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<Title>August 26, 2016: Teaching Assistant (TA) Training/Orientation &#8211; Teaching and Learning Workshop</Title>
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    <p><span>All new Teaching Assistants, </span><strong><em><u>and</u>  </em></strong>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.</p>
    <p>Breakfast and Lunch will be served.</p>
    <a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/august-26-2016-teaching-assistant-ta-trainingorientation-teaching-and-learning-workshop/#gallery-4943-3-slideshow" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Click to view slideshow.</a>
    
    <h4><span>EVENT DETAILS:</span></h4>
    <p>Date: August 26, 2016</p>
    <p>Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM</p>
    <p>Location: UMBC Campus, Public Policy 105</p>
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    <h4><span><strong>REGISTRATION: </strong></span></h4>
    <p>UMBC Members: Please RSVP at <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/40169" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/40169</a></p>
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    <p>non-UMBC Members: Please RSVP by writing in the comments section below of your interest to attend the seminar</p>
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    <h4><span>Seminar Topics include:</span></h4>
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    <li><strong> $2000 “Professors in Training” (PROF-it) Opportunities at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) – UMBC/CCBC Teaching Fellows Program</strong></li>
    <li><strong>Teaching Undergraduates Through the “Introduction to an Honors University (IHU)” Program</strong></li>
    <li><strong>“Teaching Disciplinary Thinking” </strong></li>
    <li><span><strong>Instructional Technologies </strong>(Including Blackboard, Bb screencasting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.)  </span></li>
    <li><strong>Conflict Resolution</strong><span>: What Every TA Needs to Know</span></li>
    <li><span><strong>Assisting Students with Disabilities</strong></span></li>
    <li><span><strong>Counseling Center</strong></span></li>
    <li><strong>Panels of experienced TAs and instructors </strong><span>in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines, and for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.</span></li>
    <li><strong>Lunch Success Seminar on Life/Work Balance</strong><span> (<em>Robert Deluty</em>, 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: <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/24706" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/24706</a></span></li>
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    <h4><span>AGENDA</span></h4>
    
    <div><strong>8:30 AM : Registration and breakfast outside of PUP 105</strong></div>
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    <div>Program elements (above) – PUP 105</div>
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    <p><strong>9:00 AM : Instructional Technologies – Blackboard Online Technology for Teaching – Includes Bb screen casting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.</strong></p>
    <p>Dr. Thomas Penniston, Specialist, Instructional Technology, Division of Information Technology</p>
    <p><strong>9:30 AM: PROF-it Teaching Opportunities</strong></p>
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    <li>Teaching opportunities that exist with UMBC’s first year programs (Jill Randles, Assistant Vice President and Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Education)</li>
    <li>Opportunities for enhanced training with Skillsoft (Jill Wardell, Manager, Workplace Learning &amp; Wellness)</li>
    <li><span>CCBC (Dr. Renetta Tull)</span></li>
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    <p><strong>10:00 AM ” Teaching Disciplinary Thinking” </strong>Dr. Linda Hodges, Director of the Faculty Development Center</p>
    <p><strong>11:00 AM: Conflict Resolution</strong></p>
    <p>Stephanie Lazarus, Human Relations Manager</p>
    <p><strong>11:15 AM: Assisting Students with Disabilities</strong></p>
    <p>Tawny McManus, Director, Office of Student Disability Services</p>
    <p><strong>11:30 AM: Counseling Center</strong></p>
    <p>Dr. Susan Han, Psychologist, Counseling Center</p>
    <p><strong>11:45 AM: “Top TAs” Give Advice in Discipline-specific sessions</strong></p>
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    <li>The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee (Dan Miller)</li>
    <li><em>Breakout Sessions </em>(Discussions include: Leading a lab, grading, teaching class, time management, and more)</li>
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    <div><strong>a) TAs in CNMS and COEIT (PUP 105) </strong></div>
    <div><strong>   </strong><span> <em>Moderator: Dan Miller </em></span></div>
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    <div><strong>b) TAs in CAHSS (PUP 206)</strong></div>
    <div><strong>    </strong> <em>Moderator: Deanna Cerquetti </em></div>
    
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    <div><strong>1:00 PM Life/Work Balance Lunch Seminar with Dr. Deluty</strong></div>
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    <div>(The lunch seminar has a separate RSVP <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/40170" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/40170</a>)</div>
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