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1 April 2025
Two Online Workshops for Educators in April
Tom Rice American Astronomical Society (AAS)
The American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society are co-hosting two online workshops for educators in the astronomy and physics communities this month: Intro to Equity-Minded Mentoring (22 April) and How to Design a Curriculum for the Modern World (29 April). Please consider joining either or both!
22 April, 1:00–3:00 pm ET: "Intro to Equity-Minded Mentoring," facilitated by Equity in Graduate Education.
Research has shown that faculty interactions with students in the classroom, laboratory, and advising meetings influence students’ professional socialization, academic performance, and persistence in higher education. In this two-hour virtual workshop, faculty will reflect on their current advising and mentoring practice, learn how to develop equity-minded mentoring relationships and establish shared expectations between mentors and mentees. The workshop will be led by Equity in Graduate Education Consortium facilitators Dr. Denzil Streete and Dr. John Vasquez.
29 April, 3:00–5:00 pm ET: "How to Design a Curriculum for the Modern World," facilitated by the Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Initiative.
Is your program's curriculum responsive to the needs of a variety of students? Does it align with your department’s mission and vision? Are you looking for tools to help your department design a curriculum that prepares students for the wide range of career options available to astronomers and physicists? In this two-hour, interactive virtual session, individuals associated with the EP3 Initiative will share principles and practices to help participants structure the conversations needed to reflect on and improve their department’s curriculum. Participants will create a template for designing, implementing, and sustaining curricular transformations in your department. Presenters: Christine O'Donnell, American Physical Society; Laurie McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Jackson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; David Craig, Oregon State University.
These workshops are supported by a Venture Grant from the American Institute of Physics and are part of a two-year series of online workshops for educators in 2024–2025. Stay tuned for additional workshops offered later in 2025!