IDS programs include the presentation of campus-wide workshops, a series of workshop on teaching and learning specifically designed for Early Career Faculty, the on-going Tech Talk discussions of teaching-relevant technology, and the new Learning it Forward a faculty learning community that explores integration of sustainability into courses, and MidCareer Program that explores the challenges and opportunities of the time between tenure and retirement.
Workshops
Typically IDS offers between 5-7 workshops per semester. The workshops are attended by faculty, teaching assistants, staff, and administrators, depending upon their areas of interest. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming IDS workshops and seminars. You will learn, enjoy, and network with colleagues from across campus!
Many of our Presentations are initiated by request. If you would like to offer an idea for a workshop and or your talents as presenter or facilitator please contact LeAne Rutherford at lrutherf@d.umn.edu or (218) 726-6207, Shelley Smith at ssmith3@d.umn.edu or (218) 726-7715, or Jason Ellis at jellis2@d.umn.edu or (218) 726-6214.
Fall 2012 - Tentative Workshop Schedule
Workshop Title |
Presenter(s) |
Date and Time |
Location |
| #1: Giving Your Students Voice: Encouraging Participation | IDS | 9/26/12 10-11:30 am |
KSC 268 |
| #2: Memes to an End:Cathartic Captioning in the Classroom | IDS | 10/22/12 12-1:00 pm |
KSC 268 |
| #3: Thinking Developmentally: Helping Students Blossom & Bloom | IDS | 11/5/12 2-3:30 pm |
KSC 268 |
| #4: Adventure in Learning | TBC | 11/28/121 12-1 pm |
KSC 268 |
Early Career Faculty Series on Teaching and Learning
This workshop series is designed to help faculty, adjuncts, and TAs who are the "instructors of record" for their courses become more confident and reflective teachers by expanding their knowledge and skills regarding teaching and learning. The facilitators will model a variety of active learning strategies and we will be discussing and reflecting upon educational theory and practice. By combining action and analysis, participants have a chance to explore and develop teaching skills that promote learning within a diverse student body across a variety of settings. Throughout this process, we will discuss the ways in which teaching choices grow out of beliefs and experiences (culturally and individually held) and how those choices influence students' learning.
Early Career Faculty Series Schedule, Fall 2012
Workshop |
Date and Time |
Location |
Early Career #1 : Starting Out on the Right Foot |
Thursday, 10/4/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #2 : Managing Classroom Dynamics |
Thursday 10/18/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #3 : Backward Course Design: Using Goals to Guide Curriculum |
Thursday, 11/1/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #4 : Student Assessment |
Thursday, 11/15/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #5 : Using Active Learning Strategies |
Thursday, 11/29/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #6 : Teaching Assessment & Evaluation |
Thursday 12/6/12 |
KSC 268 |
Early Career #7 : Finding Balance and Wrap-Up |
Thursday 12/13/12 |
KSC 268 |
Tech Talk Plus (incollaboration with ITSS)
Tech Talk Plusis a fine way to keep in touch with what is happening in the interface between teaching, learning, and technology. These meetings are a place to exchange ideas, gain inspiration, view demonstrations, evaluate effectiveness, mull things over, and ask all the questions you have regarding learning vis a vis technology, both in and out of the classroom.
- How can you use YouTube for motivation?
- What new technological options are available here at UMD?
- iPads, laptops, iPhones, ….From a rich stew of devices, which will you select for optimal learning in your classes?
- What direction is online education taking at UMD?
- Where is that “cloud?”
- Are social media changing how students relate to others?
- Does technology:
o Let you do more in less time?
o Increase your work load?
o Help you communicate with others faster, better, and clearer?
o Transform what you do and how you do it? - What does the literature say?
Tech Talk Schedule, Fall 2012
|
Dates |
Time |
Location |
Tech Talk #1 |
Th 9/20/12 |
12:00-1:00 pm |
KSC 333 |
Tech Talk #2 |
F 10/19/12 |
12:00-1:00 pm |
KSC 333 |
Tech Talk #3 |
Th 11/9/12 |
12:00-1:00 pm |
KSC 333 |
Tech Talk #4 |
F 12/20/12 |
12:00-1:00 pm |
KSC 333 |
Learning it Forward
This "Sustainable Community of Scholars" is designed to help faculty successfully embed issues of sustainability into their coursework. The group will have continued conversations about "creating a Curriculum of consequence."
Learning It Forward Schedule, Fall 2012
Session |
Date |
Time |
Location |
| LIF #1 | T 9/11/12 | 12-1:30 pm | Griggs |
| LIF #2: | T 10/2/12 | 12-1:30 pm | Griggs |
| LIF #3: | T 10/30/12 | 12-1:30 pm | Griggs |
| LIF #4: | T 11/20/12 | 12-1:30 pm | Griggs |
| LIF #5: | T 12/4/12 | 12-1:30 pm | Griggs |
Mid Career Program
This faculty learning community explores how we can re-energizing the “vast prairie of time between tenure and retirement.”
MidCareer Program, Fall 2012
Session |
Date |
Time |
Location |
| MC #1 | W 9/12/12 | 1:30-3:00 pm | KSC 333 |
| MC #2: | W 10/10/12 | 1:30-3:00 pm | KSC 333 |
| MC #3: | W 10/24/12 | 1:30-3:00 pm | KSC 333 |
| MC #4: | W 11/14/12 | 1:30-3:00 pm | KSC 333 |
| MC #5: | W 12/12/12 | 1:30-3:00 pm | KSC 333 |
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