Workshop/Seminar materials

The AAG books Aspiring Academics and Teaching College Geography are supported by a collection of professional development materials intended for faculty development workshops, graduate seminars and mentoring programs.

The materials provide practical, hands-on activities based on the ideas presented in Aspiring Academics and Teaching College Geography and were written by geographers with input from faculty development professionals. Many of the materials are based on activities developed for the Geography Faculty Development Alliance workshops at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Materials for each chapter in Aspiring Academics and Teaching College Geography may be accessed for free at www.pearsonhighered.com/aag or downloaded as a full package by clicking the following links:

Aspiring Academics workshop/seminar materials (6 MB .zip file)

Teaching College Geography workshop/seminar materials (11 MB .zip file)

The following is a list of activities currently available for each book:

Aspiring Academics chapters	Activities
Chapter 1: Time Management	ACTIVITY 1.1: SHARING TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ACTIVITY 1.2: KEEPING AND ANALYZING A TIME LOG
Chapter 2: Career Planning	ACTIVITY 2.1: FORMULATING A SELF-ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY 2.2: FORMULATING A DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN
Chapter 3: Developing Collegial Relationships	ACTIVITY 3.1: DOES COLLEGIALITY MATTER? ACTIVITY 3.2: BUILDING CONSTRUCTIVE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS ACTIVITY 3.3: OBSERVATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BEING MORE COLLEGIAL
Chapter 4: Balancing Personal and Professional Lives	ACTIVITY 4.1: PLANNING A FAMILY IN GRADUATE SCHOOL AND BEYOND ACTIVITY 4.2: WORK/LIFE STRATEGIES AND STRIVING FOR CHANGE ACTIVITY 4.3: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHALLENGES
Chapter 5: Succeeding at Tenure and Beyond	ACTIVITY 5.1: WHAT ARE THE RULES? ACTIVITY 5.2: WHAT’S IN A DOSSIER? ACTIVITY 5.3: LEARNING FROM SUCCESS ACTIVITY 5.4: REPORTS FROM AN EXPERIENCED DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Chapter 6: Designing Significant Learning Experiences	ACTIVITY 6.1: A SELF-DIRECTED GUIDE TO DESIGNING COURSES FOR SIGNIFICANT LEARNING
Chapter 7: Active Learning	ACTIVITY 7.1: BRAINSTORMING ACTIVITY 7.2: SUCCESS WITH ACTIVE LEARNING: A TEN-STEP APPROACH ACTIVITY 7.3: DESIGNING EFFECTIVE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING MODULES
Chapter 8: Advising Students	ACTIVITY 8.1: DISCUSSING ADVISING SCENARIOS
Chapter 9: Ethical Teaching in Practice	ACTIVITY 9.1: ANALYZING CASE STUDIES OF COLLEGE TEACHING
Chapter 10: Teaching Diverse Students/Teaching for Inclusion	ACTIVITY 10.1: CLASSROOM SCENARIOS ACTIVITY 10.2: DIVERSIFYING SYLLABI, ACTIVITIES, AND COURSES ACTIVITY 10.3: SCENARIOS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Chapter 11: Preparing Competitive Research Grant Proposals	ACTIVITY 11.1: START WITH A GOOD PROBLEM ACTIVITY 11.2: ACHIEVE AND COMMUNICATE COHERENCE
Chapter 12: Ethical Research in Practice	ACTIVITY 12.1: RESEARCH ETHICS—THE REGULATORY CONTEXT ACTIVITY 12.2: A CASE FOR ETHICS
Chapter 13: Academic Publishing	ACTIVITY 13.1: CHOOSING THE RIGHT OUTLET FOR YOUR RESEARCH ACTIVITY 13.2: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF ACADEMIC PUBLISHING ACTIVITY 13.3: UNDERSTANDING THE MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS
Chapter 14: Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries	ACTIVITY 14.1: “CHECKING IN” AT BEGINNING AND END OF TEAM MEETINGS ACTIVITY 14.2: “TEAM IMAGE” ACTIVITY 14.3: CONCEPTUAL CONTENT COGNITIVE MAPPING (3CM) EXERCISE ACTIVITY 14.4: PROBLEM-BASED INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (PBL) GROUP EXERCISE

*Teaching College Geography* chapters	Activities
Chapter 9: GIS and Mapping Technologies	ACTIVITY 9.1: OVERVIEW OF THE EARTH: A VIRTUAL PERSPECTIVE ACTIVITY 9.2: ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY ACTIVITY 9.3: AMERICAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Chapter 10: Looking Beyond the Lecture	ACTIVITY 10.1: A GUIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALIGNED ACTIVE LEARNING FOCUSED CLASS
Chapter 11: Teaching in the Field	ACTIVITY 11.1: A GUIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALIGNED FIELD EXERCISE/COURSE
Chapter 12: Geography and Global Learning	ACTIVITY 12.1: CENTER FOR GLOBAL GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION