For Graduate Teaching Assistants
Fall TA Rap Session - I
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to its rap sessions for graduate teaching assistants. You'll meet graduate students and over dinner talk about what's going on in your classes, what works well in your teaching, and what could go better. Senior TAs facilitate each session. Chits for dinner, redeemable at the Perkins Food Court before the meeting, will be provided until 5:15 p.m. We will meet under the smiley face balloon in the seating area at Perkins at 5:00 p.m.
Be sure to pre-register before the session.

Questions please contact: Nick Galasso – Department of Political Science and International Relations, CTE Graduate Assistant.

UD Online Faculty Appreciation Reception

• Faculty recognition awards ceremony
• Faculty showcase - Demonstration of latest education technology
• Refreshments

Sponsored by UD Online distance learning
To RSVP, call (302)831-0729 or contact: eileens@udel.edu

HETC program application and Fall semester registration starts - please submit materials by August 25.
Program application form (PDF)
Seminar registration form (PDF)
Questions

Annual Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants - Conference Agenda
The conference is designed primarily for those graduate students who have been newly appointed as TAs for the 2008-09 academic year. All first time TAs must attend.  The conference helps orient TAs to their instructional roles and responsibilities at Delaware and introduces them to best practices and central aspects of learning and teaching.
Questions, please call CTE at (302) 831-2027.
UDaily article, August 8

to register online by August 15, 2008 (registration closed)
print registration form (pdf)
Sponsors: Office of Graduate & Professional Education , Graduate Student Senate , and CTE

August 28
2:00 - 5:00p.m.
Courtyard Newark - University of Delaware, Salons B/C

Introductory Session on Teaching at UD
Session designed to support faculty new to Delaware .
In small groups you get to know faculty from other disciplines, share instructional practices and keys to successful teaching at Delaware, and have a sounding board for ideas and questions. 

to register by August 22 (registration closed)

June 11-13
208 Gore Hall

Problem-Based Learning: From Ideas to Solutions through Communication
You are invited to participate in a three-day introductory ITUE session. This workshop will demonstrate problem-based learning (PBL) and model ways that PBL can be used effectively in all disciplines, in upper and lower division courses, and in all size classes. One focus of this program will be writing effective problem-based materials; participants will leave the session with new or revised problems for use in their couses. Another focus will be engaging students in research and communication as part of the process of PBL.
For additional information, please refer to Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education. If you are interested in participating in this session, please register early so that we may reserve seats accordingly. (The number of participants will be limited to about 60.) The registration fee is $595 for off-campus participants.  The fee is reduced to $495 for payment and registration received in advance of May 28.  Note: there is NO registration fee required for UD faculty and staff members.

May 12
5:00pm
Perkins Student Center, Food Court

Spring TA Rap Session - IV
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to its rap sessions for undergraduate teaching assistants. You'll meet graduate students and over dinner talk about what's going on in your classes, what works well in your teaching, and what could go better. Senior teaching assistants facilitate each session. Chits for dinner, redeemable at the Perkins Food Court before the meeting, will be provided until 5:15 p.m. We will meet under the smiley face balloon in the seating area at Perkins at 5:00 p.m. Be sure to pre-register before the session.

Questions please contact: Hasan Yonten– Department of Political Science and International Relations, CTE Graduate Assistant.

April 21
5:00pm
Perkins Student Center, Food Court

Spring TA Rap Session - III
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to its rap sessions for undergraduate teaching assistants. You'll meet graduate students and over dinner talk about what's going on in your classes, what works well in your teaching, and what could go better. Senior teaching assistants facilitate each session. Chits for dinner, redeemable at the Perkins Food Court before the meeting, will be provided until 5:15 p.m. We will meet under the smiley face balloon in the seating area at Perkins at 5:00 p.m.
Be sure to pre-register before the session.

Questions please contact: Hasan Yonten– Department of Political Science and International Relations, CTE Graduate Assistant.

April 16-18
Clayton Hall Conference Center

Lilly-East Conference on College and University Teaching
Learning by Design

Pre-conference session offered on April 16, afternoon.
Lilly Conferences bring together faculty across disciplines and types of academic institutions. Participants learn from best practice, engage in dialogue, and return to their campuses to share what they have learned. The 2008 Lilly Conferences will highlight how to design, facilitate, and assess learning environments that support and enhance student learning: Learning by Design. We invite you to join your colleagues in sharing your teaching enhancements and innovations, your knowledge about effective ways to engage our diverse students and assess their academic progress.

Past Lilly-East Conferences
Information: Gabriele Bauer, CTE
Information about Lilly Conferences

Know an exceptional UD instructor, advisor, or mentor?
If yes--if you know of a really excellent UD faculty instructor, graduate student instructor, or undergraduate advisor/mentor, you can nominate this individual for a special honor.
More information

March 7
2:30-4:30pm
Bank of America Career Services Center,
Conference Room

March 19
2:00-4:30pm
Part 1 - Faculty Panel Discussion 2:00-3:15pm
Part 2 - Roundtable Session
3:30-4:30pm
The Gallery, Perkins Student Center

