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TESEP's first series of
professional development workshops, entitled The Challenging Earth, is now
highly acclaimed and well established. The topics for the workshops were selected
from those nominated in an Australia wide survey of teachers. They reflect
topical issues and teacher needs and are designed to mesh with existing
curriculum requirements in all states. The eight topics are
 PD1: Round and Round with
Rocks
(The rock cycle, ore bodies and crustal
geology)
PD2: Riding the Climate
Roller Coaster
PD3: Greening coal
(carbon sequestration)
PD4: Fossil sunlight (the
hydrocarbon story)
PD5: Wet rocks (ground
water)
PD6: Hot rocks
(geothermal energy)
PD7: Our Place in
Space
PD8: Powerful stuff (the
energy debate)
TESEP Stage 2 is now under development
and will comprise
On-line interactive
webinar delivery of Stage 1 PDs
Ongoing delivery of Stage
1 PDs in new locations
across regional Australia
Development of national
case studies to supplement
the ESWA Earth and Environmental Science
Textbook
Development of field
guides - simply-worded stop-by-stop
descriptive guides for teachers and worksheet
questions for
various year levels
Purchase and distribution
of quality teaching resources to
participating teachers
TESEP operates under the auspices of
the Australian Science Teachers Association with guidance from an advisory board
with members from:
The Australian Geoscience
Council (AGC)
The Australian Institute
of Geoscientists (AIG)
The Australian Society of
Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG)
The Australian Science
Teachers Association (ASTA)
The Australian Institute
of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)
Geoscience Australia
(GA)
The Geological Society of
Australia (GSA)
Minerals Council
Australia (MCA)
The Petroleum Exploration
Society of Australia (PESA)
and therefore receives advice from the highest levels of all sectors of the
Australian Earth Science and Education communities.
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