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Carlos Martínez-Hernández; Arie Stoffelen; Radoslaw Piskorski – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers on all levels have had to adapt to an online or hybrid teaching environment. People in geography, a discipline that traditionally values field trips to connect theory to practice, have had to find online alternatives for educational activities that normally would have taken place in the field. This has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers
Finn, John C.; Mazzocca, Ann E.; Goetz, Evan; Gibson, Lisa – Geography Teacher, 2015
This article provides a brief overview of the March 2014 workshop that the authors organized with approximately thirty pre-and in-service teachers from around the state of Virginia. The authors' broad focus in this workshop was the connection between race and the cultural landscape in Virginia. The goals were relatively simple: to get teachers and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Preservice Teachers, Inservice Education, Race
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Baker, Thomas R.; Palmer, Anita M.; Kerski, Joseph J. – Journal of Geography, 2009
This article examines the results of an online national survey of K-12 educators who attended a series of GIS training workshops conducted by the authors between 1998 and 2004. Data from the self-report survey (N = 186) suggest new information about potential changes in instruction and assessment patterns following GIS training. The survey…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Workshops, Professional Development, National Surveys
National Council for Geographic Education (NJ1), 2006
This report examines the outcomes of a workshop held at the National Science Foundation on August 15-16, 2005. Forty-six participants, representing academia, industry, government agencies, professional associations, and special projects met to: (1) discuss how geospatial technology training at two-year colleges can address workforce needs; and…
Descriptors: Training, Needs Assessment, Workshops, On the Job Training