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!!
Have a great Summer!
IDS will be open for consultatins until June 8th
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
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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