Hello Everyone-
The Faculty Center is open all this week during business hours, so please feel free to stop by or call to discuss spring course plans. The Faculty Writing Club will meet on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 10 to noon as usual this week. If you thought about signing up for the spring Course Innovation Project that focuses on making your courses accessible for all students but just didn’t get around to it, click here to submit your application: https://ucfcos.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2a7rAIbldEtRAjj . The deadline has been extended to this Wednesday. We’ve also extended the deadline for the Writing Your STEM Article faculty development cohort to Wednesday, so check out that flyer and click here if you’d like to apply: http://ucf.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bavE5EuKUnci13n. Please also note the excellent opportunity from the Office of Undergraduate Research below.
Have a great break!
Melody
FROM THE OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: INVITATION TO FACULTY
The Office of Undergraduate Research will be sending a team to the Council on Undergraduate Research: Integrating Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Institute. This will be held at Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL on March 28-30. More information about this institute is available at: http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/institutes/integrating_undergraduate_research_into_the_curriculum/
OUR will fund the (1) institute, (2) group carpool mileage, and (3) two night hotel accommodation for selected faculty.
If you are interested in attending please send me an interest email to Kim Schneider (KRS@ucf.edu) by January 10 with the following:
Cynthia Hutchinson
College of Education
I am a follower of Leo Buscaglia who prefers the term
"educator" to "teacher." He explains that
"educator" comes from the Latin term, "educare," which
means to tend or support the growth of another. That is the role I hope to play
in the lives of my students.
I am careful to follow A. Bronson Alcott's ...
Arup Guha
College of Computer Science and Engineering
The ultimate goal of any educator should be to enable his students to achieve their potential. I attempt to attain this goal through five major techniques: providing a friendly classroom atmosphere, giving challenging assignments, adapting my courses, collecting data to identify the techniques that are most effect...
Peter Larson
College of Arts & Humanities
My foundation derives from the liberal arts tradition: knowledge of a specific subject provides the greatest benefit when part of a well-rounded educational experience. Regarding History in general, my emphasis is on learning to think historically: going beyond a simple “what happened?” to question cau...