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NFI meeting: Teaching with Technology
3:00-5:00pm; Dion 109

Facilitated by the Instructional Development Team

Learn about new technologies available for UMD faculty and the pedagogical uses of these technologies.

NFI Meeting: Publishing
3-5pm; LARTS, 397D

UMD faculty discuss how to build your publishing career while keeping an eye on the tenure clock.

NFI Meeting: Teaching
3:30-5pm; LARTS, 397D

Please note different start time

This session will be facilitated by Glaucia Silva (POR), Office of Faculty Development interim Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning.

NFI Meeting: Finding the Balance
3-5pm; LARTS, 397D

An informal discussion with other NFI cohorts and recently tenured faculty about finding the balance between teaching, publishing, service and life outside your career.

NFI Meeting: Teaching
3-5pm; LARTS, 397D

This session will be facilitated by Glaucia Silva (POR), Office of Faculty Development interim Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning.

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NFI Meeting - "Writing More (Often)"
3-5pm; CCB115

Presenter: Paul Silvia, Associate Professor, Psychology, UNC-Greensboro and author of How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing.

In this talk, we’ll cover some strategies and motivational tips for writing productively despite the weekly madness of academic life.

This presentation is not to be missed !

NFI Meeting: Teaching Narratives

3-5pm, LARTS, 397D

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. 

NFI Meeting w/OFD: "Writing Measurable Learning Outcomes"
3-5pm; CCB 115

This session introduces participants to a UMD designed online learning module. The module assists faculty in writing measurable, specific, results oriented learning outcomes that are targeted to the level of your course and consistent with departmental learning outcomes. Please bring at least two syllabi (one lower-level course, one upper-level course), and your departmental learning outcomes.

NFI Meeting: Contract Renewals and FAR
3-5pm; LARTS, 397D

Annual Reviews Workshop & Contract Renewal Q & A

#1 – Contract Renewal Q & A
#2 – FAR’s. Bring the necessary information for your FAR and a laptop to the session and you can begin to write your FAR.

NFI Meeting w/OFD: Reflective Teaching Practices: Critical Writing Poster Session
3-5pm; Faculty Dinning Room

As part of its commitment to promote teaching development, the OFD has supported several projects that have promoted critical writing in Spring 2012 courses. Faculty who have implemented these projects will share their results in a poster session on April 25. Join us for a poster session with wine and cheese, when UMD faculty from various disciplines will present and discuss different strategies for engaging students in critical writing. The poster session format will allow attendees to focus on projects of particular interest, interacting with the presenters as they learn more about project implementation and results obtained.

Reviewing the Year
3-4/4:30pm, LARTS 397D

Wrapping up the semester. Informal discussion of your experiences at the end of the year. Please feel free to request a focus on a specific issue or the return of any of our previous UMD speakers.