HR: 1330h
AN: ED12B-0137    [PDF]
TI: The Kentucky Earth System Science Education Project
AU: * Whitworth, J M
EM: J.whitworth@moreheadstate.edu
AF: Morehead State University, Department of Physical Sciences, Morehead, KY 40351-1689 United States
AU: Siewers, F D
EM: siewers@wku.edu
AF: Western Kentucky University, Department of Geography and Geology, Bowling Green, KY 42101 United States
AB: The Kentucky Earth Systems Education Project is a partnership between Western Kentucky University and Morehead State University to deliver the Earth Systems Science Alliance (ESSEA) courses via the Kentucky Virtual University to classroom teachers in Kentucky and beyond. One goal of the project has been to integrate the courses into the teacher preparation programs at both institutions, as well as providing professional development to practicing K-12 teachers. This presentation will highlight how team teaching courses with professors from different institutions at opposite ends of the state, as well as teaching in a different way, has brought new challenges and its own rewards. The instructors will present their own experiences and lessons learned that resulted in more effective ways of communicating and engaging students in the study of Earth Systems. They will also discuss how teaching strategies used in the course has changed their own teaching and student reactions to their online experience learning earth systems science.
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting