NAGT's On the Cutting Edge Professional Development Program

NAGT's core professional development program includes workshops, webinars, conferences, online resource collections and other efforts that support geoscience educators. These activities provide opportunities for faculty to learn more about pedagogy, to share their classroom and professional experiences and teaching materials, and to discuss what works and what's needed in geoscience education.

This program is run in collaboration with SERC and builds on the legacy of the original NSF-funded program including many of its program elements as well as its design philosophy and workshop model.

Professional Development Events ↓

On the Cutting Edge Professional Development Opportunities & Resources

Sponsored & Topical Events

Geoscience Education Research

Participate in or explore resources from in-depth workshops and webinars devoted to Geoscience Education Research (GER).

NAGT at Meetings

NAGT supports a number of workshops throughout the year at various conferences that differ in size and scope. Request to have NAGT sponsor your session or event.

Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards

The NAGT supports workshops, webinars, and discussions to help implementation of the framework for K-12 science education, the foundation for the Next Generation Science Standards.

NAGT and SERC now jointly lead the On the Cutting Edge Program and collaborate on the management and continued development and funding of the now branded NAGT's On the Cutting Edge program. NAGT has expertise in geoscience education research, student learning, and faculty professional development and an established leadership structure with capacity to identify and lead programming in response to community needs. SERC possesses technology infrastructure and has expertise in strategies for implementation of professional development programming, development of websites through community contributions, and project management.

NAGT's Professional Development Program Committee is responsible for the management of the professional development activities and the website content, including peer review of teaching activities. The committee determines workshop offerings, appoints workshop conveners, and creates committees to manage other activities. They are responsible for the ensuring that the workshop offerings in aggregate address the needs and priorities of undergraduate geoscience education and for the quality of the individual activities. The committee was established in an MOU between NAGT and the NSF-funded On the Cutting Edge project leadership. Committee members come from NAGT leadership and the former On the Cutting Edge PI Team. The planning committee identifies or endorses the leadership of all activities undertaken by the On the Cutting Edge program.

The Teach the Earth Website Committee oversees stewardship of the Teach the Earth website and reports to the NAGT Professional Development Program Committee. Its members come from a variety of groups within NAGT that use, update, and manage the website. NAGT is responsibile for the Teach the Earth (TTE) website which is managed by SERC to provide access to the full set of resources within scope. NAGT maintains a reviewed collection of teaching activities within TTE that form the NAGT collection of exemplary teaching activities and are branded as such on the activities. NAGT also maintains a reviewed collection of sites that are exemplary resources for geoscience educators and these are also branded as such. The On the Cutting Edge collection is the part of TTE that contains content derived from the original NSF funded program as well as new content derived from the activities managed or sponsored by the current On the Cutting Edge program.

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