1. A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues
InTeGrate supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues both within geoscience courses and across the undergraduate curriculum.
What is InTeGrate
An NSF STEP Center
DUE

2. Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future
Geoscience must come together with other disciplines as our nation and the world struggle with significant environmental and resource challenges.
Meeting these challenges will require a savvy public, a new kind of workforce, and a broader understanding of geoscience by all who engage these issues
Gloss this quickly – the point is that geoscience is important both for the workforce and broad literacy
USGS
Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

3. Implicit in this model is that InTeGrate supports transformation of teaching in higher education to support engaged learning.

4. A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and Education
InTegrate builds on Cutting Edge and Building Strong Departments. It works at faculty/course scale and at the department/program scale. Both efforts are supported by professional development workshops and a website. Most of the activity in the first year has been on materials development and professional development. A year from now there will be small grants for program development.

5. Materials Development Teams
Developed and tested by teams with members from at least 3 institutions
2 year commitment to development, testing, revision and publication
Supported by assessment team member to meet design rubric, develop embedded assessments for use in testing
$45,000 stipend for modules and $75,000 stipend for courses
Materials development is the other big thing with opportunities right now. Empahsize that development is by teams with members from 3 institutions, that it is a 2 year commitents and that you have to be able/willing to use the materials in a course (or for the case of a course, teach the whole course) in the second year.
Call for proposals

6. Design Goals*
Address one or more geoscience-related grand challenges facing society
Develop student ability to address interdisciplinary problems
Improve student understanding of the nature and methods of geoscience and developing geoscientific habits of mind
Make use of authentic and credible geoscience data to learn central concepts in the context of geoscience methods of inquiry
Develop systems thinking
* Referred to as Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design

7. Pedagogic Goals
Engaged, student centered, research based pedagogy supports higher order learning
Alignment of goals, materials and assessments supports and documents learning
Develops scientific thinking and an understanding of the process of science
Materials can be used successfully in multiple settings

8. Implementation Goals
Materials are used widely by faculty across the country
Materials are used in courses outside geoscience departments
Learning by students can be documented to show increased higher level understanding of sustainability and geoscience

9. Linking Goals and Process: The Materials Design Rubric
Guiding Principles
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
Assessment and Measurement
Resources and Materials
Instructional Strategies
Alignment

10. Linking Goals and Process: Part 2: Testing and Publishing
Collection of assessment data
Revision of materials
Publication of teaching materials and supporting information for faculty
Case studies document implementation at your institutions

11. Executive Editor/Team Lead
Documentation
Assessment consultant
CMS
Webteam Liaison
October Meeting