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Join us at the Teaching Excellence Center for seminars, circles, and consulting to elevate your teaching skills. Discover new strategies, tips, and connect with faculty experts. Enhance your teaching experience with us!
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Welcome! Stephen F. Austin New Faculty Orientation Fall 2013
Teaching Excellence Center • Established January 2006 • Services: • Seminars related to teaching • Teaching Circles • New Faculty Development Series • Speaker Events • Teaching Tips emails • Individual Consultation • Classroom observation
Contacts for the TEC • TEC Website: http://www2.sfasu.edu/teachingexcellence/ • TEC Email: tec@sfasu.edu • TEC Phone: 468-1831 • TEC Offices: 2nd Floor Steen Library • TEC Associates: one representative from each college, the Library, and OIT
Teaching Excellence CenterLeadership John Moore Director Interim Chair, Biology
Associate Directors Norm Markworth Physics & Astronomy Leslie Cecil Social and Cultural Analysis dc
TEC Fellow Heather Olson-Beal Secondary Ed.
TEC and New Faculty Orientation • The New Faculty Orientation committee plans these fall orientation events and additional social events designed to help you become part of the SFA community
A Colleagues’ Survival Guide: Advice and Faculty Handbook • This guide is written by faculty for faculty. • Helpful pointers for SFA and community • A final version now available online (original guide combined with old Faculty Handbook). • www.sfasu.edu/facsenate/docs/faculty-handbook-survival-guide.pdf • Future versions will be updated by members of the Faculty Senate.
Seminars • Call on one or more faculty members to discuss topics of interest. • Clickers • Collaborative Learning • Undergraduate Research • Publishing • …and many more
Teaching Tips Email list • Receive teaching tips and short electronic articles (often with links to more complete information) • 1- 3 Tips per month • Join by signing the sheet today, or send Lesliean email (see your handout for her email address)
New Projects • Gems of SFA • Bill Arscott’s Cinematography • http://youtu.be/sNSU7D7a3TY • Legacy Project • Look for new web pages on these soon.
Thank you for your time! • If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us! • Your packet should contain a short summary sheet with contact information and web addresses. John: jmoore@sfasu.edu Norm: nmarkworth@sfasu.edu Leslie: cecillg@sfasu.edu Heather: olsonbehk@sfasu.edu