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Mary Ann,
   My email was a call for presentations th this Fall's Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis, MN (Oct 9-12). Here is a link for the GSA website. Abstracts are due by July 26th and you are typically notified late August/early Sept of the day and time of the talk. Talks are 12 minutes long with 3 minutes for questions. GSA allows people to register for just one day if that's all they can attend.

http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2011/

If you can't make it, I may still might be in contact with you. I am working on a couple of project ideas, so right now I am building a list of people who teach these types of classes.

   Thanks for responding back.
-Kyle

PS.
   I don't know if you have realized this yet, but when you hit 'Reply" to a list-serv posting, your response goes to EVERYONE on the list, not just to the sender. I've done it before with some personal info that I didn't want to be widely distributed. :)

Mary Ann Mutrux wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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.



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Mary Ann Mutrux
Middle School Science Teacher