Adjunct Faculty Retreat

Fall 2013: Adjunct Retreat

Wednesday, August 14, 6pm–9pm (Nuts-and-Bolts)
Thursday, August 15, 1pm–4pm (Nuts-and-Bolts)

For general pedagogy issues, please make an individual appointment with Eric.Main@ucf.edu.

The Adjunct Retreat is held on the
Orlando campus in
Classroom Building-1, Room 205

To register, please send the following information to fctl@ucf.edu:
1. Your name
2. Your department
3. Which date you'd like to attend

We will confirm acceptance into the program a few weeks before the semester begins. Call or email the Faculty Center if you have questions.

We hold training sessions for adjunct faculty once per semester, covering both nuts-and-bolts (rosters, legal matters, syllabi) and more general pedagogy (how to hold effective and interesting lectures, increase student engagement, and build courses that are balanced and aligned between goals, objectives, assignments, and teaching practice).

The retreat is either a three hour (nuts-and-bolts) or eight hour event (including more in-depth pedagogical topics) with an hour set aside for lunch on your own.

List of Topics Discussed

  • Introduction to Campus Resources
  • Course Design, Goals & Objectives, Syllabi, Lesson Plans
  • Cheating, Plagiarism, and Disruptive Conduct
  • The Diverse Classroom Environment: Learning Styles
  • Instructional Methodologies, Assessment Techniques, PowerPoint, Webcourses@UCF Grades
  • Group work, PBL, Collaboration

Attendance is limited to forty participants, so please register early.

 

In addition to the Saturday Retreat, adjuncts are encouraged to explore our page of resources for adjuncts.

 

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