Leader time line: preparing for the workshop

By April 5, 2013:

• Submit your career profile. As an example, here is Rachel's profile from last year. Please use the leader profile web submission form to submit your career profile.

By May 16:

• Fill in the relevant portions of the registration form: personal information, travel and lodging, teaching and research interests, and the research and workshop product releases (toward the end of the form).
• Fill out the Cutting Edge workshop leader information form'.

• Make and inform us of your travel plans. For information on travel options and arrival and departure times, see the travel and logistics page.. Please plan to arrive on July 6, so that you will be able to attend the leader meeting on July 7 (9 am - 2 pm). We will reimburse your travel costs and cover the cost of your lodging and meals. If you would like us to purchase your tickets, please contact Kathy O'Brien (klobri@wm.edu).

Between now and June 17:

• Plan your workshop sessions. In some cases, this means planning your session with others. Please contact Heather if you want to talk through ideas as you develop your session. For your sessions, you will want to provide a balance of sharing your expertise and providing opportunities for participant engagement and learning from other participants.
• Model effective pedagogy. Participant evaluations tell us that our most successful workshop sessions are those taught with good pedagogy in mind and that our least successful sessions are those where a presenter simply stands up and talks. As you plan your sessions, please consider incorporating active learning techniques. These will help the session to be interactive and will model effective teaching for participants.
• Engage participants actively during the workshop. Nothing is less effective than a workshop where participants do not participate. Ways of engaging participants include small and large group discussions, short problem-solving tasks, reviewing and/or trying out activities, scheduled thinking and writing time, and so forth.
• Plan your sessions thoroughly - maybe even minute-by-minute. Good sessions that appear to flow spontaneously reflect extensive planning by leaders, a clear understanding of the session and its objectives, and realistic planning for how long activities will really take. Please take care to plan time for questions at the end, and to fit into the specified time for the session.

• Upload your presentations and/or handouts so that we can link them to the workshop website. We generally put presentations and/or handouts in workshop notebooks (for participants to refer to or write on during the sessions). If you have a preference for what to include (or what not to include) in the notebook for your sessions, please indicate that on the upload form. If you include a PowerPoint presentation, we will print it at 6 slides per page. If you provide a long handout, reference list or something similar, it will probably work best to have that available online (rather than copying for the workshop notebook). We also post your presentations and handouts on the workshop program page unless you indicate otherwise. These are especially valuable for concurrent sessions, where participants cannot attend all of the sessions.

• Arrive in Boulder. Check in to your room.

• Optional: meet and go to breakfast together before meeting starts (details provided later)
• Leader meeting: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. We'll review the program, discuss specific sessions, plan transitions, and answer questions about the schedule. Goal would be to finish by lunch with time for leaders to discuss co-led sessions with other leaders after lunch or have a break.
• Optional sessions begin at 2:15 pm, with a meet and greet reception and ice-breaker at 5:30, dinner at 6:00, and then the evening program at 7:00 pm.