Donna Governor was recently elected as the Preservice Teacher Preparation Division Director of the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), “the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning.” NSTA currently has 50,000 members, including science teachers and supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others. Congratulations, Donna, and go change the world!
Governor was awarded the David P. Butts Outstanding Alumni award from the Science Education department at the University of Georgia (UGA). Her dissertation chair, David Jackson, presented her with the award at a gathering of science education faculty and current graduate students at UGA.
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Our very own Doug Lombardi received the 2020 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award from the Society for Text & Discourse. The award is reserved for “early-career scholars who have contributed in an exceptional and innovative way to the progress of discourse research.” He will be presented the award in the 2020 Society for Text & Discourse meeting in Atlanta Georgia, and will speak at the following annual meeting in Oslo, Norway. Congratulations, Doug!
Janelle Bailey gave a keynote presentation at the first-ever International Astronomical Union Commission C1 Conference on Astronomy Education: Bridging Research and Practice, on September 16 in Garching, Germany. The talk, entitled “AER Pathways: Recent Research and Future Developments,” opened the conference after welcoming remarks from the IAU General Secretary and the conference organizers. Although the conference was small, with only about 120 people there, it was filled to the capacity of the host site, the European Southern Observatory’s Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre.
Find a PDF of the talk here: Bailey 2019 – AER Pathways.
Check out Doug Lombardi’s presentation, The Curious Case of Active Learning, at the Educational Psychology Colloquium at UMD (9/10/19)!
Our team had such a great time working with Georgia teachers this past week to share the MEL/baMEL resources with educators.
It is always exciting to hear how teachers envision their students using the MEL activities in their own classrooms.
Our very own SLRG team member Dr. Donna Governor published new book “Staging Family Science Nights” now available on the NSTA science store. The book serves as an accessible handbook designed for helping you to create an informal learning environment that will generate enthusiasm and enjoyment of science among the entire family. The book’s first section—“Producing the Event”—devotes eight chapters to planning, recruiting volunteers (including students), setting up, last-minute troubleshooting, and injecting pizazz. The four chapters in the second section—“On the Stage”—offer guidance and templates for activities at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels. Activities include “Balancing Bugs,” “Bubble Olympics,” and “Creating Color Slime.”
Congratulations to SLRG members Shondricka Burrell and Reed Kendall who will be representing the graduate and undergraduate classes, respectively, as the 2019 Temple College of Education Graduation speakers! Their speeches will feature views on how educators should be agents of growth in their communities. We can hardly wait to hear your speeches!
Timothy G. Klavon, graduate research assistant in SLRG, has been selected for the 2019 Sandra K. Abell Institute. Selection is highly competitive and many congratulations to Tim!
The Sandra K. Abell Institute is a prestigious event for promising doctoral students in the discipline of science education research and recognizes the importance of investing in these talented individuals. Tim joins a select group of doctoral students and science education scholars that have participated over the last decade.
The 2019 Institute will be held at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.
Check out Doug Lombardi’s article about scientific thinking, recently published in APA Science Directorate’s Psychological Science Agenda
