TA Training/Orientation: Teaching and Learning Workshop
Friday, August 26, 2016 · 9 AM - 1 PM
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE GO TO: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/40169
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
- The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Leadership (CIRTL) - UMBC's Role in the national center, and available resources
- "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/40170
AGENDA
8:30 AM: Registration and breakfast outside of PUP 105
Program elements (above) - PUP 105
9:00 AM: Instructional Technologies - Blackboard Online Technology for Teaching - Includes Bb screen casting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.
Mariann Hawken, 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, AACC, Ana G. Mendez University (Dr. Renetta Tull); Center for the Integration of Teaching and Learning - CIRTL (Dr. Renetta Tull & Dr. Anne Spence)
Dr. Linda Hodges, Director of the Faculty Development Center
11:00 AM: Conflict Resolution
Stephanie Lazarus, Human Relations Manager
11:15 AM: Assisting Students with Disabilities
Tawny McManus, Director, Office of Student Disability Services
11:30 AM: Counseling Center
Dr. Kristin Sagun, Assistant Director, Counseling Center
11:45 AM: "Top TAs" Give Advice in Discipline-specific sessions
- The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee (Deanna Cerquetti, Dan Miller)
- Breakout Sessions (Discussions include: Leading a lab, grading, teaching class, time management, and more)
a) TAs in COEIT (PUP 105)
Moderator: Onimi Jamedi, Information Systems
1. Yangling Zhou, Mechanical Engineering
2. Kourosh Mahmoud Kalayeh, Mechanical Engineering
b) TAs in CAHSS (PUP 208)
Moderator: Deanna Cerquetti, Spanish
1. Cassandra Simons, Psychology
2. Rebecca Dowling, Psychology
3. Zachary Barnetzke, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
c) TAs in CNMS (PUP 206)
Moderator: Dan Miller, Physics
1. Ling Cao, Biology
2. Jaron Kropp, Physics
3. Chia-Hua Lue, Biology
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/40170)
