Increasing the Availability of Professional Development Opportunities through the Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Regional Teaching Exchanges

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #247.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), as part of JPL's NASA Exoplanet Public Engagement Program (ExEP), has been conducting Teaching Excellence Workshops all across the country since 2004. Nearly two thousand current and future astronomy instructors have participated in these workshops. To increase the availability of professional development opportunities for past workshop participants, as well as to foster a sense of community amongst geographically linked current and future Astro 101 instructors, we created CAE Regional Teaching Exchanges. Our Exchanges are coordinated by CATS Fellows who are regional experts from the broader CAE community. Our first Regional Exchange was held in 2005, and our newest Exchange region has just been created.
We report on the increased availability of professional development through our CAE Regional Teaching Exchanges, the many flavors our Exchanges take on, as well as lessons learned.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. In addition, we would like to thank Michael Greene and JPL's NASA Exoplanet Public Engagement Program (ExEP) for their continued support.

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