Workshop for Faculty from Minority Serving Intuitions ---- Overview ---- Russ Pimmel

1. Workshop for Faculty from Minority Serving Intuitions ---- Overview ---- Russ Pimmel Workshop for Faculty from Minority Serving Intuitions Feb. 8 –10, 2006

2. Caution Most of the information presented in this workshop represents the opinions of the individual program offices and not an official NSF position.

3. Workshop Goals -- Overview Goal:Prepare you to write more competitive proposals Approach: Three short targeted workshops interspersed with proposal writing activities • Proposal strategies • Broader impacts • Project evaluation

4. Workshop Schedule -- Overview Thursday Morning (Discipline Groups) • Proposal Strategies – Targeted Workshop & Activity Thursday Afternoon (Campus Groups) • NSF Programs -- Discussion • Broader Impacts – Targeted Workshop & Activity Friday Morning (Discipline Groups) • Project Evaluation – Targeted Workshop & Activity Friday Afternoon (Campus Groups) • Planning On-Campus -- Workshop Activity

5. Framework for the Workshop

6. Framework for the Workshop • Learning situations involve prior knowledge • Some knowledge correct • Some knowledge incorrect (i. e., misconceptions) • Learning is • Connecting new knowledge to prior knowledge • Correcting misconception • Learning requires • Recalling prior knowledge – actively • Altering prior knowledge

7. Active-Cooperative Learning • Learning activities must encourage learners to: • Recall prior knowledge -- actively, explicitly • Connect new concepts to existing ones • Challenge and alter misconception • The think-share-report-learn (TSRL) process addresses these steps

8. Workshop Format • “Working” Workshop • Short presentations (mini-lectures) • Group exercise • Exercise Format • Think  Share  Report  Learn • (TSRL) • Limited Time – May feel rushed • Intend to identify issues & suggestideas • Get you started • No closure -- No “answers” – No “formulas”

9. Target Workshop Proposal Strategy Stephanie Adams Susan Burkett

10. Proposal Strategy Activity

11. Proposal Strategy Activity • Begin outlining your proposal • Write 2 to 3 goal statements and the corresponding outcomes • Write 5 to 10 topic sentences describing the background and rational • Write 5 to 10 topic sentences describing the methods • 40 minutes

12. Critiquing Proposal Outlines • Review your colleagues’ outlines • Indicate questions and concerns • Suggest improvements • 30 minutes

13. Reporting on Proposal Strategy Activity • Determine the most important lesson you learned about writing proposals • Email your individual response to sburkett@nsf.gov • TSRL • 20 minutes

14. NSF Programs Stephanie Adams Barb Anderegg

15. Target Workshop Broader Impacts Barb Anderegg Bev Watford

16. Broader Impacts Activity

17. Broader Impacts Activity • Broader Impacts • List the broader impacts of your project • Indicate the measure that you will use in evaluating the broader impacts of your project • Write a paragraph describing the broader impacts statement for your proposal’s Project Summary • Dissemination plan • Write a sentence or two to indicate how you will “contribute to the STEM education knowledge base” • Write a sentence or two to indicate how you will “help build the STEM education community” • 40 minutes

18. Critiquing Broader Impacts Material • Review your colleagues’ broader impacts and dissemination material • Indicate questions and concerns • Suggest improvements • 30 minutes

19. Reporting on Broader Impacts Activity • Determine the most important lesson you learned about broader impacts and dissemination • Email your individual response to bandereg@nsf.gov • TSRL • 20 minutes

20. Workshop Schedule – Overview For Friday Thursday Morning (Discipline Groups) • Proposal Strategies – Targeted Workshop & Activity Thursday Afternoon (Campus Groups) • Broader Impacts – Targeted Workshop & Activity • NSF Programs -- Discussion Friday Morning (Discipline Groups) • Project Evaluation – Targeted Workshop & Activity Friday Afternoon (Campus Groups) • Planning On-Campus -- Workshop Activity

21. Reminders • Caution • Opinions of the individual program offices • Not an official NSF position • ACL and TSRL process • Connecting new knowledge to prior knowledge • Correcting misconception • Recalling prior knowledge – actively • Altering prior knowledge • “Working” Workshop • Get you started -- No closure

22. Target Workshop Project Evaluation Connie Della-Piana Russ Pimmel Bev Watford

23. Project Evaluation Activity

24. Project Evaluation Activity • Evaluation plan • Write the “topic sentences” for three to five paragraphs in your evaluation plan • Evaluation Approaches • List three to five outcomes for your project and briefly describe how you will evaluate each • 40 minutes

25. Critiquing Evaluation Material • Review your colleagues’ material • Indicate questions and concerns • Suggest improvements • 30 minutes

26. Reporting on Project Evaluation Activity • Determine the most important lesson you learned about evaluation • Email your individual response to bwatford@nsf.gov • TSRL • 20 minutes

27. Preparing for Workshop at Home Institution Russ Pimmel

28. Reminders • Learning situations involve prior knowledge • Connecting new knowledge to prior knowledge • Correcting misconception • ACL encourages • Recall of prior knowledge -- actively, explicitly • Connecting new concepts to existing ones • Challenging and altering misconception • TSRL process • Recalling prior knowledge – actively • Altering prior knowledge • “Working” Workshop • Get you started -- No closure

29. Planning Your Workshop-- Exercise • Workshop should deal with • Most important misconception • Least understood aspects • Plan a workshop that fits your institution's situation • List the outcomes of your workshop • Indicate the length of your workshop • Indicate what material you will use • 30 minutes

30. Final Exercise • What is the most important lesson you are taking away with you? • Email to rpimmel@nsf.gov