1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. WORKGROUP REVIEW – 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