G-RISE Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program
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TA Training/Orientation: Teaching and Learning Workshop

New TA? Or interested in being a TA or in teaching?

Friday, August 26, 2016 · 9 AM - 1 PM
Public Policy : 105
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
  • 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)
10:00 AM " Teaching Disciplinary Thinking" 

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

  1. The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee (Deanna Cerquetti, Dan Miller)
  2. Breakout Sessions (Discussions include: Leading a lab, grading, teaching class, time management, and more)
a) TAs in COEIT (PUP 105) 
    Moderator:  Omini 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)