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NFI Meeting: Teaching with Technology
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Dion 109

# 1 Discussion of Spring Schedule
# 2 Teaching with Technology
Presenters: Grant O'Riellly, Jen Riley and Tracey Russo
Learn about the use of "clickers" for large classes and current technologies available to faculty.

NFI Meeting: Informational Session
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Michael Baum, Senate President
Jim Griffith, Faculty Federation President
Patty White, Ethical Standards Committee
Elizabeth Lehr, English/WMS, Preventing Plagiarism
Michael Lagrassa, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Administrative

NFI Meeting: Teaching Techniques
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374

Faculty presenters will discuss their techniques for teaching large classes and for stimulating class discussion in small classes.

NFI Meeting: Presentation on Grant Proposal Development
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Joanne Zanella-Litke, Director, Office of Research Administration

NFI Meeting: Public Speaking
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Dr. Kathleen Torrens, Department of Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island, will give a workshop designed to improve lecturing and paper presentation skills.

NFI Meeting: Creating and Assessing Assignments
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Andrea Klimt (ANT), Frank Scarano (MLS) will talk about creating engaging assignments and assignment assessment. Kari Mofford (Library) will talk about the roles that librarians can play in helping faculty with assignment development and support.

SPRING BREAK: Enjoy the break!

NFI Meeting: Meeting with Provost and Deans
3:00-5:00 p.m.; CCB 115
Provost Garro and the Deans of the different colleges will come to talk to you about contract renewals and tenure.

NFI Meeting: Teaching Narratives
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Note: This workshop is hands-on! Please bring copies of your event activity reports, syllabi, representative assignment sheets, peer review reports, and more. We will begin drafting your teaching narrative.

Presenter: Dr. Spencer Benson,  Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland-College Park
3:00-5:00 p.m.; CCB 115
This session is sponsored by the Faculty Federation and will be open to all faculty.

How People Learn: Connecting Knowledge, Pedagogy and Assessment

This is an interactive workshop designed to help the participants understand some of the fundamentals of how people learn and how to integrate this into the pedagogies of their courses. It will also include discussion on several ways to have assessments work to increase student learning.

NFI Meeting: Book Publishing
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Faculty presenters will come and discuss the process of publishing monographs and edited collections.

NFI Meeting – Contract renewals and FAR
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
Annual Reviews Workshop & Contract Renewal Q & A
#1: Contract Renewal Q & A
# 2: FARs. Bring the necessary information for your FAR and a laptop to the session and you can begin to write your FAR.

Sustainability, Honors, COMPASS and reviewing the year
3:00-5:00 p.m.; Group I/Larts, 374
#1: Jerry Blitefield (COMPASS) and Rob Darst (Honors) will talk about their respective programs. They will then talk about the proposed sustainability minor.
# 2: 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.

No Meeting
Please try and attend the Honors Convocation. This is a great event to support.