During the next three weeks and the next two years, you will be studying concepts and applications in Geoscience which are appropriate for Texas Middle and High School science courses. The planned activities are designed to help you gain additional knowledge and facility in these concepts and skills. As part of the project evaluation process, it is important to know how comfortable you are with these concepts and skills, how easy it is for you to prepare to teach them, and how comfortable you are in presenting them to teachers in workshop settings. The concepts and skills are listed in Part I,and Part II with a descriptive rating scale. Think about each concept or skill and give yourself a rating. Please respond honestly - your name will not appear in any report prepared from this form. Press SUBMIT when you have completed the two pages.
Rating Scale
4 = complete mastery - I can thoroughly and easily explain this concept to my students or use this skill in instruction without serious reveiw prior to class or use of notes during class. 3 = master - I can explain the concept to my students or use this skill in instruction but need to review prior to class and prepare notes for use during class. 2 = Familiar with but do not claim mastery - I am unsure about the meaning; need thorough study prior to class or use and rely heavily on notes during the presentation or use. 1 = Not familiar with and cannot explain - I know little about this concept or skill and do not know how to use it with my class.
Concept/Skill Rating - press one button Map projection/Distortion 4 3 2 1 Global Positioning System (GPS) 4 3 2 1 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 4 3 2 1 Coastal Area Tectonic Processes 4 3 2 1 Climatic Variability 4 3 2 1 Spatial Variability 4 3 2 1 Satellite and Aerial Photography Interpretation 4 3 2 1 Relationship between Scale and Detail 4 3 2 1 Satellite Data Collection and Usage 4 3 2 1 Climate Change 4 3 2 1 El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 4 3 2 1 Hydrologic Cycle 4 3 2 1 Human/Earth Systems Interaction 4 3 2 1 Water as Nutrient and Pollutant Carrier 4 3 2 1 Spatial Pattern and Distribution 4 3 2 1 Effective Models of Staff Development 4 3 2 1 Global Warming 4 3 2 1 Problem-based Learning 4 3 2 1 Please type in the last 5 digits of your student ID number . This number will be deleted before any data is reported from this self-analysis. Now that you have marked all of your choices, please press the submit button below and your responses will be sent to the database. Thank you.
Now that you have marked all of your choices, please press the submit button below and your responses will be sent to the database. Thank you.