Friday Workshop: Writing a Socratic Teaching Portfolio
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
A Socratic Portfolio process guides graduate students as they move through their graduate programs. This session provides a useful framework to follow as you develop your philosophy of teaching and learning.

October 9

Friday Forum: Directed Discovery for the “Aha!” Moments in Teaching and Learning
Derek Reamon, Co-Director, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, Engineering
The reason I’ve always been interested in teaching is that I’ve always been interested in learning. Anything that I’ve really learned well, I ended up teaching first. The teaching (and learning) technique that excites me most is ‘directed discovery.’ The goal is to drive students toward the ‘aha moment’ in a hands-on setting, where the theory they’ve been barraged with finally makes sense in a real and practical way.

October 16

Friday Forum: The Tenure Process and the Research-Teaching Balance: Perspectives of
an Untenured Professor
Will Medlin, Site Director, Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, Assistant Professor and ConocoPhillips Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Will Medlin, an assistant professor who recently applied for tenure, will discuss how the university tenure and promotion process generally works, strategies for balancing teaching and research as a junior faculty member, and his personal observations on life starting out on the tenure track.

October 30

Friday Workshop: Funding Your Work: Grants and Grant Writing (Part II)
Ginna Sanprie, University Outreach, Office of Contracts and Grants
Grants are an invaluable resource for graduate students and faculty in all academic fields, but navigating the world of grant funding can be intimidating. Learn how to connect your work to funding opportunities, locate funding sources, use valuable resources, and tackle the world of grant writing. (Part II of a two-part series on grants and the university. See Part I on the Monday Workshops schedule.)

November 6

Friday Workshop: Putting Your Teaching Portfolio Together
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Are you getting ready to go on the job market? Are you wondering how your portfolio
might compare with portfolios from other applicants? In this workshop we analyze and
compare portfolios.

November 13

Friday Forum: What’s the Difference Between an Advisor and a Graduate Mentor?
Joanne Belknap, Professor, Sociology
Have you ever wondered who you should ask to be your thesis or dissertation advisor and who you should ask to be your faculty mentor? If so, this workshop is for you.