Education Division

COURSE & SPEAKER DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE

Committee Charges

• Prepare, schedule and organize subcommittee meetings.

• Prepare and submit committee reports to the Education Committee chair in time to be included in the quarterly board books.

• Prepare, schedule and organize TSPS Course Development Program and Speaker Development Program. Coordinate Course Development and Speaker Development and activities with TSPS staff and education committee. 

• Update and maintain the listing of current TSPS course offerings and courses to be developed.

• Update and maintain the approved speaker listing for TSPS.

• Identify and recruit new TSPS members for both the approved speaker program and for course development.

Measurable Goals:

• Recruit at least four teams to participate in the 2009 Course Development Program

• Conduct at least one Course Development Workshop by August 2009.

• Conduct one Speaker Development Workshop by August 2009. 

• Train and qualify ten new speakers through the Speaker Development Program by March 2009

• Develop and present one TSPS course for a related industry to help educate them about the surveying profession by August 2009.

• Write at least one article for a TSPS Publication to describe the Course Development and Speaker Development Programs.

Course development this year will be slightly different than in previous years. We have a handful of courses that have been started but are incomplete. We will focus on completing these courses to create them as protable and ready for chapters to use. We have identified the following courses to complete:

·         Survey Math 101

·         Survey Math 102

·         Survey Instrumentation Workshop

·         Basic Field Operations

·         RTK Basic Operations & Troubleshooting

·         Safety & First Aide for Field Procedures

We will be recruiting both experienced and new course developers to help with these courses.

Additionally, we have three course developers who want to develop another course:

·         Jack Avis: Hands – on GIS

·         James Redmon: Survey Economics

·         George Forbis-Stokes: Topographic Surveys

By the time of this report, the Speaker Development Workshop will have been held with 10 attendees.

Shannan and I are finalizing the 2009 Speaker Development Schedule and Program. I plan on presenting the program to the education committee for approval. 
 

SEMINAR & SYMPOSIUM SUBCOMMITTEE
 

SubCommittee Mandate: Prepare, schedule and organize subcommittee meetings.  Prepare and submit committee reports to the Education Committee chair in time to be included in the quarterly board books.  Plan and organize the TSPS seminar offerings for both CEU’s and paraprofessionals in accordance with the TSPS professional development curriculum categories.  Plan and organize the symposium for this year and for the near future.  Provide suggestions for future seminar offerings in coordination with the Course Development & Speaker Development Subcommittee.  Work with TSPS staff members to work out logistics for the seminars and symposiums.  Help seek local volunteers for both the seminars and symposium.  Work with TSPS staff members to insure that any scheduled seminars are listed on the TSPS website.  Coordinate with the On-line/Distance Learning Subcommittee to offer on-line courses.

 
The following have taken place since the last Board Meeting:

During the past 3 months, we have held 3 seminars.  “Implementing GIS in a Business Environment” presented in Beaumont on November 15,  “GNSS, Geodesy and Map Projections for  Texas Land Surveyors” presented in Dallas on December 6, and “The Internet for Land Surveyors” presented in Austin on December 17. All were well attended.

The following seminars are scheduled to be held over the next few months.

“Heart of Texas Boundary Retracement” to be presented March 5-7 by Gerry Goodson, Ben Thompson, Greg Smythe, Bill O’Hara, Davey Edwards and Paul Carey in Brady.

Symposium 2009 to be held in Waco at the Hilton Waco Hotel and the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum on March 20 and 21. As a bit of a change from the normal course format, we will be holding a Panel Discussion on Friday afternoon on the topic of Oil and Gas Surveying which will include panelists from different backgrounds.

And for the future,

Symposium 2010 to be held in Lubbock March 19 and 20. 

This subcommittee continues to use  Go To Meeting at appropriate times, and has met as part of the Education Committee at each quarterly Board Meeting.

Respectfully Submitted by:

Jim Gillis, Chair

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