Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Bridges to Germany: Junior Faculty Professional Development Workshop
One of our MCAA German Chapter Members, Olalla Vazquez, is the organiser of a workshop in Mainz on 17-19th May that aims to bring together junior group leaders in chemistry, physics, and astronomy, their academic administration leaders at German Universities, and the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative(CSC) in a unique professional development workshop.
The workshop offers training for junior group leaders in Germany in how to best implement evidence-based pedagogies, how to integrate research and teaching, new strategies for communicating science to the public, and to develop skills in time management, leadership, mentoring students, and networking. The workshop also engages the academic administration leaders in Germany in a dialogue how to leverage professional development for the future academic leaders and lifting the impact of the University. The Cottrell Scholar Collaborative will bring their experience from the successful teacher-scholar model in the USA to the discussion: This workshop combines aspects of two established programs offered by the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative:The CSC New Faculty Workshop and the CSC Academic Leadership Training Workshop..
This workshop is sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement that sponsors the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative, a group of top academics who are renowned for the quality of both their research and their teaching. RCSA promotes transformative change in science education and outreach through the exploration of new pedagogies and the dissemination of proven methods. Since 2016, it has widened its scope to German scholars through partnership with the German-American Fulbright Commission by establishing the Cottrell-Fulbright Award, the first type of junior academic teaching award of its kind in Germany.
Target Group: i) Junior group leaders and habilitated researchers (including junior professors, Junior-dozenten, and Privatdozenten) who are working, or planning to work, at a German university with teaching responsibilities in programs of Chemistry, Physics, or Astronomy. ii) Academic leaders of German Universities.
Cost: There is no registration fee for this workshop.
Accommodation: Accommodation has been set aside at the hotels Novotel and InterCityHotel until April 15th.Participants will need to arrange their own accommodation. Please mention “JGU SPICE” to avail of these rooms.
Application Deadline: 15th of February 2017 - Please click on the button below to apply
Organizers
Olalla Vazquez (Philipps Universität Marburg)
Carla Frohlich (North Carolina State University)
Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)