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2009 SRCD Developmental Science Teaching Institute

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) invites you to submit for the 2009 SRCD Developmental Science Teaching Institute, to be held at the Colorado Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Denver in Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2009.

The SRCD Developmental Science Teaching Institute is designed for teachers of developmental courses at all levels who wish to develop strategies for engaging students, to explore new ideas, to update their knowledge base, and to share ideas and perspectives with like-minded professionals.

To accomplish these goals and encompass broad areas of interest for beginning to advanced teachers of developmental science, the Institute provides two plenary sessions, a variety of breakout sessions, a poster session, and opportunities for interaction in order to share ideas among participants. The diverse presentation formats allow occasions for informal exchange and enable participants to select an agenda that meets their professional development needs.

Questions? Contact Birgit Swanson at (734) 926-0610 or biennialmeeting@srcd.org.

Submission Deadlines (all formats): March 1, 2009

Entering Data Into the Submission Website

  1. Submitting, review of submissions, and production of the Teaching Institute program are all done electronically, and it is essential to recognize that what you enter for your submission is what will appear in the printed program book and in the online program schedule. Please pay attention to details:
    • For the purpose of uniquely identifying yourself and every person included on your submission(s), enter a current full name, email address, and affiliation for each person. This information is used throughout the submitting and review process for identification and also ensures that our email communication reaches everyone.
    • Use proper capitalization and punctuation in your titles, integrative statements, and summaries; and
    • Run a spell- and grammar-check in your word-processor before uploading files to the submission website.
  2. To protect the anonymity of the review process, for documents produced in MS Word and WordPerfect, click on the Tools menu, then on Options, and then on the Security tab; check "Remove personal information from file properties on save."
  3. Be sure to save a final copy of your edited document before uploading your file to the submission website: Accept all changes and turn the "track changes" tool off.
  4. After you finalize your submission,
    • No summary substitutions may be made. (Note: Summaries are for review purposes only.)
    • No title substitutions are allowed.
    • No substitutions of presentations within a symposium are allowed.
  5. Completion of a submission online is considered an agreement to present the submitted work in the specified format at its scheduled time. If your submission is accepted, the material presented at the meeting must substantively match that described in the summary submitted for review.

Review Criteria for All Submission Formats. The purpose of the Teaching Institute is to share information, perspectives and techniques that may positively impact the teaching of Developmental Science. While preference in the review process is given to submissions with student learning outcomes, we encourage the submission of techniques, demonstrations and discussion issues that would have broad positive impact on the teaching of Developmental Science. Submissions are reviewed according to the following criteria:

  1. Relevance of topic to teaching methods, techniques, or pedagogy.
  2. Clarity of formulation/conceptualization.
  3. Adequacy of methods (preference is given to submissions with outcomes data).
  4. Appropriateness of interpretations and suggested classroom/teaching application.

Submissions may be denied review if:

  1. Submission instructions are not followed.
  2. The integrative statement or summary exceeds the stated maximum number of pages.
  3. Material is submitted in two formats, e.g., both as a poster and a symposium presentation.
  4. Material was presented elsewhere (including other 2009 SRCD venues) and prior permission was not requested and granted to submit for this meeting.
  5. The submission involves a commercial product for which the author has a vested interest.

Submission Formats

For detailed format information, click on the format name below. A new window will open so that you may read and print the pertinent information.

  1. Poster
  2. Roundtable Discussion

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