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

1. Discussion of spring schedule
2. Teaching with Technology
Presenters: Grant O’Riellly (PHY); Jen Riley (ENL/WMS & IT team); Tracey Russo and Damon Gatenby, IT team
Learn about the use of "clickers" for large classes and new technologies available to faculty and their pedagogical uses.

NFI Meeting: Presentation on Grant Proposal Development
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

Christopher Eisenhart, English
Joanne Zanella-Litke, Director, Office of Research Administration

Although this presentation is aimed primarily at the neophyte grant writer, or those of you who are only interested in writing small grants, it will contain information that is of interest to all prospective grant writers. Chris Eisenhart teaches the grant writing course for UMD's Graduate Program in Professional Writing. He will help us work on style, writing abstracts, summarizing and presenting information, etc. Part of the session will also be on assessing and rating sample proposals. Joanne Zanella-Litke will explain how to put together the budget for a proposal.

NFI Meeting: nformational Session
Service/Teaching/Faculty Governance
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

1. Brian Williams (HST) - public service and developing your academic research into areas that are of general interest
2. CTE advisory board - meet the people and hear about their experiences with the CTE. Get tips on successful applications for CTE supported ventures
3. Michael Baum (PSC), Senate President (Michael will also talk about the different Senate committees)
4. Jim Griffith (MLS), Faculty Federation President

NFI Meeting: Workshop
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

Assessing Learning: Grading Rubrics and "Backward Design"

Presenter: Cathy Smilan, Director, MAE Program

Curriculum design and course planning is often treated as a matter of administering tests, etc. on the material. Instead, learn how to first develop the criteria by which a student will be assessed and then design your curriculum. In this way, teachers can better ensure that the material they present and the activities they guide are most effectively tied to the learning of objectives that will eventually be assessed. This workshop will provide an overview of Backward Design and collaborative opportunity to construct grading rubrics

NFI Meeting: Academic Publishing and Creative Work
3:00-5:00 p.m.; CCB 115

A discussion about academic publishing and creative work with UMD ’s more prolific researchers from a variety of fields. Learn from those who have experienced the highs and lows of the public nature of the scholarly enterprise.

NFI Meeting
TBA

Enjoy the break!

NFI Meeting
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

1. Service Learning. Matt Roy (BUS), Assistant Provost &  Director of the Center for Civic Engagement
2. Mid-Semester Evaluations
An informal discussion of your mid-semester teaching evaluations and strategies for improving student learning

NFI Meeting: Grants II
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

Presenters: Stephen Hegedus, Director, James   J. Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education
Joanne Zanella-Litke, Director, Office of Research Administration

This presentation is given by one of UMD's most successful grant writers. It will look at what goes into successful (and unsuccessful) proposals. It is aimed at writing grants from $10K to $10M. 

Note that the earlier session on grant writing will offer an opportunity to discuss ways experienced graduate students in professional writing might intern with you as grant writers.   

NFI Meeting: Contract renewals and FAR
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

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: Teaching Narratives
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374

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.

NFI Meeting: Presentation
3:00-5:00 p.m.; CCB 115

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Presenter: Dr. Kathy M. Takayama, Carnegie Scholar and Associate Director for Life and Physical Sciences at Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

Dr. Takayama is a molecular biologist and SoTL scholar, who also works on arts-sciences collaborations. She is a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and serves on the editorial board of the society's journal. She will provide a workshop on getting started and publishing in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

NFI Meeting: SoTL at UMD
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374  

1. Hear about the Honors Program from Rob Darst (PSC), Director, and Jennifer Mulnix (PHL), Associate Director
2. UMD faculty talk about their SoTL projects

Final Meeting: Reviewing the Year
3:00-5:00 pm; LARTS (Group I) 374 

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.