Teacher Professional Development Site and Community College Course: Lessons learned from an institutional NASA ROSES E/PO supplement

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmed51a0561p&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #ED51A-0561

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

0805 Elementary And Secondary Education, 0810 Post-Secondary Education, 0825 Teaching Methods, 0830 Teacher Training, 0840 Evaluation And Assessment

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NASA has provided several opportunities to apply for funding of education and outreach programs. One such opportunity was as a supplement to successful scientific proposed efforts under the ROSES program. NASA funded our institutional E/PO program as a supplement to a combination of three scientists' grants in the fields of Earth's magnetosphere and aurora. This effort launched a Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) teacher professional development site while also starting an introductory-level community college science seminar course. The goals were to provide effective and relevant curriculum for teachers of underserved rural children and to inspire urban community college adults. The GEMS site was launched in South Dakota in 2006 for teachers of grades 1-8, the first such site in this state. Two years later, we went back to present a follow-up teacher workshop, introducing several new teachers to the resources of this new GEMS site. At the community college, we brought in scientists from the Space Sciences Lab (UC Berkeley) to discuss space weather and astronomy at an accessible level, in 2006 and 2007. This type of introductory- level science seminar course is unusual, especially in a community college. We provide a description of the design of the community college seminar and GEMS site, lessons learned, and many of our evaluation results from this program. The success of this proposed effort is in a large part due to our partnerships with the Lawrence Hall of Science, the South Dakota Discovery Center and Aquarium, and Berkeley City College (formerly known as Vista Community College), part of the Peralta Community College District. We hope other scientists and E/PO professionals can learn from our efforts and apply some of the ideas to future E/PO efforts.

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