New Faculty Orientation Guide

Teaching

• Syllabus template
• Universal design
• Modeling best practices
• Integrating technology into teaching (see: resources available in classrooms; Helen's Technology Guides)
• Policies: attendance, drop/add, exams
• Teaching quality, methods
• Team/turn teaching
• Office hours and availability outside of class
• Course website (examples)
• Class alias (requesting a class alias)
• Incomplete policy
• Grading
• Teaching assistants (TAs)
• Connection to practicum placements
• Class schedules and set up time between classes (class schedules)
• Missing classes (illness, conferences)
• Summer school, J-term, special session classes
• Continuing Education
• Inloading vs. overloading classes
• Bringing in outside speakers
• Outside of class activities for candidates
• Change of grade forms

Advising (Spring)

• Purposes
• Office hours
• Accessing student records
• Using Academic Progress Audit System (APAS)
• Student Affairs Office

Research (Tenure and Tenture Track only)

Service

• Department
• College
• Campus
• Professional organizations
• Community

Other

• Meetings: department, program, Field Experience
• Collaboration
• Partnering with P-12 school
• Commencement
• Outside consulting
• Typing of syllabi and other documents
• NCATE
• Who to notify if you are away
• Printing from computer department laser printers
• Faculty Resources web page
• Annual Performance Review

Nuts and Bolts

Using Department Technology and Equipment

• Mistress key
• Copier and risograph
• Laptop carts
• Digital video cameras
• CPS (keypads to record student answers to questions)
• Computer projectors
• Coffee
• Recycling (in own offices, in kitchen, across campus)

Miscellaneous

• Where to find stuff
• Who is who, what they do (faculty, staff, work study students)
• Phone system
• Email, class aliases
• Parking
• Teaching evaluation forms
• Ordering textbooks
• Getting class lists, checking class status
• Overrides ("magic numbers")
• UMD ID card

Orientation to Campus

• Getting around: maps and directions
• Library
• Bookstores
• Technology
  • AV services (where, what, how to use – faculty and students) (check-out equipment)
  • student computer labs
  • faculty labs (Learning Technology Center)
  • VDIL
  • classroom technology
  • using laptops in classroom
• Sports facilities
• Food (Griggs, Kirby, coffee cart)
• Credit union, automatic deposit

Structure of University

• University of Minnesota system
• College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP) structure
• Education Department structure

Faculty Support

• Instructional Development Service (IDS)
  • Workshops
  • One-on-one
  • Website
• Information Technology Systems and Services (ITSS)
• Workshops
• One-on-one
• Technophytes
• Tech Camp
• Website (ITSS Home Page and Technology Resource Guide)
• UMD as your Internet Service Provider:
  • Email
  • Website
  • Storage space
  • Novell and Mac accounts (and software available)
• Union (University Education Association – UEA)
  • Grants
  • Research grants
  • Chancellor’s grant Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)
  • Regents' Scholarship
• Travel support: department and college

Useful Campus Websites

• Education Department: http://www.d.umn.edu/educ/
• CEHSP: http://www.d.umn.edu/cehsp/
• ITSS: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/
• IDS: http://www.d.umn.edu/cehsp/ids/
• Helen's Technology Guides: http://www.d.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/index.html

Glossary of Acronyms and Terms

Tenure Track Faculty

• Mentors
• Research expectations
• Annual performance review for probationary faculty
• Using start-up funds
• Observing others and being observed

Acronyms and Terms

• CACTE: Community Advisory Council for Teacher Education (Education Department advisory group of local P-12 school people)
• Candidates: Education department students (differentiates them from P-12 students)
• CEHSP: College of Education and Human Service Professions
• CLA: College of Liberal Arts
• ECh: Early Childhood
• ELC: Education Leadership Council (department leadership group)
• HPER: Health, Physical Education and Recreation
• MACTE: Minnesota Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
• NCATE: National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
• OFE: Office of Field Experiences (UMD Education Department)
• SBE: School of Business and Economics
• SEC: Student Education Council (Education Department advisory group of students from each program)
• STEP: Secondary and K-12 Teacher Education Program
• TEC: Teacher Education Council (advisory committee to Education Department with representatives from across campus)