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2021 Workshop for New Physics and Astronomy Faculty

June 28-July 1, 2021

Welcome to the 2021 Workshop for "New" Physics and Astronomy Faculty! We hope you have a fantastic experience and leave the workshop better prepared for your future in College and University education. Be sure to check out the pre-workshop homework, and feel free to look through the schedule of events for each day and familiarize yourself with Workshop Leadership and Sponsors.

Session recordings and documents are available here.

Please DO NOT share recordings with persons who are not Workshop Participants.All recordings and links to Workshop Sessions and Session Documents are confidential and for Workshop Participants only.

Post Workshop Survey is here.

(to be completed by July 23)

Technical Information

You will need Chrome or Firefox (Safari does not work) to access the main workshop platform, Gather.town.

UPDATES: Refreshing your screen or switching your browser to/from Chrome or Firefox fixes most Gather.town issues. Having fewer windows/apps running also helps. Gather tends to take up a decent amount of computing power. This is more apparent if you have an older computer (https://support.gather.town/help/system-specifications).

Zoom meetings will be used for some sessions. You must have Zoom v5.6.4 or higher to fully participate in the workshop.

Zoom Download Center - to download the Zoom app to your electronic device follow this link.

It is HIGHLY recommended you access each session with a tablet-sized screen or larger.

Zoom sessions will be recorded. Please turn off your webcam if you do not wish to be recorded.

Sessions in the Gather.town Patio and Rotunda will not be recorded.

Participant Pre-workshop Homework

Before the workshop, please do the following activities.

Read the Norms for Interactions document for guidelines for inclusive discussions and read the instructions for the main workshop platform, Gather.town.

Complete the Just in Time Teaching warm-up Google Form by 11:59p ET on Sunday, June 27, in preparation for the Optimizing Students' Preparation for Class: Just in Time Teaching session A5.1 on Monday, June 28.

Download and read the two homework items before attending the Think-Pair-Share session A5.2 on Monday, June 28.

Complete the Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs) assignment before attending the ILDs: A Research-Validated Strategy for Active Learning in Lecture session B3.1 on Tuesday, June 29:

(1) Please print out pages 11-13 and have them available with a pen or pencil during the session, but do not do anything else with them until the session.

(2) Please consider the following questions as you read “Using Interactive Lecture Demonstrations to Create an Active Learning Environment.” Q1. What changes in teaching strategies are needed to make a lecture classroom a more active learning environment? Q2. What features of ILDs accomplish this?

Bring 10 small objects that are mostly similar but have some differences, e.g. coins or colored paper clips to the Designing Activities for More Advanced Students: Lessons from the Paradigms Program C2 session, if possible, on Wednesday, June 30.

Optional: Review the Sample Question slides for the Using Think-Pair-Share (TPS) to Promote Quantitative Problem Solving session C4.2 on Wednesday, June 30.

Download and print the session document for session C5 (Assessing Students’ Learning Rigorously and Fairly) and the session document for session C7 (Getting Your Career off to a Good Start) prior to the session in order to take notes on the document. Newly added resource: Illustrative Study Guide.

Watch this 14-minute video and review these slides before attending the Navigating the Ecosystem to Solve Problems Beyond Your Classroom session D2 on Thursday, July 1.