Charting Your Path to Success August 22, 2018

Early Career Faculty Forum Series Welcome! Early Career Faculty Forum Series Meets every other Wednesday from 4 – 5PM All pre-tenure/pre-promotion faculty invited! https://www.askideas.com/keep-calm-its-already-wednesday/

CAFE Objectives CAFE aims to: Enable and support faculty excellence at all stages of career Maintain balance among the teaching, research, and service missions of Missouri S&T Establish and sustain CAFE as the foremost faculty development unit on campus

Early Career Faculty Forum Objectives Early career faculty who regularly attend the forums will be able to: Develop usable products at sessions that can be applied to promote student and faculty success Navigate the Missouri S&T culture and available resources, and network with colleagues Refine skills for teaching and learning Assemble an effective promotion and tenure dossier

What’s Different This Year Success Binder: to help track individual progress in teaching, research and service to aid the promotion and tenure process. Bring your binder to every forum Parallel Research and Teaching Tracks – you choose Meeting in various locations – check the calendar

Fall Schedule Date & Time Location Topic Aug 22, 4 - 5PM Havener – Carver Turner Charting Your Path to Success Sept 5, 4-5:30PM Havener – St. Pat’s Ballroom A Getting Started with Teaching Sept 19, 4 -5PM Library 103 CLC Undergraduate Advising 101 Oct 3, 4-5PM Havener – Carver & Turner Finding Funding Opportunities (R) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (T) Oct 17, 4-6PM Rolla Public House Brewing Happy Hour with the Master Mentors Oct 31, 4-5PM Pre-Award Activities (research) Teaching Track: TBD Nov 14, 4-5PM Havener – Turner Managing Classroom Challenges Nov 28, 4-5PM Travel Grant and Mini-Sabbatical Presentations Dec 12, 4-5PM Havener-Missouri Role of Research Centers (R) Funding for Innovative Teaching (T)

Charting Your Path to Success Week 1: August 22 Charting Your Path to Success Get to know new faculty colleagues (introductions) Provide overview of forum topics for the year Identify questions and areas of interest to address in future forums Source: http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/path.jpg

Getting Started with Teaching Week 2: September 5th Getting Started with Teaching Explore what it means to prepare, communicate, and show you care as a teacher Discuss 7 questions on CET evaluations Talk about what to do if you find a student cheating Source: https://it.wisc.edu/news/2-ways-rethink-teaching-fall/

Undergraduate Advising 101 Week 3: September 19th Undergraduate Advising 101 Overview many faces of advising Discuss basics of undergraduate advising: what do to and say Hands on tutorial about how to use the S&T advising software Source: missourisandt.photoshelter.com

Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding Week 4: October 3 Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding Discuss strategies for identifying research sponsors Discuss strategies for finding funding opportunities Week 4: October 3 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Discuss purpose and value of SoTL Learn about the support for conducting SoTL at S&T

Happy Hour with the Master Mentors Week 5: October 17th Happy Hour with the Master Mentors Get to know the Master Mentors and new faculty colleagues in an informal setting--Rolla Public House Brewing Company Source: https://twitter.com/publichousebeer

Pre-Award Activities (Research) Week 6: October 31 Pre-Award Activities (Research) Discuss how to get a proposal out the door Learn PeopleSoft Week 6: October 31 Teaching Track - TBD

Managing Classroom Challenges Week 7: November 17 Managing Classroom Challenges Discuss solutions to case studies of classroom challenges Identify where to go with different classroom challenges How do you help students who need help you haven’t been trained to give? source: missourisandt.photoshelter.com

Mini-Sabbatical & Travel Grant Presentations Week 8: November 28 Mini-Sabbatical & Travel Grant Presentations Learn about the funding opportunities for travel for early career faculty Hear from early career colleagues about different ways they have applied the fund

The Role of Research Centers Week 9: December 12 The Role of Research Centers Prepare an elevator speech to share with a research center, and they will provide friendly feedback Week 9: December 12 Funding for Innovative Teaching Develop a research question related to teaching or student learning Learn about funding opportunities for innovative teaching: eFellows, educational research mini-grants, KEEN workshops

Spring Schedule Date & Time Location Topic Jan 30, 4-5PM Meramec Gasconade Goal Setting, Honors & Awards Feb 13, 4-5PM Publications and Scholarly Works (R) Teaching Track: TBD Feb 28, 4-5PM 204 Library How Do Students Learn? (Thursday) Mar 15, 8-4PM Havener – Carver Turner Proposal Writing Bootcamp Mar 20, 6-8PM Matt’s Steakhouse History of Missouri S&T Dinner with spouses Apr 3, 4-5PM What’s Important in Service? Apr 17, 4-5PM Havener – Turner Travel Grant & Mini-Sabbatical presentations May 1, 4-5PM Havener – Missouri Promotion & Tenure at Missouri S&T (parallel tenure-track and non-tenure track sessions)

?? Your goals, questions and concerns What do you hope to get out of the forum series? ??