CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Education and Human Resources Ramon Lopez and the CISM Education Team

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Scope of Activities  Teacher workshops  K-12 Instructional materials development  Presentations at NSTA, AAPT, SACNAS  Undergraduate research  Research in Science Education  Undergraduate instructional materials (Astro 101, Physics 102)  Graduate summer school  Web presence  Planetarium shows

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 A few details about one activity: The Summer School

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Why a Summer School? Need for a national resource for space weather education Serve a wide variety of students Provide model teaching environment for potential future teachers Expose CISM “Faculty” to innovations in education

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Structure of School Active Lecture Afternoon Labs with space weather models Continuous assessment Final integrative activity as end of course assessment Explicit reflection on teaching

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Active Lecture Talk for minutes Pose conceptual question to test for understanding and solidify concepts

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Active lecture got really active In one case we went outside to model the spiral structure of the IMF

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Afternoon labs Built around space weather models Keyed to morning lectures Collaborative groups of 2/4

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Daily evaluations Student evaluated sessions on whether is was (a) engaging and (b) useful Labs often, but not always, scored well Top score went to final activity, 2nd went to OpenDX lab Student groups also posed questions at end of each set of lectures - These were answered in lab

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Final activity Develop a story line for an event (March 31, 2001) including use of prediction models Jigsaw cooperative structure used Home groups all developed concept maps

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Final activity Share results in a wisdom walk Maps serve as integrative active and end of course assessment

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Response of students Overall response to summer school was excellent (4.8/4.5 on 0 to 5 scale) Students loved the interactive approach

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Reponse of faculty Some were unsure at first how to apply active learning techniques, but were willing to learn. Others were naturals. H. Spence is now using these techniques in his classes. Constant evaluation kept presenters on their toes, and reinforced active learning approach.

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Revisions to Plan - More internal Education activities  Every year we will bring all CISM graduate students together  We will plan a generic, rotating program. Topics will include education one year, management issues and grants the next, etc.  A program “Under the hood with the codes” will be developed over the Access Grid  There will be an annual Undergraduate REU meeting over the Access Grid. Topics will include UG research projects, research efforts in CISM, and applying to graduate school  Ethics Training to be done over Access Grid. Everyone new must participate.

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Meetings between sites  November meeting at BU Discussed coordination of Education Research program, partnership w/BPS  December meeting at SSL In coordination with Solar CISM/MURI science meeting, discussed CISM projects and coordination with Solar group education  January meeting at AAMU Discussed coordination of Research program, participation in Summer School, AG node setup

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Activities  Presentations at AAPT Winter meeting - Plenary by Lopez, papers by Wiltberger and Reiff  Stanford solar group investigating proof of concept for “Space Weather Detector”. Dissemination to be modeled on INSPIRE  Ongoing undergraduate research  Astro 101 Sun-Earth Day materials under development; to be disseminated week of March 10  Summer School, 2002; Invited paper on 2001 school at AGU 2002 spring meeting  Planetarium show (Beta version) exploring viewer misconceptions about space has been developed  Developing template for professional development  Mentoring AAMU research program

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Current Planned Activities  Teacher workshop at SACNAS in Albuquerque; presentation of CISM and Space Weather  Summer teacher interns at BU, UTEP, Stanford  Summer teacher workshops  Workshops at NSTA meetings  Presentation AAPT Summer meeting  Undergraduate research  Research in Science Education  Graduate summer school 2003  Planetarium shows  Web activities

CISM Advisory Council Meeting 4 March 2003 Issues/Challenges  Regular communications not yet set up - waiting for AG node  New staff - Esther Zirbel hired, need UTEP coordinator, Postdoc  Getting new CISM results, especially visualizations