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What do you absolutely have to know to get through your first 100 days?
| Getting Started |
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- Introduce yourself to all faculty and staff in your department
- Try to attend at least one-two workshops or lectures in your department, college or at university level during the semester
- Invite one new faculty member that you met at orientation to lunch
- Ask a lot of questions and maintain good humor
- Work with your department administrator to find a mentor
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- Use the Center for Teaching Innovation [http://www.its2.uidaho.edu/cti/] to help you design and develop your course website and use educational technology
- Consult with Librarians early in the semester to support student research projects
- Invite colleagues to visit your class and comment on your teaching
- Attend a colleague's class and follow up with a discussion about methods of evaluating students, grading, stimulating class discussion, etc.
| Research |
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- Schedule specific time during the week for research, and don't give that time away
- Attend faculty presentations on research
- Seek grants and opportunities to present scholarly work at conferences
- Meet with colleagues in your department, discipline and through interdisciplinary activities, and those you met at orientation and ask them to discuss their research and how they got started
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- Meet with your department administrator to discuss criteria and expectations for promotion and tenure, annual reviews, and position descriptions
- Ask mentors and colleagues to clarify retention and tenure guidelines, evaluations procedures and expectations in your department.
- Keep a teaching portfolio with all class materials, assignments, syllabi, and exams
- Save supportive emails, letters of thanks, and memos from students and colleagues
- Keep a file of all service activities, both to the university and profession
- Review the department's teaching evaluation forms and understand the criteria for evaluating teaching and advising
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