A NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Texas Regional Teaching Exchange: Our Second Attempt

The NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) is dedicated to improving the quality of instruction in the astronomy 101 classroom environment. One tool that the CAE is using in this endeavor around the country is the regional teaching exchange. The idea behind the exchange is to get together people who have attended a CAE teaching workshop or would like to know what goes on at one, to talk about techniques they use in their own classroom and to hear about the available teaching tools coming out of the Astronomy Education Research community. The regional exchanges help build a local community of educators to share ideas, give advice, and perhaps work together on education research of their own. In this talk I will discuss our first attempt to hold an exchange in Texas and what we learned from its failure. I will also announce the details of our upcoming second exchange attempt. The next Texas exchange will be held in the DFW area in February. We will offer a teaching workshop, and are accepting papers to be presented at the exchange.