Information for First Year Instructors
The First Year Instructors page is posted by the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming (UAAP) to provide curricular support to the Freshman Science Core and instructors of other subjects with heavy freshman enrollment.
We hope this site will facilitate better communication among the First Year Instructors by providing a centralized place where you can find important information related to the first year curriculum. Here, you’ll find links to information about the current term’s first-year instructors and subjects, quiz dates for freshman subjects, and other timely information, including meetings with the Dean for Undergraduate Education.
We are currently linking this page from the information for Freshman Advisors. You might be interested to look through the information and advice we provide to freshman advisors and to the Class of 2013 .
The UAAP contact person for curricular support is Donna Friedman, Assistant Dean, Freshman Advising and Academic Services, friedman@mit.edu, x3-9762. She looks forward to hearing from you if you have questions, comments, or suggestions on how we might better provide advice to freshmen and advisors.
This page contains information on the following topics:
Click on one of the links above to jump to more information on the subject of interest to you.
List of Fall 2009 Freshman Lecturers
This link includes names and contact information for your fellow freshman instructors.
Schedule of Fall 2009 Quiz Dates
In collaboration with the Schedules Office, the UAAP coordinates and disseminates the Fall and Spring quiz dates to instructors, students, and freshman advisors.
Coordination is important to minimize multiple quizzes scheduled on the same day and to better facilitate room scheduling. Click here for the schedules of Fall 2009 quizzes.
Meetings of First Year Lecturers
The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming coordinates regular meetings of Freshman Science Core lecturers and Daniel Hastings, Dean for Undergraduate Education, and guests to enhance communication of common educational goals for first-year students.
For this coming semester, we are in process of arranging a meeting to discuss academic values and ethics. Our guests will be Prof. Mary Rowe and Ms. Toni Robinson of the Ombuds Office. Details will be announced by early September.
Learning Strategies Website
The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming sponsors a learning strategies site to help students at all levels strengthen their learning skills. Visit the Learning to Learn site to explore all of the available resources.
Learning Strategies Workshops
UAAP also sponsors a series of learning strategies workshops. The full schedule is posted on the Learning to Learn site.
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