The Instructional Development Service (IDS) works with faculty members, adjuncts, and GTAs across all disciplines and in a variety of ways to improve teaching and to enhance the culture of teaching and learning at UMD.
Our services include:
- individual and group teaching consultations
- workshops, ongoing discussion groups
- providing instructional resources
Latest News!!
Check out The Teaching Professor from Magna Publications, a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research on effective teaching in the college classroom.
You can access it on-campus at www.magnapubs.com/group. To automatically receive an email reminder for each new issue, go to www.magnapubs.com/accountFor detailed, step-by-step instructions on accessing the The Teaching Professor from off-campus, please email Jason Ellis at jellis2@d.umn.edu
Call for Proposals: Creating an Inclusive Curriculum!!!!
Applications are now being accepted for the faculty cohort program on Creating an Inclusive Curriculum, held January 15-17, 2013. This program will engage faculty in significant course design or redesign by participating in a multidisciplinary cohort of their peers. See the Request for Proposals for more information.Completed proposals are due by 4:00 p.m. on December 5, 2012
For questions, please contact Shelley Smith, ssmith3@d.umn.edu or 726-7715.
Learning it Forward: Taking responsibility for the Future is a new program for the fall that will provide a"Sustainable Community of Scholars" designed to help faculty successfully embed issues of sustainability into their coursework. The group will have continued conversations about "creating a curriculum of consequence" that can change students' views sutainable solutions to the problems andtasks that ace us all in the 21st century.
If you are interested in particpating, contact LeAne Rutherford at 218-726-6207 or lrutherf@d.umn.edu
Midcareer Program
IDS welcomes Cindy Spillers, Ph.D., as its first, ever faculty fellow for the 2012-13 academic year. She brings a strong desire to explore re-energizing the “vast prairie of time between tenure and retirement” with other mid-career faculty members and is facilitating a five-session, Mid-Career Faculty Group on five Wednesdays this Semester.IDS Newsletter Spring 2012
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Our Promise
We promise all of our clients that we will:
- Provide services to all faculty and TAs regardless of rank or appointment;
- Treat clients fairly, respecting their uniqueness and their ability to set objectives and make decisions;
- Protect all privileged information, obtaining informed consent from clients before using or referring publicly to client cases in such a way that the client could be identified;
- Assist faculty when we can provide useful assistance and suggest other resources to meet needs we cannot address.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or requests, please drop in, e-mail, or call one of our staff.
LeAne Rutherford, Associate Professor, Instructional Consultant, Newsletter Editor 218-726-6207 lrutherf@d.umn.edu |
Shelley L. Smith, Associate Professor, Instructional Consultant, Web Editor 218-726-7715 ssmith3@d.umn.edu |
Fizz Forsey, Graduate Intern |
**Dean: Paul N. Deputy, CEHSP, Principal Administrator of Record
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