Teaching Resource Center

IMPROVING GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION -- LINKS:

• NPR: Physics Loses the Lecture
• Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids -- Why effort is more important to praise than ability and where it gets you...
• Carol Dweck's Attitude -- It's not about how smart you are
• Rick Reis -- Tomorrow's Professor -- Mailing List and More
  • Turning Zzzz's Into A's
  • Writing good multiple-choice questions
  • Getting students to teach each other
  • Lose the Lectures
  • Multiple-Choice Questions You Wouldn’t Put on a Test: Promoting Deep Learning Using Clickers
  • Brain-Based Research Informs Instructional Design
  • Toward a Science of Learning
  • Dysfunctional Illusions of Rigor: Part 1 - Basic Illusions
    Reaching the D and F students and why we should.
    
  • Dysfunctional Illusions of Rigor: Part 2 - Advanced Illusions
    Reaching the D and F students and why we should.
    Dec. 12 2010 CCSF Faculty Group Discussion on reducing Fs even in tough classes.

• Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms -- Video animation
  This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. Sir Ken Robinson talks about the history of education and where it's taken us -- what's missing today and where we need to focus our efforts -- especially promoting creativity and collaboration.
  
  
• Science Education Resource Center (SERC): Earth and Mind BLOG
  "We have established this blog with the goal of stirring up discussion of ideas, questions, discoveries and controversies related to how people think and learn about the Earth and environment."
  • Learning to Learn from Data
  • Calling on nonvolunteering students
    
• Science Education Resource Center: (SERC)
  "SERC (an office of Carleton College) works to improve education through projects that support educators. The office has special expertise in effective pedagogies, geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries, website development and program and website evaluation."
  
  
• On the Cutting Edge for Professional Geoscience Development:
  Teaching Materials, Workshops, and Strategies
  "The NAGT On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods. We provide web resources and workshops."
  
  
• Earth Science Literacy
  "Defining a set of essential ideas that a literate American should know about the geosciences. "