Promotion and Tenure at Delaware: A Workshop Open to All Faculty
A faculty panel will address critical issues pertaining to promotion to Associate Professor: Preparing for the promotion process; putting the dossier together and the role of external reviewers; addressing promotion and tenure policies and procedures most effectively.  The panel will be followed by roundtable discussions focusing on: Navigating the internal P&T process; navigating the external P&T process; compiling the teaching portion of the dossier; working around perceived challenges; and advice and resources for promotion to full professor.
Participants will receive a complementary copy of Bob Diamond's (2004) bestseller, Preparing for promotion, tenure, and annual review, A faculty guide for their reference.
Panelists: Havidan Rodriguez, Vice Provost, Academic & International Programs; Eric Kmiec, Chairperson, University Promotions & Tenure Committee, Professor, Biological Sciences; Stephen Bernhardt, Chairperson, English; Anette Karlsson, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Raul Lobo, Professor, Chemical Engineering; Charles Swanik, Associate Professor, Health, Nutrition, & Exercise Sciences
Moderator: Pamela Cook-Ioannidis, Chairperson, Commission on the Status of Women and Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Handbook: Promotion and Tenure
Sponsors: Commission on the Status of Women , Office of the Provost , and CTE
Please register online by March 14, or call 831-2027 - Please select the date with the appropriate part of the session you'd like to attend.

The World as Classroom: Developing a Study Abroad Proposal
Thinking about developing a new winter or summer session study abroad program? Then please join us for an introductory "how-to" session. You will hear a panel of experienced study abroad directors share ideas on topics such as program site selection, academic considerations, itinerary planning, recruitment of specific student groups, and characteristics of a successful director. Staff from the Center for International Studies will guide the discussion, present the proposal process, and provide feedback on your ideas for new programs. Lisa Chieffo will be the facilitator.
By Tuesday, March 18, please register by sending an email, or call 831-2852.
Sponsored by the Center for International Studies, and the Center for Teaching Effectiveness.

March 24
5:00pm
Perkins Student Center, Food Court

Spring TA Rap Session - II
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to its rap sessions for undergraduate teaching assistants. You'll meet graduate students and over dinner talk about what's going on in your classes, what works well in your teaching, and what could go better. Senior teaching assistants facilitate each session. Chits for dinner, redeemable at the Perkins Food Court before the meeting, will be provided until 5:15 p.m. We will meet under the smiley face balloon in the seating area at Perkins at 5:00 p.m.
Be sure to pre-register before the session.

Questions please contact: Hasan Yonten– Department of Political Science and International Relations, CTE Graduate Assistant.

February 7
9:00am-Noon
Room 208, Gore Hall
The session will be followed by lunch. Preregistration by February 4 is required.

For Graduate Teaching Assistants 
De-Mystifying the TA Experience: A Discussion-Oriented Session for First-Time Graduate Teaching Assistants 
Gabriele Bauer, CTE
This session is intended as a discussion forum for graduate students who are TAing for the first time in the spring semester. We will address such instructional issues as the first days of class, maintaining student interest, engaging students, preventing cheating and working effectively with the faculty. 
Sponsors: CTE and Graduate Studies
to register

February 25
5:00pm
Perkins Food Court

Spring TA Rap Session - I
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to its rap sessions for undergraduate teaching assistants. You'll meet graduate students and over dinner talk about what's going on in your classes, what works well in your teaching, and what could go better. Senior teaching assistants facilitate each session. Chits for dinner, redeemable at the Perkins Food Court before the meeting, will be provided until 5:15 p.m. We will meet under the smiley face balloon in the seating area at Perkins at 5:00 p.m.
Be sure to pre-register before each session.

Questions please contact: Hasan Yonten – Department of Political Science and International Relations, CTE Graduate Assistant.

Library workshops and orientations
The University of Delaware Library is offering a series of workshops and orientations designed to help UD faculty and students discover better ways to fund and organize their research and learn more about UD's Student Multimedia Design Center.

January 9
Clayton Hall Conference Center

Training in Research Administration
Research and Graduate Studies will offer a six-part training session on topics of interest to the UD research community.

Lilly-East Conference on College and University Teaching - Learning by Design
April 16-18, 2008, Clayton Hall Conference Center, University of Delaware
Call for proposals - deadline: Monday, December 10, 2007.

Lilly Conferences bring together faculty across disciplines and types of academic institutions. Participants learn from best practice, engage in dialogue, and return to their campuses to share what they have learned. The 2008 Lilly Conferences will highlight how to design, facilitate, and assess learning environments that support and enhance student learning: Learning by Design. We invite you to join your colleagues in sharing your teaching enhancements and innovations, your knowledge about effective ways to engage our diverse students and assess their academic progress.

Past Lilly-East Conferences
Information: Gabriele Bauer, CTE
Information about Lilly Conferences

“Entrepreneurial Prospects in Higher Education”
David Breneman, professor of economics and director, Program in Public Policy in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

The forum, which is free and open to the University community, will focus on the prospects for the entrepreneurial sector of higher education and the implications for traditional institutions and their faculties.
Sponsors: Office of the Provost and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
to register: send e-mail by Friday, Oct. 19. A complimentary lunch will be served.

The World as a Classroom: Developing a Study Abroad Program Proposal
Facilitator: Lisa Chieffo, Center for International Studies
Thinking about developing a new winter or summer session study abroad program? Then please join us for an introductory "how-to"session. You'll hear a panel of experienced study abroad program directors share ideas on topics such as: program site selection, academic cons9iderations, itinerary planning, recruitment of specific stud net groups, characteristics of successful directors.
Register by Tuesday, September 25: Lisa Chieffo or call 831-2852.
Sponsors: Center for International Studies and CTE