Since its inception in 2004, the Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) has been conducting Teaching Excellence Workshops that target Astro 101 instructors). Thus far, CAE has conducted approximately 40 workshops in more than half of the U.S. states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, attended by over 1,000 Astro 101 college instructors. These workshops aim to improve instructors’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), in an effort to help them better implement a learner-centered classroom and, by extension, improve their students’ understanding of, and attitudes toward learning, astronomy and
science in general.

With the creation of our NSF funded CCLI Phase III Centers grant program for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS) program, CAE has created additional workshops in this series. Many of these new workshops have been created, and are presented, in conjunction with CATS fellows. We have also created a CAE/CATS Workshop Leader Apprenticeship program to train CATS fellows to lead their own workshops.

For information about our upcoming workshops, and to register, please visit our workshop page:

CAE/CATS Workshops