University Teaching Seminar

The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers programming every August for new ISU teachers. This year’s University Teaching Seminar on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 will invite new faculty and new teaching assistants to attend separate morning programming and joint afternoon programming. The 2013 University Teaching Seminar will take place at the Iowa State Memorial Union.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Morning Sessions

• All new teaching faculty (tenured, tenure-eligible, lecturers, clinicians, and instructors) will meet for a morning dedicated to workshops and presentations on the topics of active learning, teaching with technology, and learning styles.
• New teaching assistants will convene in the morning for sessions specific to their teaching role.

Afternoon Sessions

• All new teaching faculty and teaching assistants will meet for an afternoon of engaging workshops focusing on topics such as effective grading, classroom management, and preparing for the first day of class.

Going Paperless to support Live Green!

To shrink our paper trail the UTS schedule, and resources will be available online by August 1. We ask that you choose to view the resources through a digital mobile device, or print out the information that would be helpful for your experience. To be fully committed to and engaged in making our campus, its operations, and initiatives as "green" as possible we encourage everyone's participation in the Live Green! campus-wide sustainability initiative.

New Faculty Orientation

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

New tenured and tenure-eligible faculty (assistant, associate, or full professors, hired since September 2012) also attend an orientation specifically designed for them.

The New Faculty Orientation gives new tenure-eligible faculty the opportunity to meet with one another as well as with senior administrators at Iowa State. This day will include presentations by ISU student leadership as well as by other faculty on their experiences with teaching, research, and service. In addition to roundtable presentations on the Ames community, flexible faculty policies, and research funding, Senior Vice President and Provost Wikert will share his insight on what it means to be part of a land grant university. This day also provides new faculty with the opportunity to network and to begin thinking of possible collaborations with peers.

New Faculty Orientation will be held at Reiman Gardens.

If you have any questions or problems, or if you anticipate requiring any accommodations, please contact:

• For University Teaching Seminar (Tues., August 20, 2013): Jane Henning at 515-294-2906 or njhenni@iastate.edu
• For New Faculty Orientation (Wed., August 21, 2013): Julie Tarbox at 515-294-6410 or jtarbox@iastate.edu