Faculty Teaching Institute, June 2025
WIFI INFO AND SHUTTLE AVAILABILITY TBA
Day 1: Wednesday, June 25 |
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Time (ET) |
Session(s) |
Shuttle availability |
07:30 - 08:30 |
Working Breakfast |
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08:30 - 9:15 |
Welcome to the FTI! |
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9:15 - 9:45 |
Team agreements |
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9:45 - 10:00 |
Stretch break (15 min) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Your career: Imagining your role |
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10:30 - 12:00 |
Experiencing active learning |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
Welcome from society leaders |
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12:15 - 01:30 |
Working Lunch |
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01:30 - 03:00 |
Who you are and how you teach |
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03:00 - 03:45 |
Foundations: Lesson design |
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03:45 - 04:15 |
Snack break (30 min) |
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04:15 - 05:15 |
Reflection, Q&A, and action planning |
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05:15 - 06:00 |
Unscheduled time |
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06:00 - 07:00 |
FTI Hosted Working Dinner |
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Day 2: Thursday, June 26 |
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Time (ET) |
Session(s) |
Shuttle availability |
07:30 - 08:30 |
Working Breakfast |
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08:30 - 08:45 |
Welcome to day 2! |
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08:45 - 09:00 |
PhysPort can help! |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Teaching: Information delivery and individual work (5 min break) |
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09:35 - 10:20 |
Teaching: Whole class discussions |
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10:20 - 10:35 |
Stretch break (15 min) |
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10:35 - 11:35 |
Teaching: Think-pair-share (5 min break) |
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11:40 - 12:30 |
Teaching: Quantitative problem solving |
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12:30 - 01:30 |
Working Lunch |
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01:30 - 02:30 |
Formative assessment |
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02:30 - 03:00 |
Reflecting on your teaching |
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03:00 - 03:15 |
Snack break (30 min) |
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03:30 - 04:15 |
Action teams |
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04:15 - 05:15 |
Reflection, Q&A, and action planning |
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05:15 - 06:30 |
Unscheduled time |
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06:30 - 08:00 |
Dinner on your own |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
FTI lounge (optional) Location: TBD |
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Day 3: Friday, June 27 |
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Time (ET) |
Session(s) |
Shuttle availability |
07:30 - 08:30 |
Working Breakfast |
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08:00 - 08:15 |
Welcome to day 3! |
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08:15 - 9:45 |
Teaching: Collaborative learning with worksheets |
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09:45 - 10:00 |
Stretch break (15 min) |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Teaching: Common questions about group work |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
First day and student engagement |
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12:00 - 01:00 |
Working Lunch |
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01:00 - 02:00 |
Teaching inclusively |
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02:00 - 03:00 |
Summative assessment |
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03:00 - 03:30 |
Snack break (30 min) |
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03:30 - 04:45 |
Daily reflection, Q&A, and action planning |
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04:45 - 06:30 |
Unscheduled time |
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06:30 - 08:00 |
Dinner on your own |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Tenure and promotion discussion (optional) |
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Day 4: Saturday, June 28 |
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Time (ET) |
Session(s) |
Shuttle availability |
07:30 - 08:30 |
Working Breakfast |
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08:30 - 08:45 |
Welcome to the final day of the FTI! |
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08:45 - 09:45 |
Your career: Doing your role well |
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09:45 - 09:55 |
Break (10 min) |
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09:55 - 10:25 |
Pulling it all together: Course, unit, and lesson design |
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10:25 - 11:10 |
Reflection, Q&A, and action planning |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
Snack break (10 min) |
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11:20 - 12:05 |
Action planning |
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12:05 - 12:20 |
Final words |
Hotel Address:
The Hotel at UMD
7777 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD 20740
Phone: (301) 277-7777
Please note that the hotel guest rooms and the meeting space are not under the same roof. Participants will take a shuttle from The Hotel to the Anacostia Building (the American Center for Physics). A shuttle schedule will be available closer to the event.
Your room expenses (except for incidentals) will be paid directly by our NSF grant, along with all breakfast and lunch expenses. You will make your hotel reservation through a link provided to you. Room reservations will be at The Hotel at UMD.
Workshop Location Address:
The Anacostia Building (American Center for Physics)
One Physics Ellipse Dr College Park, MD 20740
Those of you who need any assistance with your travel plans should email info-fti at aps dot org for assistance. The email address has been obscured to make harvesting more difficult. Please remove spaces and replace "at" with @.
There are three airports near The Hotel. To reach the hotel, you can opt for taxis, Uber, Lyft, or the Metro. Metrobus and Metro line information is on the WMATA website.
For those using a car, The Hotel has a parking garage. The Anacostia Building follows the University of Maryland’s parking policies for Parking Lot Z.
Maryland and the DC area are usually quite humid in the summer months. Please expect to drink extra water during the workshop than you might expect. Further, if you intend to spend time outside on the physics ellipse, be prepared to ward off mosquitoes and gnats and check for ticks. Deer ticks are more common in Maryland than some parts of the country, smaller than other species of tick, and carry risk for disease.
Please come prepared with a device that you can easily type on (e.g., laptop or tablet with keyboard). There will also be a binder and other materials provided to you that you may want to account for when determining the size of your luggage. Finally, casual dress will be appropriate for the FTI. Meeting rooms may be a bit cool, so you may wish to bring a light sweater or equivalent.
Casual dress will be appropriate for the Faculty Teaching Institute.