2015 TA Training/Orientation: Teaching & Learning Workshop
For all new TAs and graduate students interested in teaching
Friday, August 21, 2015 · 8:30 AM - 2 PM
On Campus : SHER 003
All new Teaching Assistants, and all graduate students who are interested in teaching (during or after graduate school) should plan to attend this orientation session. This session is part of the annual PROF-it (Professors-in-Training) suite of activities offered to graduate students.
Breakfast and Lunch will be served.
Topics include:
- $2000 "Professors in Training" (PROF-it) Opportunities at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) - UMBC/CCBC Teaching Fellows Program
- Teaching Undergraduates Through the "Introduction to an Honors University (IHU)" Program
- "Teaching Disciplinary Thinking"
- Instructional Technologies (Including Blackboard, Bb screencasting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.)
- Conflict Resolution: What Every TA Needs to Know
- Assisting Students with Disabilities
- Counseling Center
- Panels of experienced TAs and instructors in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines, and for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.
- Lunch Success Seminar on Life/Work Balance (Robert Deluty, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Associate Professor of English, Poet, and Author). Register for this event using the following link: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/32569
AGENDA
--------------
8:30 AM : Registration and breakfast outside of SHER 003
Program elements (above) - SHER 003
9:00 AM : Instructional Technologies - Blackboard Online Technology for Teaching - Includes Bb screen casting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.
Dr. Thomas Penniston, Specialist, Instructional Technology, Division of Information Technology
9:30 AM: PROF-it Teaching Opportunities
- Teaching opportunities that exist with UMBC's first year programs (Jill Randles, Assistant Vice President and Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Education)
- Opportunities for enhanced training with Skillsoft (Jill Wardell, Manager, Workplace Learning & Wellness)
- CCBC (Dr. Renetta Tull)
- "The Heart of Engagement"; Conference information (Katherine Im, President, Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Faculty Professional Development, Program Chair, Gerontology and Social Sciences, Collegiate Associate Professor).
Dr. Linda Hodges, Director of the Faculty Development Center
11:00 AM: Conflict Resolution
Stephanie Lazarus, Human Relations Manager, invited
11:15 AM: Assisting Students with Disabilities
Cassie Kilroy Thompson, Communications Specialist, Student Support Services
11:30 AM: Counseling Center
Dr. Susan Han, Psychologist, Counseling Center
11:45 AM: "Top TAs" Give Advice in Discipline-specific sessions
- The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee (Dan Miller)
- Breakout Sessions (Discussions include: Leading a lab, grading, teaching class, time management, and more)
a) TAs in CNMS and COEIT (SHER 003)
1. Dan Miller (Physics/Moderator)
2. Saman Nezami (Mechanical Engineering)
3. Erin Buehler (Human-Centered Computing Program)
4. Anthony Bratt (Physics)
5. Hector Medina (Mechanical Engineering)
6. Kirsten Richards (Information Systems)
7. Fernando A. Calderon (Physics)
8. Lucas Horn (Biological Sciences)
9. Karan Odom (Biological Sciences)
10. Yatish Kumar Joshi (Computer Engineering)
b) TAs in CAHSS (SHER 006)
1. Cassandra Simons (Applied Developmental Psychology)
2. Laura DeWyngaert (Psychology Department)
3. Steven Andres-Aquino (Sociology and Anthropology)
1:00 PM Life/Work Balance Lunch Seminar with Dr. Deluty
(The lunch seminar has a separate RSVP http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/32569)
