Developing An Excellent Education Plan for your Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Proposal

• What part of your research do you hope to infuse into your education plan?

• What audience are you targeting? How will you recruit them?

• What efforts on campus can you connect with to improve the success and impact of your efforts?

• What are your specific and feasible implementation plans?

• What are your objectives and expected outcomes?• How will you evaluate your success?

Agenda

Introductions and Overview: Chris Pfund

Overview of CAREER award: Trina McMahon  

Example of successful CAREER awards: Trina McMahon and Brian Pfleger

   Introduction to Campus Resources and Networking •Jane Harris Cramer, Institute for Biology Education•Sarah Miller, Madison Teaching and Learning for Excellence Program•Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center/ Interdisciplinary Education Group•Devin Wixon, Delta Program

Handouts

•Agenda•Working Document with Key Questions•Text from CAREER Proposal Call and the GPG•Representative and Example Broader Impact Activities •List of Past UW-Madison CAREER Recipients•NSF-Supported Initiatives at UW-Madison•Research Experiences for Undergraduates at UW-Madison•Information on Research Data Services and Resource Sharing•Evaluation Survey

• What part of your research do you hope to infuse into your education plan?

• What audience are you targeting? How will you recruit them?

• What efforts on campus can you connect with to improve the success and impact of your efforts?

• What are your specific and feasible implementation plans?

• What are your objectives and expected outcomes?• How will you evaluate your success?

Note that your proposal leverages off major NSF investments in UW

Note that your proposal leverages off existing initiatives at UW and stress you are not starting from scratch

Use the Resources at UW to help you build your proposal (i.e. Libraries, Data Services)

Institute for Biology Education

Madison Teaching and Learning for Excellence Program

Interdisciplinary Education Group

CIRTL/Delta Internship Program Achievement Gap Program Research Mentor Training

Libraries, Data Services

Center for the Integration of Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and LearningResearch, Teaching and Learning

What is CIRTL about?What is CIRTL about?

Preparing UWPreparing UW graduate students and post-docsgraduate students and post-docs

for for

successful careerssuccessful careers that integratethat integrate

forefront researchforefront researchandand

superb teaching and learningsuperb teaching and learning

The Delta Program in The Delta Program in Research, Teaching and LearningResearch, Teaching and Learning

Delta Program OfferingsDelta Program Offerings

Propose and request funding to support the participation of members of your research team in the Delta Program

Courses, programs, and internships will provide you with opportunities to implement your ideas effectively and permanently into the institution

Disseminate through the Delta and/or the CIRTL Network – now at 23 institutions.

See: Mathieu et al. 2009. Leveraging the NSF Broader-Impacts Criterion for Change in STEM Education. Change, May/June 2009 Vol 41 p50-55.

Leveraging Existing Capacity

Develop Classroom Materials: Delta IMD Course

Graduate student or post-doc (and you) participate in a Delta course such as Instructional Materials Development

Together you develop materials to enhance student learning in your course

Together you implement the materials and assess their effectiveness

Disseminate materials through the CIRTL Network

Budget for graduate student/ post-doc time

Focus on Diversity Issues: Achievement Gap Program

You participate in a discussion group about the achievement gap

Partner with a graduate student or post-doc who has taken a class on diversity in Delta

Together you develop an approach to narrow the achievement gap in one of your courses

Together you implement the approach and assess its effectiveness

Budget for graduate student/ post-doc time

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Mentoring Undergraduates

You plan to bring students from diverse backgrounds into your research group through existing undergraduate research programs

You (and the graduate student or post-doc) who will mentor the undergraduate participate in research mentor training

You assess the experience of the undergraduate and you build capacity for effective mentors on your team

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Post-Doc Mentoring Plans

If you involve any post-docs in your budget, you must include a post-doc mentoring plan

Engagement in Delta or other such programs contributes to their overall professional development

Your involvement in mentor training shows your commitment to them having a good experience

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Post-Doc Mentoring Plans

If you involve any post-docs in your budget, you must include a post-doc mentoring plan

Engagement in Delta or other such programs contributes to their overall professional development

Your involvement in mentor training shows your commitment to them having a good experience

Leveraging Existing Capacity: Delta Internship Program

Your graduate student/post-doc uses a Delta internship to implement and assesses your proposed project, and/or

Increase your capacity by partnering with Delta interns associated with the program

Link to resources for research on teaching and learning for STEM and SBE ◦Suggested education article databases ◦Journals that publish teaching research by discipline ◦Books ◦Online resources

               Connect with librarians familiar with researching teaching and learning

who are eager to help you     

Library-Research Guides- Education-Teaching and Learning: LibraryWeblink

NSF requires a data management plan:Data storageData formatsData management

See http://researchdata.wisc.edu/make-a-plan/nsf-data-plans4/

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