This work is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM program within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (DUE-1245025).

INTRO TO GETSI-INTEGRATE CURRICULUM

DEVELOPMENT MODEL

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CALL GOALS

• Overview relationship between GETSI and InTeGrate

• Overview GETSI guiding principles

• Introduction to GETSI development website

• Introduction to February meeting goals

GETSI – TEACHING MATERIALS W/ GEODESY DATA

A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce

prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues

An NSF STEP CenterDUE-1125331

InTeGrate supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues both within geoscience courses and across

the undergraduate curriculum.

Collaborative project w/ SERC as the lead institution

• Geoscience must come together with other disciplines as our nation and the world struggle with significant environmental and resource challenges.

• Meeting these challenges will require a savvy public, a new kind of workforce, and a broader understanding of geoscience by all who engage these issues

USGS

Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future

Implicit in this model is that InTeGrate supports transformation of teaching in

higher education to support engaged learning.

Example modules under development (all Intro)

Global climate system - link together many of the topics on

the basis of the most recent modeling for future trends

Climate patterns - short-term time scales (seasonal, decadal), implications for severe weather

events, ocean/atmosphere

Hydrologic cycles –supply and demand,

contamination, landscape change

Infectious diseases - environmental

factors may affect distribution, transmission,

severity of diseases

Biological diversity -biomes, geological past, implications for future

Biogeochemical cycles -

movement of key elements

(e.g., C, N)

Land use - ecosystem changes (e.g., deforestation)

and implications for biological diversity and biogeochemical cycles

Energy resource availability -balance between energy security

and development of less environment-friendly sources in

North America

Hazard awareness -preparation for future

natural disasters, predictions, cost/benefits

Mineral resource development -

population, wealth distribution, technology,

limited supplies, recycling, waste

management

Grand Challenges - InTeGrate

Jones Kershaw, P., 2005, Creating a disaster resilient America: Grand challenges in science and technology. Summary of a workshop. National Research Council, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11274.

National Research Council, 2001, Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 106 p.

Zoback, M, 2001, Grand challenges in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Science, stewardship, and service for the Twenty-First Century. GSA Today, December, p.41-47.

The Geoscience Literacy Documents

GRAND CHALLENGES GEODESY/GETSI--subset of these of particular societalimportance

GUIDED BY EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATE LITERACY DOCS

Constructive Alignment

Literacy Big Ideas

Module Goals

Learning Objectives

Assessments

GETSI-SERC RELATIONSHIP

• GETSI will largely use the InTeGrate model for development (as practical)

• GETSI will largely use InTeGrate assessment process for module quality and student learning evidence

• GETSI site is hosted by SERC

• Ellen Iverson (SERC) is our project evaluator and lead assessment consultant

• Tonya Kjerland is our web guru

• Developed and tested by 2-person teams

• 1-1.5 year commitment to development, testing, revision and publication

• Supported by assessment consultant to meet design rubric, develop embedded assessments for use in testing

• $7,500 stipend for co-authors; equivalent buy-out salary for PIs

Call for proposals

GETSI MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

DESIGN GOALS*

• Address one or more geodesy-related grand challenges facing society

• Make use of authentic and credible geodesy data to learn central concepts in the context of geoscience methods of inquiry

• Improve student understanding of the nature and methods of geoscience and developing geoscientific habits of mind

• Develop student ability to address interdisciplinary problems and apply geoscience learning to social issues

• Develop systems thinking

* Referred to as Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design

PEDAGOGIC GOALS

• Engaged, student centered, research based pedagogy supports higher order learning

• Alignment of goals, materials and assessments supports and documents learning

• Develops scientific thinking and an understanding of the process of science

• Materials can be used successfully in multiple settings

IMPLEMENTATION GOALS

• Materials are used widely by faculty across the country

• Learning by students can be documented to show increased higher level understanding of sustainability and geoscience

• Materials are used in courses outside geoscience departments

LINKING GOALS AND PROCESS: THE MATERIALS DESIGN RUBRIC

1. Guiding Principles

2. Learning Goals and Outcomes

3. Assessment and Measurement

4. Resources and Materials

5. Instructional Strategies

6. Alignment

7. GETSI-specific Instructional Strategies

LINKING GOALS AND PROCESS:PART 2: TESTING AND PUBLISHING

• Collection of assessment data

• Revision of materials

• Publication of teaching materials and supporting information for faculty

• Case studies document implementation at your institutions

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (+1 YEAR)

1. Materials in Development

2. Pass Assessment Rubric

3. Classroom Pilot & Data Collection

4. Review and Revision

5. Publishing

SPENT TIME LOOKING AT SOME WEBSITES

• Webinar switched to looking at components of the

– GETSI website http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi

– InTeGrate “For Team Members” pageshttp://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/index.html