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January |
No Meeting - Welcome Back |
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January |
NFI meeting: Teaching This session will be facilitated by Glaucia Silva (POR), Office of Faculty Development interim Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning. |
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February |
NFI Meeting: Scholarship and the Tenure Clock UMD faculty discuss how to build your scholarly career while keeping an eye on the tenure clock. |
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February |
NFI Meeting: Teaching This session will be facilitated by Glaucia Silva (POR), Office of Faculty Development interim Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning. |
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February |
NFI Meeting: Teaching with Technology Facilitated by the Instructional Development Team. Learn about new technologies available for UMD faculty and the pedagogical uses of these technologies. |
| February 27 |
NFI Meeting: Service Learning and Service/Government Service learning is an integral part of the UMD educational experience. Indeed, UMD is one of the top universities in the volunteering, service learning, and civic engagement. Meet Matt Roy, Director of UMD's Center for Civic Engagement. Also meet Grant O'Rielly, President of the Faculty Senate. |
| March 6 |
NFI Meeting: Publishing Tips Experienced editors will offer advice on publishing articles and books. |
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March |
No Meeting. |
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March |
BREAK --- Enjoy the Spring Break. |
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March |
NFI Meeting: Backward Design This session will be facilitated by Cathy Smilan (AED). Forget what you thought you knew about course design! Come and learn how to do it properly: backwards. |
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April |
NFI Meeting: The "Bigger Picture" A session on initiatives outside our individual classrooms that are part of our students' educational experiences: Honors, study abroad, research, University Studies. |
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April |
NFI Meeting: Teaching Narratives Note: This workshop is hands-on! Please bring copies of syllabi, representative assignment sheets, peer review reports, and more. We will begin drafting your teaching narrative for your contract renewal. |
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April |
No Meeting: Follow Monday's Schedule |
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April |
Final Meeting: Reviewing the Year Wrapping up the semester. Informal discussion of your experiences at the end of the year. If you would like, you can also bring the necessary information for your FAR (and a laptop) and we can draft your FAR |
