August 15, 2014
NATIONAL EFFECTIVE TEACHING INSTITUTE (NETI-1A)
JDQXDU\ 3-5, 2015
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel
701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Dear Colleague:
I am pleased to announce the 27th National Effective Teaching Institute, to be held January 3-5, 2015, at the
Intercontinental Hotel in Austin, Texas. Rebecca Brent, Richard Felder, Michael Prince, and NETI Fellow Milo
Koretsky will lead the workshop. Topics to be covered are listed on the accompanying outline.
The twenty-six previous NETI programs have reached 1370 participants from 247 different schools. In their final
evaluations, the responding participants have given the workshop 951 "Excellent" ratings, 253 "Good," 9
"Average," 1 "Fair," and 1 "Poor" rating. You may obtain additional information about the workshop by going to
< http://www.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching >
and clicking on the “National Effective Teaching Institute” link on the home page.
Participants this year will include 50 faculty members from all branches of engineering and engineering
technology. The registration fee is $1150 per participant, which covers organization and presentation costs,
participant notebooks (reprints and supplementary notes), breakfasts, lunches, and breaks. Attendees' institutions
are expected to cover the participants' expenses for transportation, lodging, and one meal per day.
You are invited to nominate up to two of your faculty members for this workshop. (Note that we are sending this
invitation to both deans and associate deans for academics, so those two individuals should coordinate their
nominations.) Candidates must have had at least one semester of college teaching experience by January 2015 and
should have a full-time appointment for the 2014-2015 academic year. We present some material oriented to
relatively new faculty members, and other material designed to equip good experienced faculty members to
become teaching leaders and mentors on their campuses. Nominations in both categories are encouraged, ideally
one of each.
Please return a copy of the enclosed registration form and a check for $1150 made out to ASEE/NETI for each
nominee as quickly as possible. We accept nominations on a first-come, first-served basis, and have had to turn
nominees down almost every year. We will contact your nominees directly by e-mail to give them further details
about the NETI. If your institution's policies make it difficult for you to prepay the $1150, have the nominees send
a personal check made out to ASEE/NETI. We will issue a receipt so your institution may reimburse them.
We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions, please call Grace Hill at ASEE headquarters
(202) 350-5760 or via email ([email protected]).
Sincerely,
Grace Hill
Meetings Manager
(202) 350-5760
NATIONAL EFFECTIVE TEACHING INSTITUTE (NETI-1A)
January 3-5, 2015
Austin, Texas
Rebecca Brent, Co-Director | Education Designs, Inc.
Richard Felder, Co-Director |North Carolina State University
Michael Prince, Co-Director | Bucknell University
Milo Koretsky, NETI Fellow| Oregon State University
NETI-1 has several goals. Most obviously, it is intended to give the participants information and some hands-on
practice in elements of effective teaching. It is also intended to provide new faculty with tips on getting their
careers off to a good start and experienced faculty with instructional materials and methods that they can use in
faculty development and new faculty mentoring programs on their own campuses. Participants will be given
opportunities throughout the workshop to plan applications of those techniques in a course they teach.
Day 1: 8:30 am–4:30 pm
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Workshop preview and introductions.
How students learn, how teachers teach, and what often goes wrong (learning and teaching styles).
Writing learning objectives and using them to guide course planning, instructional design, and
assessment of learning.
Writing a syllabus and specifying course policies.
Assessment of learning: Designing quantitative tests that are rigorous but fair. Assessing written
and oral project reports efficiently, effectively, and fairly. Course grading.
Crisis clinic.
Day 2: 8:30 am–4:30 pm
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Making the first week of a course effective: setting policies and mutual expectations and
motivating students’ interest in learning the course content.
Lecturing effectively.
Getting students actively engaged in class, even if there are 200 of them in the room
(active learning).
Using inductive teaching methods (inquiry-based, problem-based learning, and project- based
learning) to promote conceptual understanding.
Breakout sessions
 Getting your faculty career off to a good start
 Promoting effective teaching on your home campus
Crisis clinic.
Day 3: 8:30 am–3:00 pm
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Topic selected by the NETI Fellow
Crisis clinic
Final course planning exercise
Wrap-up
2015 national effective teaching institute
Intercontinental Hotel, Austin, TX | January 3-5, 2015
Fax or mail this form to:
Fax: (202) 265-8504, ATTN: Grace Hill or Mail: ASEE/NETI 2015, 1818 N Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036
Nomination Information
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The nominating dean agrees to provide a registration fee of $1150 plus transportation and living expenses for the nominee.
Registration must be received at ASEE headquarters by Friday, November 14, 2014, Registrations will not be accepted
without payment. Refunds are available until three weeks before the workshop.
Up to 50 nominations will be accepted on a first-come, first served basis.
No more than two nominations will be accepted from a single campus.
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ATTN: Grace Hill ASEE/NETI 2015
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