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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear Faculty:
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The next NSM Faculty Development Workshop is scheduled for
<b>Thursday, September 29, </b>from <b>11:30 am – 12:45 pm</b> in <b>Agnes Arnold, Room 2.
</b>Lunch will be provided; please RSVP using the link below. A flyer is attached. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Topic: “Inquiry Based Learning: Mathematics and Beyond”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Presenter:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dr. Michael Starbird</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Professor, University of Texas-Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Methods of instruction called Inquiry Based Learning emphasize what the students are doing. Students prove theorems
on their own and present their results to their peers. Expected outcomes for students include their developing theorem-proving skills and the ability to tell whether a proof is correct or flawed. But beyond those mathematical skills, an Inquiry Based Learning
experience frequently helps students to learn self-reliance, independent thinking, creativity, and willingness to make mistakes. Those habits can change lives permanently in every area of their experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">RSVP:
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-faculty3"><span style="color:#F68D14;background:white">www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-faculty3</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">I hope you will join us
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">on September 29<span style="color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Donna Pattison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Donna L. Pattison, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Instructional Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Affairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biology and Biochemistry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">713-743-2642<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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