculty member's view" - M.L. Bevier. |
| Sept 15: | For curriculum reform: summary of precedent, and list of recommendations was delivered to the EOS Teaching Initiatives Committee (*.DOC). |
| Aug 27: | Hope everyone had a good summer. Edition 1.2 of our regular newsletter is out: Student Attitude Survey EOSSEI – E.Lane, B.Kennedy, TP Frappe. |
| July 31: | Introduction of The EOSSEI Times, a regular newsletter about the project's work on Raising the Standards in Undergraduate Education. |
| July 25: | Additional feedback and interview results pages have been added to the feedback page, as part of curriculum work. |
| July 25: | Learning goals workshop for the Goldschmidt conference. Handouts are available via our resources page. |
| July 09: | Updated long term project plan posted. Also a list of 47 science education journals, and some other "artifacts" of work under way via the feedback page. |
| June 30: | Posted additional feedback information - from eosc112, eosc310, and ECAC usage (students and TAs). |
| June 22: | Posted updated resources used in the Learning Goals workshop we ran on June 20th. See our resources page. |
| June 16: | Welcome Erin Lane, the newest STLF to start working in EOS. Please see the weekly news items for an introduction to Erin. |
| June 10: | Posted a summary and audio of today's discussion about science article reading skills. See our resources page. |
| June 9: | Introduction of weekly news items. |
| June 3: | This website was updated June 3rd. Several new pages exist, including pointers to feedback from students. |
| May: | First annual CWSEI End-of-Year-Event. See "Calendar" on the CWSEI website for copies of presentations. |
| April: | Sara Harris receives the 2007/2008 Faculty of Science Achievement Award: Congratulations to Sara Harris for receiving the 2007/2008 Faculty of Science Achievement Award for her exceptional contribution to the Faculty of Science. |
| March: | There have been several short guidelines produced by the collected wisdom of Carl Wieman, Sarah Gilbert and all STLFs at UBC and all STFs at Colorado University. These represent a significantly efficient representation of wisdom about science teaching and learning. Check them out at our resources page, or via the CWSEI website. |
| Jan 29: | The eagerly awaited guidelines document on use of "clickers" is finally ready. It is called "An instructor's guide to the effective use of personal response systems ("clickers") in teaching", prepared by staff of the CU Science Education Initiative and the UBC Carl Wieman SEI. Download this from our resources page. |
| Jan 25: | Compressed version of the Carl Wieman Learning Goals workshop was attended by approximately 10 EOS faculty. Introduced by Carl Wieman, then some lecture and much time on brainstorming goals at the course level and topic or lecture level. See our resources page for materials used. |
| Jan 1: | Welcome to Ben Kennedy, our new STLF (science teaching and learning fellow), who starts Januar 2008. Ben has been finishing off a Post Doc here at EOS, and was teaching several sections of courses here last term (fall 2007). |
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| Nov. 1: | EOS-SEI in the news: UBC Reports: Winds of Classroom Change. "Prof. Roland Stull Finds a Sense of Excitement in His Revamped Large Class on Natural Disasters" By Brian Lin. |
| October: | Website begun in its current form. |
The general project goal: To increase the effectiveness of post-secondary science education for all undergraduate students taking courses offered by our Department. Proven pedagogic strategies will be incorporated into our courses, faculty will increase their understanding about learning and their expertise at teaching, and all changes & innovations will become a permanent part of the department's commitment to excellence in teaching. Work at EOS is being carried out under the guidance of the CWSEI.
