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Making Your Work Plan Work for You Spring Faculty Workshop 2014 The VITAL Team • Cynthia Rutz – Faculty Development • Jen Gregory – Instructional Design • Jodie Reminder – Instructional Technology Work Plan Background • WPs in place since last spring • VITAL did not create them • BUT this year we realized that we could help faculty use WPs to their advantage Tips for Not Making This Hard on Yourself • Make your wish list and then cut it in half • Focus on what will make the greatest impact on your career goals • Different career stages call for different areas of focus • Only pick 1-2 goals for each category • Use things you already plan on doing like attending conferences or redesigning a course you already teach Where Do Goals Come From? • What are you actually working on? • What do your course and peer evaluations say? • What are your peers doing that you admire? • What you feel you need to add to your teaching? • What is boring you/frustrating you in your teaching? What can you do instead? • What are you passionate about? What do you feel is lacking on our campus that you think we need? • Look for problems…not solutions. Keep Things Small • Each year’s goals will build on the previous year’s goals. – Don’t redo an entire class, redo a few lectures or activities. – Don’t write an entire book in one year, focus on a chapter or section at a time. How Can We Help • You don’t have to do this alone: use VITAL and other campus resources to help, for example: – Teaching Goal: Improve class discussions – Action Step: meet with Jen Gregory to brainstorm solutions (work through the Instructional Design Process) How Can We Help • Another Example: – Scholarship/Creative Work Goal: polish up and submit an article this summer – Action Step: Attend summer writing circle and workshop the whole article How Can We Help • Another Example: – Professional Development Goal: I want to learn more about how my students learn – Action Step: Join Kieth Carlson’s FLC on Applying Memory Science to the Classroom How Can We Help • Another Example: – Campus Citizenship Goal: citizenship off campus: partner with a local business to give your students real-life work experience – Action Step: Work with Elizabeth Lynn, Director of Leadership and Service to identify and introduce you to a good local partner How Can We Help • Another Example: – Campus Citizenship Goal: Oncampus: use your passion: To make campus more welcoming to diverse populations – Action Step: To partner with another faculty member to work on this, example: Liz Wuerfel and Allison Schutte create The Welcome Project For More Help Please contact the VITAL team at [email protected].