First day and week of class How do you really teach all students? Promoting success in online courses including 100% on-line labs Strategies to motivate your students Using career resources as a motivator + major + workforce recruitment Strategies to work with students who are underprepared Engaging your colleagues (full time faculty, adjunct faculty) Working with your admin (e.g., academic advising, student support offices, etc.) Retention in the geosciences (within the course, within the program) Applying group and social psychology applied to geoscience courses Building your students quantitative skills Proper use of text books Faculty “bull pen “ culture Using open ended research activities in lab How to transition to a more student driven course How to do higher level learning activities with low level writers Common threads across the strategies to support the various populations Providing academic support for students Faculty learning communities How to attract people of color to the geosciences Universal design in the geosciences (addressing disabilities and other learners) Applying research theories to the classroom Application with local examples to engage students

WORKSPACE DETAILS 3.00 – 4.15 Group members What is the focus of your group? What is the significance of this topic to geoscience at 2YCs? What are the major challenges? What are effective strategies and examples of how to use them What is the evidence for success? What are important resources (URLs, papers, references etc.) Assign a workspace leader and/or recorder

STEROID POST-IT NOTE PREPARATION Prepare this at ~4.15 INCLUDE: The focus and significance of you topic Three or four effective strategies/examples from your discussion What your group would like from the reviewers Make a box on you poster for reviewers to post resources using sticky notes

STEROID POST-IT NOTE REVIEW 4.30 – 5.15 Each workgroup should organize staffing your poster during the review (you can swop out members) Everyone else should: review the information respond to the requests from the workgroup add comments and resources to the posters via yellow stickies. POSTER CONTENT The focus and significance of you topic Three or four effective strategies/examples What your group would like from the reviewers Make a box for reviewers to post resources using sticky notes

WORKGROUP REVIEW 5.15 – 5.30 Return to your workgroup and review your comments Please add the results of your review, including resources provided by reviewers to your workspace