Developing An Excellent Education Plan for your Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Proposal

Critical Elements of your Education Plan (pg 2) What part of your research do you hope to infuse into your education plan? What audience are you targeting? How will you recruit them? What efforts on campus can you connect with to improve the success and impact of your efforts? What are your specific and feasible implementation plans? What are your objectives and expected outcomes? How will you evaluate your success?

Agenda Introductions and Overview: Chris Pfund Overview of CAREER award: Trina McMahon Example of successful CAREER awards: Trina McMahon and Brian Pfleger Introduction to Campus Resources and Networking Jane Harris Cramer, Institute for Biology Education Sarah Miller, Madison Teaching and Learning for Excellence Program Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center/ Interdisciplinary Education Group Devin Wixon, Delta Program

Handouts Agenda Working Document with Key Questions Text from CAREER Proposal Call and the GPG Representative and Example Broader Impact Activities List of Past UW-Madison CAREER Recipients NSF-Supported Initiatives at UW-Madison Research Experiences for Undergraduates at UW-Madison Information on Research Data Services and Resource Sharing Evaluation Survey

Critical Elements of your Education Plan What part of your research do you hope to infuse into your education plan? What audience are you targeting? How will you recruit them? What efforts on campus can you connect with to improve the success and impact of your efforts? What are your specific and feasible implementation plans? What are your objectives and expected outcomes? How will you evaluate your success?

Leveraging Existing Capacity at UW  Note that your proposal leverages off major NSF investments in UW  Note that your proposal leverages off existing initiatives at UW and stress you are not starting from scratch  Use the Resources at UW to help you build your proposal (i.e. Libraries, Data Services)

Leveraging Existing Capacity at UW  Institute for Biology Education  Madison Teaching and Learning for Excellence Program  Interdisciplinary Education Group  CIRTL/Delta  Internship Program  Achievement Gap Program  Research Mentor Training  Libraries, Data Services

Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning

What is CIRTL about? Preparing UW graduate students and post-docs for successful careers that integrate forefront research and superb teaching and learning

The Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning

Delta Program Offerings

 Propose and request funding to support the participation of members of your research team in the Delta Program  Courses, programs, and internships will provide you with opportunities to implement your ideas effectively and permanently into the institution  Disseminate through the Delta and/or the CIRTL Network – now at 23 institutions.  See: Mathieu et al Leveraging the NSF Broader- Impacts Criterion for Change in STEM Education. Change, May/June 2009 Vol 41 p Leveraging Existing Capacity

Develop Classroom Materials: Delta IMD Course  Graduate student or post-doc (and you) participate in a Delta course such as Instructional Materials Development  Together you develop materials to enhance student learning in your course  Together you implement the materials and assess their effectiveness  Disseminate materials through the CIRTL Network  Budget for graduate student/ post-doc time

Focus on Diversity Issues: Achievement Gap Program  You participate in a discussion group about the achievement gap  Partner with a graduate student or post-doc who has taken a class on diversity in Delta  Together you develop an approach to narrow the achievement gap in one of your courses  Together you implement the approach and assess its effectiveness  Budget for graduate student/ post-doc time

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Mentoring Undergraduates  You plan to bring students from diverse backgrounds into your research group through existing undergraduate research programs  You (and the graduate student or post-doc) who will mentor the undergraduate participate in research mentor training  You assess the experience of the undergraduate and you build capacity for effective mentors on your team

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Post-Doc Mentoring Plans  If you involve any post-docs in your budget, you must include a post-doc mentoring plan  Engagement in Delta or other such programs contributes to their overall professional development  Your involvement in mentor training shows your commitment to them having a good experience

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Post-Doc Mentoring Plans  If you involve any post-docs in your budget, you must include a post-doc mentoring plan  Engagement in Delta or other such programs contributes to their overall professional development  Your involvement in mentor training shows your commitment to them having a good experience

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Delta Internship Program  Your graduate student/post-doc uses a Delta internship to implement and assesses your proposed project, and/or  Increase your capacity by partnering with Delta interns associated with the program

Teaching and Learning References  Link to resources for research on teaching and learning for STEM and SBE ◦ Suggested education article databases ◦ Journals that publish teaching research by discipline ◦ Books ◦ Online resources  Connect with librarians familiar with researching teaching and learning who are eager to help you  Library-Research Guides- Education-Teaching and Learning: LibraryWeblinkLibraryWeblink

Data Management Plans NSF requires a data management plan:  Data storage  Data formats  Data management See plan/nsf-data-plans4/ plan/nsf-data-plans4/ *See Nitrogen Card Game Example