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Cool CATS, Bright Future:
How One Physics Education Researcher Landed in Astronomy
In This Month’s Teaching Strategy, we hear from Sébastien Cormier about his education and career path, and how it crossed with CAE and our Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS) program. We are very happy to have Sébastien with us as our first postdoc, and we think you’ll enjoying hearing his story. And, if you’re not involved in astronomy education research yet, maybe his story will get you fired up to do some. So, here’s Sébastien!

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Here are some points on the best strategies and uses of clickers recommended by Dr. Javed Iqbal, who has been... More >>
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An Undergrad's Perspective on CAE's Teaching Excellence Workshops
This Month's Teaching Strategy comes to us from Angie Wolfgang (Cornell Univ.). Angie attended our CAE Teaching Excellence Workshop in St. Louis this summer.... More >>
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Revisiting our CAE Teaching Excellence Workshops
Assessment drives student learning, and it should drive our instruction (Brissenden et al, 2002).... More >>
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Seeing the Universe through NASA's Eyes
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Congratualing the Team
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, is seen in this fish-eye view as he congratulates NASA Shuttle Launch Director Michael Leinbach and the launch team in Firing Room Four of the Launch Control Center for a successful launch of the space shuttle Endeavour and the start of the STS-130 mission at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour and its crew will deliver to the International Space Station a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and the seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls... Read More >>

CAE is funded through the generous contributions of the NASA JPL Exoplanet Exploration Public Engagement Program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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