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Continuing Leon Long’s Legacy Innovations in geoscience teaching
Laurie Schuur Duncan and Hilary Clement OlsonUniversity of Texas at Austin
Jackson School of GeosciencesContact us at [email protected] and [email protected]
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Preservation of pedagogy High stakes for geoscience
teachers What can we learn from a
master teacher? Relationships Relevance Rigor
Leon’s advice
Continuing Leon Long’s Legacy
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Preservation of PedagogyThis is the best way to teach and learn geology.
Captain Geo explaining cross-cutting relationships among dikes in the Valley Spring Gneiss at Inks Lake State Park, TX
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Preservation of Pedagogy
What is the best way to teach geology in other settings? To different audiences? With our own personal styles?
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High stakes for geoscience teachers
NOAA State of Climate Change Report 2009
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High stakes for geoscience teachers
“The public’s appreciation for science
is a mile wide and a nanometer thick”
- Michael Turner, physicist
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 1. Relationships are the foundation.
“I always marveled at the time Leon spent talking to students, until I realized one day, he wasn’t talking to them. He was
listening to them.” – Professor Dan Barker, UTDGS
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 2. Relevance: Topics that are personally
meaningful are more interesting.
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 2. Relevance: Exuberance is infectious.
125th Anniversary Expedition of the Geological Society of America, Antarctica
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 3. Relevance and rigor: Science is a discipline.
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 3. Rigor: Sometimes it is good to struggle.
Question #5 from Chapter 18 on Structural GeologyIn GEOLOGY by Leon Long, 15th edition
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 3. Rigor: Sometimes it is good to struggle.
How did you do?
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What can we learn from a master teacher?# 3. Rigor: Personal perseverance and scholarship
are important.
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Leon’s questions for geology students
• Can you handle this difficult
technical subject?
• Do you mind working on a
scientific problem for which
only fragmentary evidence is
available?
• Do you think you would enjoy
doing what a geologist does for
years and years?
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Leon’s advice
“As a geologist you can do just about anything with
your career in combinations pleasing to you, such as
working outdoors or indoors, with computers,
writing, doing lab work, field work, detailed or
large-scale research. Geologists and geology
students alike enjoy an incredible variety of
experiences combined with great adventure…and
risk. They are nuts about travel, seeing as much of
this earth as they can!”
- Leon E. Long from the UT Jackson School website
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Away we go!
Continuing Leon Long’s Legacy following in his footsteps