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THAT WAS THEN...THIS IS NOW: WHERE HAVE WE COME FROM AND WHERE ARE WE GOING IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION?


SINGER, Jill, Earth Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo State, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, RYAN, Jeffrey G., Department of Geology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SCA 528, Tampa, FL 33620-5201, LEA, Peter D., Department of Earth & Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin College, 6800 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, MATTY, David J., College of Science, Weber State University, 2501 University Circle, Ogden, UT 84408, MOGK, David W., Dept. of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, RIDKY, Robert W., U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, MS 912, Reston, VA 20192, SVERDRUP, Keith A., Geoscience Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwuakee, WI 53201 and STOUT, Dorothy, Whittier, CA 90602, singerjk@buffalostate.edu

The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) has supported innovations in geoscience education for more than three decades. Programs such as the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement, Course and Curriculum Development, and Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement evolved into the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program (with tracks for adaptation and implementation of successful models, curriculum development, and faculty professional development) and the Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES). The TUES program also supported development of innovative curriculum, new pedagogical practices, and research on how students learn in the geosciences. This presentation will share perspectives from six of the seven former geoscience program officers in DUE (the geoscience community lost a determined champion with the untimely death of Dorothy 'Dottie' Stout in 2001) and highlight past and current trends in geoscience education, and perspectives about emerging opportunities. The integration of undergraduate research into the curriculum, the classroom use of research and exploration instrumentation (including remotely operable instruments), research on learning and use of evidence-based pedagogic practices to improve student learning, and other innovations have shaped the geoscience curriculum. We offer our vision of where geoscience education may go in the years ahead, including the growing emphasis on assessment, dissemination, and educational research and programs in DUE that can support curricular innovation and faculty professional development.

Session No. 76

T117. Developing and Sustaining Thriving Geoscience Programs and Departments: Strategies and Examples from Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges and Universities II
Sunday, 27 October 2013: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Room 406 (Colorado Convention Center)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p.204
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