The program thus provides a variety of opportunities to enhance your knowledge of and skills in teaching. At the monthly program workshops, you will work with master teachers at the University of Minnesota who will model and teach about a variety of effective pedagogical styles and methods. The small group meetings provide a supportive community of peers with whom to share and develop new ideas for use in the classroom. To provide a comfortable environment for talking about teaching, each small group is interdisciplinary, so that neither the RT nor your small group peers will be from your academic field. The Program is designed to place limited burdens on your time while providing substantial benefits for your teaching.
Participants learn how to be more effective and efficient as teachers.
Many faculty participants have found that the program makes teaching more fun and less stressful. In addition, department heads or deans are asked to release participants from some service obligations during the academic year of participation. You can either register on-line for the next program by clicking the link below, or you may select the print button once you are at the registration site and print a copy to send in at a later date. You may need to have Acrobat Reader installed in your web browser to use this function. Departments and colleges have been extremely supportive of faculty applications, expanding the ability of the Bush Early Career Faculty Program to fund innovative and important work addressing diversity at the University.