Tuesday, 04 Mar 2014
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Using Discussion in your Classroom: Challenging Students to Think Critically
Award-winning history professor Jana Byars shares how she intentionally fosters critical group discussion in her classroom. Students are engaged with theory from greats like Foucault and Derrida, yet feel safe participating in these challenging discussions, write every day, and still rave about her class in evaluations. Learn her secrets and engage students in critical thinking in your classroom.
Workshop for early career faculty: Mentoring graduate students
Graduate College associate dean William Graves and others will share their best advice on recruiting and mentoring graduate students.
Monday, 10 Mar 2014
Workshop for early career faculty: Mentoring graduate students
Graduate College associate dean William Graves and others will share their best advice on recruiting and mentoring graduate students.
Tuesday, 11 Mar 2014
Workshop: University policies for lecturers, clinicians and adjunct faculty
This session will be led by associate provost Dawn Bratsch-Prince and Holly Bender, associate director of CELT.
Service-Learning Faculty/Staff/Graduate Student Learning Community
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014
SP@ISU Brown Bag Lunch: Data Management Planning
Megan O'Donnell, scholarly communications librarian; and Bonnie Bowen, co-PI, SP@ISU, will talk about expectations of funding agencies, best practices for data management, and tools for preparing a data management plan for a grant proposal.
Friday, 14 Mar 2014
Workshop: EndNote Basic
Due to poor weather conditions, the library is offering an additional research workshop that introduces EndNote Basic, a free bibliographic management program that helps you collect, organize, format and use collected citations in writing projects. Faculty, staff and students are welcome. Pre-registration (see link above) is required.
Wednesday, 19 Mar 2014
Teleworkshop: How to overcome shame, impostor feelings and become a prolific scholar
Do you feel you're not "enough" or "don't belong" in the academy? Do you feel debilitated and cannot write (for days or months) after negative feedback or rejection, or due to the above feelings?
Monday, 24 Mar 2014
Employee wellness: Blood pressure, body comp screenings
ISU kinesiology students are conducting free blood pressure and body composition screenings. Participants have a chance to win one of four $50 HyVee gift cards.
Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014
Employee wellness: Blood pressure, body comp screenings
ISU kinesiology students are conducting free blood pressure and body composition screenings. Participants have a chance to win one of four $50 HyVee gift cards.
SP@ISU Brown Bag Lunch: Your Broader Impacts Questions Answered
Diane Rover, director of SP@ISU; and Megan Heitmann, assistant director of SP@ISU; will talk about resources available to researchers when developing and writing BI sections in their proposals. Participants can submit questions they would like to have discussed during this session.
Wednesday, 26 Mar 2014
Employee wellness: Blood pressure, body comp screenings
ISU kinesiology students are conducting free blood pressure and body composition screenings. Participants have a chance to win one of four $50 HyVee gift cards.
Tele-workshop: How to develop a daily writing practice
Are you tired of your deadline-driven, binge-and-bust writing routine? Do you wish you could develop a healthy, consistent, daily writing routine that would allow you to meet your department's expectations for tenure and promotion?
Thursday, 27 Mar 2014
Faculty panel discussion: Balancing work and private life
This discussion is designed for new faculty but open to all faculty.
Workshop: Capture a Lecture and/or "Flip" a Class with Panopto
Panopto offers a rich set of features for both faculty and students that allows classroom recordings and gives instructors the ability to create rich media resources right from their desks. You may use Pantopo to "flip" your classes so that passive learning (listening to lectures) is done online and active learning (solving problems) is done in class.
Friday, 28 Mar 2014
Workshop: University policies for lecturers, clinicians and adjunct faculty
This session will be led by associate provost Dawn Bratsch-Prince and Holly Bender, associate director of CELT.
Managing Change in a Changing Workplace
This program is designed to explain the evolution and importance of change management. Participants will be given tips on how to handle change, as well as adjust their attitudes toward the inevitable twists and turns of daily life. The concept of resiliency is also explored. Ideally, participants will learn to welcome, rather than resist, the power of change. Registration is free (AccessPlus).
Monday, 31 Mar 2014
Faculty panel discussion: Balancing work and private life
This discussion is designed with new faculty in mind but open to all faculty.
CELT Morrill Professor Panel and Teaching Poster Symposium
Beginning at 4:00 p.m., a panel session, featuring Morrill Professors Gail Nonnecke and Leo Timms, will share their perspectives on the importance of effective teaching in higher education. The symposium will feature efforts of the CELT Teaching Partners Program which pairs junior faculty with senior faculty mentors, as well as showcasing examples of teaching techniques, teaching strategies and the scholarship of teaching and learning.