Writing Across the Core Curriculum
November 6

The Department of English and Center for Teaching Excellence will host a symposium event on "Writing Across the English CORE Curriculum." This symposium will feature a series of presentations by instructors of introductory English and Comparative Literature courses who will share their best practices for incorporating writing into literature classrooms.

Innovative practices currently being utilized in 100 and 200 level courses include using blogs and twitter to create communities of writers and employing creative writing techniques to teach literary analysis. There will be three sessions as part of the event beginning at 12:45 in Tawes 3250. A welcome lunch in Tawes 3248 precedes the symposium.

All members of the English Department and the larger UMD teaching community are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please see the attached schedule for session titles, times, and locations. This symposium has been made possible through funding provided by the English Department and a CTE Teaching Assistant Development Grant. If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Jennie Wellman or Heather Brown.

A complete tentative schedule is available here: http://www.english.umd.edu/news/department-news/tawes-will-host-writing-across-the-english-core-curriculum.

2010 CTE Teaching Portfolio Retreat
Application Deadline: December 4

If you plan to teach at the university level, you will need a statement of teaching philosophy and a teaching portfolio. Starting Monday, November 9, CTE will begin accepting applications to participate in one of two two-and-a-half-day teaching portfolio retreats for graduate teaching assistants. The first Graduate Teaching Assistant Portfolio Retreat will be held January 11-13. The second Graduate Teaching Assistant Portfolio Retreat will be held January 19-21. Each retreat is limited to 12 participants. Applicants will be selected on the basis of the following criteria: timeliness, teaching experience, and strength of application materials.

The deadline for submitting an application is Friday, December 4. We expect to announce acceptance decisions by mid-December. For further information, please visit CTE’s website at http://www.cte.umd.edu or contact Dave Eubanks at eubankd@umd.edu. .

Lilly-East 2010 - Submit a Proposal
Proposal deadline: January 18, 2010

The Lilly-East Conference on College and University Teaching will be held in College Park, Maryland, June 3 – 5, 2010. It will include 3 days of stimulating workshops and sessions presented by college and university instructors from throughout the United States.

The overarching theme for Lilly 2010 is Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning. The call to submit proposals is now open and will close on Monday, January 18, 2010. Please visit http://lillyconferences.com/dc/proposals.shtml to propose a conference session.

CTE traditionally provides travel grants to fully support conference attendance and accommodation to dozens of participants from the University of Maryland College Park. This year CTE will again offer conference grants to faculty and graduate students who present at the conference.

CTE encourages you to submit an abstract to Lilly-East by January 18, and to watch for our announcement of conference grants.

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