When you have successfully completed this program, you will be able to:

A. Manage your career as a faculty member at UIUC
B. Explore answers to these three questions:

1. What do we want our students to be able to do?
2. How can we help them do it?
3. How do we know if they can do it?

C. Participate in a culture of dialog, and a network of both formal and informal faculty support.

More specifically, at the end of this program, you will be better able to:

• Build a research program, including choosing research directions, managing your laboratory and students, acquiring and managing funding
• Mentor students and be mentored by senior faculty colleagues·
• Develop a personal mission statement and personal development plan for strategic planning and to guide your actions
• Manage your time and stress, including special considerations for female and racial minority faculty
• Use strategies to help make your work more effective, efficient, and fun
• Integrate the research/teaching/service dimensions of your job
• Develop an effective syllabus
• Construct and use lesson plans
• Approach the first day of class with confidence
• Construct learning objectives that are appropriate, student-centered, and measurable
• Use learning objectives in ways that direct student learning
• Adapt instruction to allow for a variety of student learning styles
• Design instruction which is inclusive and appreciates diversity in the classroom
• Understand student needs and motivation and thereby modify your teaching
• Apply learning theory and development models in your courses and in dialoging with students
• Use effective speaking skills, classroom dialog management, and question and discussion techniques to deliver lectures.
• Foster teamwork, team building, and communication skills via cooperative learning and other techniques
• Involve students actively in the learning process
• Interact constructively and fairly with women and racial minority students
• Develop effective exams, quizzes, homework, lab assignments, writing assignments, and other grading tools that are consistent with course objectives
• Prevent and deal with cheating
• Ensure fair evaluation of student performance
• Deal effectively with "problem students"
• Evaluate your own teaching performance and identify strengths as well as needs and opportunities for improvement
• Feel positive and energized about teaching, about the workshop, and about being a faculty member at UIUC.

We welcome your suggestions for other goals and objectives that would help you succeed as a member of the faculty.