1. Welcome to the Geoscience Education Research Grand Challenges and Strategies Workshop
Please pick-up your name badge and sit at any table.
Introduce yourself to others at your table.
The first session is a whole group session, therefore you do not need to sit in working groups at this time.

2. Geoscience Education Research Grand Challenges and Strategies Workshop
This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation project
A Framework for Transformative Geoscience Education Research
The project goal is to engage the GER community in setting ambitious goals for geoscience education research that will
be achievable within ten years and will have significant impact on undergraduate geoscience teaching and learning.

3. √ Three Project Objectives:
To identify themes that span multiple GER areas to define the spectrum in which GER operates and has the potential to impact undergraduate teaching and learning. √

4. Themes target GER on undergraduate teaching and learning.
Themes informed by:
DBER Report (Singer et al., 2012)
Focus group discussions at the 2015 GER workshop
Results from the 2016 and 2017 GER Surveys
Wingspread Report (Manduca et al., 2003)
Earth in Mind II Synthesis report (Kastens and Manduca, 2012)
Lewis and Baker (2010, JRST)
Abbreviation
Thematic Working Groups 1
SolidEarth
Students' conceptual understanding of geology/solid Earth science content 2
AtmOcn
Students' conceptual understanding of Env/ocean/atmosphere/climate content 3
K12
Elementary, middle, and secondary Earth science teacher education (working with teachers and future teachers in all settings) 4
Soc
Teaching about Earth in the context of societal problems 5
Access/Success
Access and success of under-represented groups in the geosciences 6
CogA
A - Cognitive domain and problem solving in geoscience courses (e.g., quantitative reasoning, temporal reasoning, spatial reasoning, use of models) 7
CogB
B - Cognitive domain and problem solving in geoscience courses (e.g., quantitative reasoning, temporal reasoning, spatial reasoning, use of models) 8
InstrStrat
Instructional strategies to improve geoscience learning in different settings and with different technologies (e.g., place-based instruction, teaching large lectures, online instruction) 9
Aff/Meta
Geoscience students' self-regulated learning/metacognition and affective domain 10
PD/Change
Institutional change and faculty professional development, TA training

5. primary focus of this workshop
Three Project Objectives:
To identify themes that span multiple GER areas to define the spectrum in which GER operates and has the potential to impact undergraduate teaching and learning.
To articulate and prioritize grand challenges for each theme that are of high interest to the geoscience education researcher and practitioner community.
To recommend strategies to address the prioritized grand challenges. These will be strategies that the community views as providing the strongest opportunities for rapid achievement of transformative GER. √
primary focus of this workshop

6. What do we mean by “Grand Challenges”
What do we mean by “Grand Challenges”? These are to be articulated as overarching research questions.
Example from the Geosciences:
Report from the Workshop on Building U.S. Strategies for the Scientific Ocean Drilling
Can access the report from our workshop agenda page.
See especially p. 3 for example Grand Challenges and p for example Strategies.

7. What do we mean by “Grand Challenges”
What do we mean by “Grand Challenges”? Example from Scientific Ocean Drilling
Themes
Prioritized Grand Challenges for Each Theme

8. How are “Strategies” ultimately (post-workshop) to be articulated
How are “Strategies” ultimately (post-workshop) to be articulated? Example from Scientific Ocean Drilling
Brief overview of importance of theme
Restatement and prioritization of challenges
Recommended strategies based on what is currently known, what type of data is needed, how to get that data, given existing opportunities, and resources needs.
See next slide too

9. How are “Strategies” ultimately (post-workshop) to be articulated
How are “Strategies” ultimately (post-workshop) to be articulated? Example from Scientific Ocean Drilling
Continuation of recommended strategies based on what is currently known, what type of data is needed, how to get that data given existing opportunities, and resources needs.

10. What are the working group deliverables for the workshop?
For each thematic working group:
Prioritized Challenges
List of 3-5(?) grand challenges. These are what you see as the most important (highest priority) overarching research questions for your theme. Final list will be reported out in a single powerpoint slide.
Justification/rationale for these recorded in an organized way in your workspace.
Recommended Strategies
For each challenge, identify the most important strategy for addressing that challenge. This will be reported out in a single powerpoint slide.
Description of additional strategies, rationale for the strategies and comments on resource needs recorded in an organized way in your workspace.

11. How will the workshop be organized to facilitate action towards project goals?
Workshop Overview
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Working Group Time
Grand Challenges Part 1: Discuss
Grand Challenges Part 2: Add & Refine
Grand Challenges Part 3: Finalize & Present.
Strategies Part 1: Discuss
Strategies Parts 2 and 3: Finalize & Present
Record in Online Workspace
Share and Get Feedback
Whole Group Sessions
Lessons Learned from the Wingspread Workshop/Report
Role of Models and Theories in Research Design
Thinking Strategically about Assessment
Special Session
4:30-5:45 pm
Geoscience Education Research and Practice Forum

12. This Workshop and Research & Practice Forum
What happens after the workshop?
Next steps in identifying and prioritizing GER grand challenges
and recommending strategies to address the challenges
Revise based on feedback; Online community survey for additional feedback
GER Grand Challenges
Town Hall on working group recommendations for community review and feedback
Revise based on feedback and on recommendations from theme issue, Draft white paper; Online open comment period
This Workshop and Research & Practice Forum
Project and working group leaders refine the workshop deliverables
Revise and finalize white paper
Disseminate to all geoscience departments, in the
GER Toolbox, and an executive summary as commentary in JGE and elsewhere
GER Grand Challenges survey
GER Grand Challenges webinar
April
2017
June
2017
July
2017
August-September
2017
October
2017
November
2017
December
2017
January
2018
GER theme issue

13. Geoscience Education Research Grand Challenges and Strategies Workshop
Project Leaders Kristen St. John, Kim Kastens, Heather Macdonald, John McDaris, and Karen McNeal Working Group Leaders Cinzia Cervato, Kim Kastens, Heather Macdonald, Karen McNeal, Heather Petcovic, Eric Pyle, Eric Riggs, Katherine Ryker, Steve Semken, and Rachel Teasdale Session Leaders Julie Libarkin, Cathy Manduca, and Karen McNeal