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Dear Kyle and others in List Serve, I teach Earth Science for Elementary Educators at Missouri State University - West Plains. I am an adjunct instructor who has taught the class for 3 of the past 5 years. I will be teaching this class next year and for some time in the foreseeable future. I have taught Earth Science and General Science for 26 years in two rural public school districts in the Missouri Ozarks. I have had a few students both in grade 8 and college! I have found some successful strategies and I have had many frustrations! I wish that I could attend your session, but I don't have any travel accounts available as an adjunct. I will gladly write up a short summary of my successes and frustrations. Is their a certain format that you desire? Is a first person summary of my experiences acceptable? When is the due date? Lastly, I would really like to have some sort of summary from your workshop. Will this be possible? I am basically on my own with this class. I am glad to find out that I am not alone in my "world." Respectfully, Mary Ann Mutrux On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Kyle Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ** > As you return from the July 4th holiday, Ann Bykerk-Kauffman and myself > would like to encourage submissions to our session (T178) on teaching earth > science content to preservice elementary teachers. The session info and > abstract are listed below. We envision this session as a forum for > discussing the different strategies that we use in our courses as well as > barriers or frustrations that we have encountered. Feel free to contact us > if you have any questions. > > -Kyle Gray > > T178. *Reaching the Next Generation: Tales of Successful Strategies and > Frustrating Challenges from Teaching Earth-Science Courses For Pre-Service > Elementary Teachers* > *GSA Geoscience Education Division; National Association of Geoscience > Teachers* > Kyle Gray, Ann Bykerk-Kauffman Content courses specifically designed for > pre-service elementary teachers often present unique challenges for > instructors. This session includes effective course designs, lessons, > methodologies, and research findings on factors that improve student > learning within this context. > -- Mary Ann Mutrux Middle School Science Teacher