Do you engage students and members of the public in learning about Astronomy and want to make these educational experiences more successful? This full-day workshop will provide activities to help you successfully combine principles of learning, course design structures, and classroom-tested instructional strategies to create learning environments that are:

1. Inclusive – and welcoming for students of all backgrounds into a safe and supportive community;
2. Active – engaging students in collaborations that deepen their astronomical knowledge, reasoning abilities, and problem-solving skills; and
3. Effective – resulting in significant learning gains and retention of students.

This workshop is led by astronomy and physics education researchers with the Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) and the Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute (FTI) who have spent the past 20 years studying how to best support learners in introductory science courses. Come learn how to effectively facilitate whole-class and small-group discussions, implement in-class voting, tutorials, ranking tasks, and other active-learning curricula, and how to motivate students’ understanding of the role of science in society. We have specifically designed the workshop to provide participants with a safe and supportive environment that increases their agency, fosters open discourse, promotes reflection on their identities, beliefs, and local context. This workshop is appropriate for all members of the AAS, at all points in their career paths, including grad students, post-docs, middle school and high school teachers, informal educators, college faculty, research scientists, amateur astronomers, and administrators. Any instructor of any level of experience will benefit, regardless of whether their classes are large or small, introductory level or upper division, or in-person, virtual, or hybrid.

Price: 35.00 for this add-on workshop to the annual AAS meeting.